Inks Lake

The Inks Lake is a dammed from the Roy Inks Dam Lake in the County Llano and Burnet in the Texas Hill Country. His dam is located just 4 miles downstream from the much larger Lake Buchanan. The lake is one mentioned by six major Texas Highland Lakes reservoirs on the Colorado River, Texas, the Lower Colorado River Authority, it serves mainly as Nebensee for Lake Buchanan. Along with this is the Inks Lake is a pump storage power station with a pumping capacity of 840 cubic feet / s ( ~ 23.8 m / s). In addition, the Roy Inks Dam has a small - the smallest of all Texas Highland Lakes - hydroelectric generator with a rated output of 12,500 kW. Its water level is kept constant, as a rule, even during prolonged droughts, only during heavy floods it is also used as an additive reservoir. The dam was built in 1936-38, the production of electricity began in June 1938. Lake and dam are named after Roy B. Inks, a director of the board of the Lower Colorado River Authority.

State Park

Around the lake of Inks Lake State Park is located, it is 1201 acre ( ~ 4.9 km ²) in size and is used for recreation in the natural landscape. The area was purchased in 1940 by the Lower Colorado River Authority and made available to the public as a state park in 1950.

Swell

• Seth D. Breeding: Inks Lake, In: The Handbook of Texas Online, Texas State Historical Association ( TSHA ), 1999ff (English)
• Vivian Elizabeth Smyrl: Inks Lake State Park, In: The Handbook of Texas Online, Texas State Historical Association ( TSHA ), 1999ff (English)
• Cleo Lafoy Dovell and Behold D. Breeding: Buchanen Dam and Lake Buchanan in Report 46 - Dams and Reservoirs in Texas: . History and Descriptive Information, Texas Water Development Board, Austin, December 31, 1966, pp. 68ff, p 71 ( pdf ( version of 21 August 2010 at the Internet Archive ), 57.4 MB).