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John T. Montford Dam, Lake Alan Henry, City of Lubbock. Lake Conroe Dam, Lake Conroe, City of Houston, San Jacinto River Authority. Lake Fork Dam, Lake Fork Reservoir, Sabine River Authority of Texas. Lake J.B. Thomas Dam, Lake J.B. Thomas, Colorado River Municipal Water District. Lavon Dam, Lake Lavon, USACE.
Buffalo Bayou is a slow-moving body of water which flows through Houston in Harris County, Texas. Formed 18,000 years ago, it has its source in the prairie surrounding Katy, Fort Bend County, and flows approximately 53 miles (85 km) east through the Houston Ship Channel into Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. [2]
The Ogallala Aquifer (oh-gə-LAH-lə) is a shallow water table aquifer surrounded by sand, silt, clay, and gravel located beneath the Great Plains in the United States. As one of the world's largest aquifers, it underlies an area of approximately 174,000 sq mi (450,000 km 2) in portions of eight states (South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas).
Clear Lake (Galveston Bay) / 29.57222°N 95.04361°W / 29.57222; -95.04361. Clear Lake is a brackish harbor located near Houston, Texas, U.S., in Harris County. The lake feeds Galveston Bay. It is bordered by Houston ( Clear Lake City ), Pasadena, League City, Clear Lake Shores, Taylor Lake Village, Seabrook and El Lago, Texas.
The National Inventory of Dams defines a major dam as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3). The following is a partial list of dams and reservoirs in the United States. There are an estimated 84,000 dams in the ...
10 feet (3.0 m) Settlements. Houston, Pasadena, League City, Baytown, Texas City, Galveston, La Porte, Seabrook, Anahuac. Galveston Bay ( / ˈɡælvɪstən / GAL-vis-tən) is a bay in the western Gulf of Mexico along the upper coast of Texas. It is the seventh-largest estuary in the United States, [2] and the largest of seven major estuaries ...
Located in the fourth-largest city in the United States, it is the busiest port in the U.S. in terms of foreign tonnage and the busiest in the U.S. in terms of overall tonnage. Though originally the port's terminals were primarily within the Houston city limits, the port has expanded to such a degree that today it has facilities in multiple ...
April 18, 2024 at 5:34 PM. A hack that caused a small Texas town’s water system to overflow in January has been linked to a shadowy Russian hacktivist group, the latest case of a U.S. public ...