There is a grand history to Austin’s lakes which traces back to the late 1930’s, when a nation and state struggling to pull itself out of the Great Depression enacted public infrastructure construction programs to build dams and extend electricity to rural areas. In 1936 the US Department of the Interior authorized the establishment of the Lower Colorado River Authority. On that shiny necklace called the Colorado River, several dams were built by the LCRA, which in addition to providing ...