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  2. Magnolia, Texas - Wikipedia

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    GNIS feature ID. 1340838 [4] Sales tax. 8.25% [7] Website. cityofmagnolia.com. Magnolia is a city in southwestern Montgomery County, Texas, United States within the Houston metropolitan area. It is named for the magnolia trees that grow in the area. [8] The population was 2,359 at the 2020 census.

  3. List of dams and reservoirs in Texas - Wikipedia

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    Plunk Lake, Texas. Joe Pool Dam, Joe Pool Lake, USACE. Sam Rayburn Dam, Sam Rayburn Reservoir, USACE. Red Bluff Dam, Red Bluff Reservoir, Red Bluff Water Control District. Robert Lee Dam, E.V. Spence Reservoir, Colorado River Municipal Water District. Rio Vista Dam, unnamed reservoir, City of San Marcos, Texas.

  4. Fresh water supply district - Wikipedia

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    A fresh water supply district is a body which manages fresh water supply in a defined area in the United States. It may have the power of eminent domain. [1] The term fresh water supply district is mostly used in Texas, while water district is used in much of the rest of the United States. [2] [3] Fresh water supply districts were first ...

  5. Will Texas run out of groundwater? Experts explain how ... - AOL

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    August 1, 2022 at 6:48 AM. Water levels in wells across Texas are running low because of the extreme drought, groundwater experts say. Drought conditions in the state are getting worse by the week ...

  6. San Jacinto River (Texas) - Wikipedia

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    The San Jacinto River (/ ˌsæn dʒəˈsɪntoʊ / SAN jə-SIN-toh, Spanish pronunciation: [ˈri.o ˈsaŋ xaˈsinto]) flows through southeast Texas. It is named after Saint Hyacinth. In the past, it was home to the Karankawa [citation needed] and Akokisa tribes. The river begins with a west and east fork; the west fork begins in Walker County ...

  7. Buffalo Bayou - Wikipedia

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    Buffalo Bayou is a slow-moving body of water which flows through Houston in Harris County, Texas.Formed 18,000 years ago, it has its source in the prairie surrounding Katy, Fort Bend County, and flows approximately 53 miles (85 km) east through the Houston Ship Channel into Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. [2]

  8. The largest dam removal project in the US is completed – a ...

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    Rachel Ramirez, CNN. September 1, 2024 at 3:00 AM. The largest dam removal project in US history is finally complete, after crews last week demolished the last of the four dams on the Klamath ...

  9. Tarrant Regional Water Dist. v. Herrmann - Wikipedia

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    Tarrant Regional Water District v. Herrmann, 569 U.S. 614 (2013), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that Oklahoma statutes forbidding the export of water from the state are not preempted or forbidden by the Red River Compact .