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Over 200 miles inland, Dallas, Texas is an unlikely port city. Nonetheless, for a hundred years of the city’s history, on and off efforts to make the Trinity River navigable resulted in what is today six abandoned dams and locks intended to be part of a network leading from Dallas to Trinity Bay. Let’s explore them!
SOURCES | FURTHER READING
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2. dfwurbanwildlife.com/2014/04/...
3. www.dmagazine.com/nature-envi... About paddling the Trinity
4. www.tshaonline.org/handbook/e...
5. americancanalsociety.org/wp-c... historic map of seven locks and dams
6. 99percentinvisible.org/episod... 99PI episode
7.www.texasmonthly.com/news-pol...
8. digitalcollections.smu.edu/di... photo of HA Harvey
9. www.swf.usace.army.mil/Portal...
10. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity...)
11. trinityrivercorridor.com/floo...
12. scholarworks.sfasu.edu/cgi/vi... ETHJ Trinity Lock and Dam Article
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Dallas, dallas texas, dallastx, texas, trinity river, trinity river texas, abandoned, infrastructure, abandoned infrastructure, abandoned texas, texashistory, texas history, environmentalism, government waste, aquatic ecosystems