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Texas leaders create first new lakes since 1980s to accommodate booming population
By Brian Scott, Dallas UPDATED 1:39 PM CT SEP. 23, 2023
LADONIA, Texas — Ed Motley stands in the middle of
a large field, about an hour and a half northeast of Dallas, and looks on as heavy machinery pours concrete and workers build up the dirt embankments of the 16,000-acre construc-
tion site. What You Need To Know ● New lakes are being created in Texas for the first time since the 1980s ● The lakes will help to ac-
commodate the water needs of the state's booming population ● Lake Ralph Hall is one of two new lakes being created right now to service the booming population in the Dallas-
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Fort Worth area. The other, Lake Bois D’Arc, is already filling with water right now ● Most of Texas’s major lakes are built, not naturally occurring
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If you’ve ever wondered what it looks like to build a lake, he says this is just a glimpse. “They’ve been placing this concrete for about the last nine months,” said Motley, the project manager for Lake Ralph Hall. Nine months is just a small paragraph in the story of Motley’s lake, though. The longtime engineer first heard the name Lake Ralph Hall back around the turn of the millennium when he was tapped by state leaders to build a new lake for the Upper Trinity Water District – the district serving some of the fastest growing portions of the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Back in about the year 2000, Motley says leaders in the small community of Ladonia came to state leaders, including the late Rep. Ralph Hall, wanting to build a new lake to help bolster some interest in the town; the first new lake talked about in the state since Lake Ray Roberts filled in the early 1980s. “Sometimes it feels likes it’s been yesterday,” said Motley, remembering those early meetings that developed out the idea. “It’s been a very interesting ride.”
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