02613cam a2200301 4500 425465156 TxAuBib 20061108120000.0 130306s1990||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780890964262 0890964262 (OCoLC)21194772 TxAuBib Adams, John A. Damming The Colorado : The Rise of the Colorado River Authority, 1933-1939 1939 / John A. Adams, Jr. 1st Edition. College Station, TX : Texas A & M University Press, 1990. College Station, TX : Texas A & M University Press, 1990. 161 p : ill ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Before there was a Lower Colorado River Authority, the Colorado River cut across Central Texas free and unfettered by artificial structures. But the river could be unpredictable and dangerous. In the early years of the twentieth century there were numerous attempts to harness and develop the river. Some Texans desperately wanted private enterprise to achieve that goal, but the job proved to be larger than the resources of the private sector. What emerged in the mid-1930s was a cooperative federal-state approach that created controversy yet results.\\John Adams details the dynamics in the struggle of private interests and public institutions to cooperate in the taming of the Colorado. The Great Depression further constricted private capital available for large-scale reclamation projects, but the New Deal entered into the effort. With seasoned Texas politicians in Washington, millions of dollars in federal funds were channeled into the Lower Colorado River Authority. The Lower Colorado River Authority resulted in a system of dams, reservoirs, and hydroelectric power stations.\\Intensive research in primary documents, including four sets of presidential papers, and in state and national archives has enabled Adams to trace the development of the accord and relationships between private utility interests, conservationists, and politicians that finally dammed the Colorado and further cemented the precedent for federally funded water and reclamation projects in the West. 20061108. Lower Colorado River Authority History Texas. Water resources development Colorado River Region History Texas. Floods History Texas Colorado River Region. Texas History Lower Colorado River Authority. TXGID