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Geography of Water

Canadian River Red River Pecos River Colorado River Brazos River Trinity River Sabine River Neches River Nueces River Rio Grande River Lavaca River Guadalupe River San Antonio River

Galveston Bay Matagorda Bay San Antonio Bay Aransas Bay Corpus Christi Bay Laguna Madre Bay

Eagle Mountain Reservoir Bridgeport Reservoir Lake Ray Roberts Lavon Lake Lewisville Lake Lake Ray Hubbard Possum Kingdom Lake Grapevine Lake Lake Tawakoni Eagle Mountain Reservoir Lake Worth Mountain Creek Lake Benbrook Lake Lake Arlington Joe Pool Lake Lake Granbury 20 Main Lakes and Reservoirs in the North Texas Area. The map above does not include Lake Texoma. Lake Pat Cleburne Bardwell Reservoir Cedar Creek Reservoir Richland Chambers Reservoir

Also…Lake Texoma One of the largest reservoirs in Texas Located on the Red River on the Texas-Oklahoma border 2015 Vortex 8 feet wide Construction completed in 1944 Hydroelectric turbine placed into operation in 1945

And…Caddo Lake Only natural lake in Texas (although artifically altered with a dam in the 1900s One of the largest flooded cypress forests in the U.S. Had the world’s first water oil platform, built in 1911 Home to bigfoot

Denton Pecan Creek - Main “creek” in Denton and wastewater route Lake Lewisville – Drinking water source and wastewater route Lake Ray Roberts – Drinking Water source