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Wood County dams completed
On this day in 1962, whether by accident or design, the dams of two
small Wood County lakes were completed. Lake Hawkins and Lake Winnsboro,
formed respectively by Wood County Dam No. 3 and Wood County Dam No. 4,
were both made for recreational and flood-regulation purposes.
Impoundment of water had begun in both lakes the same summer. Lake
Hawkins has a surface area of 776 acres; Lake Winnsboro, of 806 acres.
The new lakes joined the hundreds of other manmade reservoirs in Texas
that provide water for municipal use and irrigation, as well as the the
means for fishing, boating, swimming, water skiing, picnicking, and
other recreation. Such little county lakes are naturally dwarfed by
other impoundments, such as Lake Texoma (89,000 acres) and International
Falcon Reservoir (115,400 acres when it rains on the Rio Grande
watershed). Though these larger lakes provide some hydroelectric power
to the state, Texans have generally been forced to look elsewhere for
electricity, since rainfall in Texas is predictably unpredictable.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- LAKE HAWKINS
- LAKE WINNSBORO
- LAKE TEXOMA
- INTERNATIONAL FALCON RESERVOIR
- WATER POWER
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