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Amistad Dam. / 29.45028°N 101.05778°W / 29.45028; -101.05778. Amistad Dam ( Spanish: Presa la Amistad) is a major embankment dam across the Rio Grande between Texas, United States, and Coahuila, Mexico. Built to provide irrigation water storage, flood control, and hydropower generation, it is the largest dam along the international ...
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.
Top 25 water ports by tonnage. This is a list of ports of the United States, ranked by tonnage. Ports in the United States handle a wide variety of goods that are critical to the global economy, including petroleum, grain, steel, automobiles, and containerized goods. See the articles on individual ports for more information, including history ...
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 ...
Surface elevation. 301 ft (92 m) Falcon International Reservoir ( Spanish: Embalse Internacional Falcón ), commonly called Falcon Lake, is a reservoir on the Rio Grande 40 miles (64 km) southeast of Laredo, Texas, United States, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The huge lake is bounded by Starr and Zapata Counties on the Texas side of the ...
Dam vital for water storage faces long delay in renovation. Tribune. Scott Wyland, The Santa Fe New Mexican. June 15, 2024 at 11:34 PM. Jun. 15—A much-needed renovation of an aging dam that's ...
The U.S. state of Texas has a series of estuaries along its coast on the Gulf of Mexico, most of them bounded by the Texas barrier islands. Estuaries are coastal bodies of water in which freshwater from rivers mixes with saltwater from the sea. Twenty-one drainage basins terminate along the Texas coastline, forming a chain of seven major and ...
Experts explain how drought taps out water wells. Water levels in wells across Texas are running low because of the extreme drought, groundwater experts say. Drought conditions in the state are ...