The Untold Story of the Lower Colorado River Authority (River Books, Sponsored by The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texa)
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (573 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1623493412 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Amazon Customer said Five Stars. The book looks great. Good work John!. Five Stars Very well written history of the LCRA.
He also provides the reader with a sense of the many new programs and issues related to LCRA since the late 1980’s. He tells a good story with occasional humor. On the whole, John Williams has produced a very readable story that provides his audience with a reliable, updated history of the LCRA.” —Thomas G. Mason, Former LCRA General Manager. “Among the many positive aspects of Williams’ draft is his strong narrative flow
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. 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. 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 blu