Joe Pool Lake

Local nameJoe Pool Lake
LocationGrand Prairie

Joe Pool Lake is a fresh water impoundment located in the southern part of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex in North Texas. The lake encompasses parts of Tarrant, Dallas and Ellis counties. The lake measures 7,740 acres with a conservation storage capacity of 176,900 acre feet. With a maximum depth of 75 feet the lake drains an area of 232 square miles.

Joe Pool Lake was named after Joe Pool, a congressman from the Oak Cliff area of Dallas who represented this district from 1967 until his death in 1968. Prior to 1967, Pool represented all of the state of Texas as its last U.S. Congressman-At-Large from 1963 through 1966. Pool was highly influential in passage of legislation and funding of his idea of a flood control and water conservation lake that he submitted in a report to President - Elect John F. Kennedy and Vice President- Elect Lyndon B. Johnsons' Kennedy-Johnson Natural Resources Advisory Committee on December 15, 1960.

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Aerial view of Joe Pool… @ U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, photographer not specified or unknown

More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Pool_Lake

Official Website http://www.joe-pool-lake.org/

Address 75104, United States

Coordinates 32°37'49.164" N -97°0'5.277" E

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