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Tom Miller Dam
Completed in 1940 as part of the Lower Colorado River Authority's program of dams across the Colorado River. The Tom Miller Dam created Lake Austin and stabilized the western shoreline that became the eastern boundary of West Lake Hills.
The Austin Dam — the predecessor to today's Tom Miller Dam — was broken for nearly thirty years, washed out in the great floods of 1900. Its reconstruction, completed in 1940, was one of the signature New Deal projects of central Texas. The lake it created defined the modern shape of the West Lake area and made the riverside properties along the western shore newly desirable.
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