Lower Colorado River Authority

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The Lower Colorado River Authority or LCRA was formed in 1934 by the Texas legislature. Its main concerns are conservation, electricity, and water.

The LCRA currently operates six hydroelectric dams along the Colorado River in the Central Texas area:

Buchanan Dam- creates Lake Buchanan
Inks Dam- creates Inks Lake
Wirtz Dam- creates Lake LBJ which is used as a cooling pond for the Thomas C. Ferguson Power Plant
Starcke Dam- creates Lake Marble Falls
Mansfield Dam- creates Lake Travis
Tom Miller Dam- creates Lake Austin

The LCRA operates other electrical generating facilities and reservoirs in the Colorado River basin, including:

Fayette County Reservoir - cools the Fayette Power Project (co-owned by Austin Energy and LCRA)
Lake Bastrop - cools the Sim Gideon Power Plant and the Lost Pines Power Project 1 (owned and operated by GenTex Power Corporation, a wholly owned affiliate of LCRA)

The LCRA also purchases electricity generated by wind power projects in West Texas.

LCRA distributes electricity to 43 wholesale customers via a network of over 3,700 miles of transmission lines.

External links

[Lower Colorado River Authority] web site

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