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The Untold Story of the Lower Colorado River Authority (Hardcover)
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The Untold Story of the Lower Colorado River Authority (Hardcover)
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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 leaders like
Lyndon Johnson, LCRA for years was touted as one of the state's
major success stories. But LCRA has never been a stranger to
controversy, and while it continues to provide much of the energy
and water that fuels the economic engine of Austin and beyond, most
people know very little about LCRA. In this book, readers will
learn about the forces of nature and politics that combined to
create LCRA; the colorful personalities who operated, supported, or
fought with the agency; its spectacular successes, periodic
blunders, and occasional failures; and its evolution into one of
the largest public power organizations in Texas.
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