Arguably, no other institution has transformed the heart of Texas like the Lower Colorado River Authority. Born in the Great Depression of the 1930s, LCRA built a chain of dams and brought predictability to the cycles of extreme droughts and floods that had long plagued Austin and other communities. It also brought hydroelectric power and with that, modern-day civilization to the hard-scrabble regions of Central and South Texas.
With those achievements, and the support of powerful political leaders like Lyndon Johnson, LCRA for years was touted as one of the state s major success...