The Untold Story of the Lower Colorado River Authority

by John Williams and John Williams

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1623493412
• ISBN13: 9781623493417
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.7" x 11.2"