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The Untold Story of the Lower Colorado River Authority

Hardcover • 2015 • 1. edition

The Untold Story of the Lower Colorado River Authority

By John Williams

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About the book

Arguably, no other institution has transformed the heart of Texas like the Lower Colorado River Authority. Born in the Great Depression of the 1930s, LCRA built a chain of dams and brought predictability to the cycles of extreme droughts and floods that had long plagued Austin and other communities. It also brought hydroelectric power-and with that, modern-day civilization-to the hard-scrabble regions of Central and South Texas.With those achievements, and the support of powerful political leade...Show more

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9781623493417

Publisher

Texas A & M University Press

Published year

2015

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1

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The Untold Story of the Lower Colorado River Authority

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Hardcover

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