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The Texas Geographic Information Office ( TxGIO) is a division of the Texas Water Development Board that maintains the geographic information system (GIS) of the government of Texas. It serves as the principal archive for natural resources data in the state. The Texas Geographic Information Officer servers as the director of TxGIO and also ...
Lewisville Lake. / 33.06917°N 96.96444°W / 33.06917; -96.96444. Lewisville Lake, formerly known as Garza-Little Elm Reservoir, is a reservoir in North Texas ( USA) on the Elm Fork of the Trinity River in Denton County near Lewisville. Originally engineered in 1927 as Lake Dallas, the reservoir was expanded in the 1940s and 1950s and ...
Water storage. Water storage is a broad term referring to storage of both potable water for consumption, and non potable water for use in agriculture. In both developing countries and some developed countries found in tropical climates, there is a need to store potable drinking water during the dry season. In agriculture water storage, water is ...
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 Clean Water Act was one of the United States' first and most influential modern environmental laws. Its laws and regulations are primarily administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in coordination with state governments, though some of its provisions, such as those involving filling or dredging, are administered by the ...
In 1996, the New Handbook of Texas was published, expanding the encyclopedia to six volumes and over 23,000 articles. In 1999, the Handbook of Texas Online went live with the complete text of the print edition, all corrections incorporated into the handbook's second printing, and about 400 articles not included in the print edition due to space ...
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Joe Pool Lake. / 32.62861°N 97.00528°W / 32.62861; -97.00528. Joe Pool Lake is a fresh water impoundment ( reservoir) located in the southern part of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex in North Texas. The lake encompasses parts of Tarrant, Dallas and Ellis counties. The lake measures 7,740 acres (31.3 km 2) with a conservation storage ...