Lake Meredith

Lake Meredith is a reservoir of the Canadian River in the north of the U.S. state of Texas. It was created after the completion of Sandford Dams in 1965 by the Bureau of Reclamation. The Canadian River was dammed in order to secure the supply of drinking water from eleven cities in the region, including Amarillo and Lubbock. In addition, the lake was planned as a recreational area. It is named today to Austin A. Meredith, a City Manager of Borger, who developed the concept for the dam and died two years before completion.

The water area is around 12 km ², the maximum water depth of 58 m and the total capacity of the lake 3 million cubic meters of water.

History

The recreation area around the lake was originally named after the dam reservoir Sandford and stood from the beginning under the administration of the National Park Service. 1972 lake and recreation area in honor of Austin A. Meredith in Lake Meredith Recreation Area have been renamed. Since 1990 the lake under the name of Lake Meredith National Recreation Area has been upgraded to a National Recreation Area. It includes some 180 square kilometers of the surrounding hills in the form of flat mesas with a, which are predominantly composed of prairie. Tourist facilities are three boat ramps and a marina. The recreational use is mainly in the motor boating and sailing, and fishing. The reservoir adjacent the Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument, which is managed by the Office of the National Park Service in Fritch, together with the National Recreation Area.