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Waco Lake
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Kathy Gately
CESWF-OD-WA
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Fort Worth District
3801 Zoo Park Road
Waco, Texas 76708

Phone: 254-756-5359

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Waco Lake Recreation Page

The original master plan for Waco Lake (Brazos River Basin, Texas, Design Memorandum No.10B, Master Plan for Waco Reservoir, Bosque River, Texas) was approved in 1962. In February 1970, the master plan was updated (Brazos River Basin, Texas, Design Memorandum No.10C, Updated Master Plan for Waco Reservoir, Bosque River, Texas) and approved in September 1970. Since 1970, considerable changes have occurred regarding Corps management and stewardship philosophies and the Corps Master Planning requirements concerning land classification.

In 2003, the Waco Lake Pool Raise permanently raised the conservation pool elevation from 455 to 462 feet National Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD) and increased the surface acreage of the conservation pool from approximately 7,200 to 8,900 acres. A total of 47,500 acre-feet of flood control storage was re-allocated to water supply storage as a result. Prior to the pool raise, an environmental assessment was completed in May 2000 and a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) was signed by the District Commander on 27 July 2000. In August 2003, the Supplemental Environmental Assessment (SEA) was published and the FONSI was replaced with a mitigated FONSI, signed by the District Engineer on August 17, 2003, to incorporate changes that were made to the Mitigation Plan since the signing of the original FONSI. Detailed information regarding mitigation land and its operations and maintenance may be found in the Mitigation and Operations and Maintenance Plan for the Waco Lake Pool Raise (Appendix B). Other information related to the pool raise, including hydrology and geotechnical considerations of the project are contained in the Waco Lake Pool Raise Design Report, dated April 2001.