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Why does the BRA own large quantities of land at PK?

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Why does the BRA own large quantities of land at PK?

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In 1929, the Brazos River Conservation and Reclamation District (District), the predecessor agency to the BRA, was formed by the Texas Legislature to conserve the waters of the Brazos for water supply purposes and to control flooding within the Brazos River basin. The Districts first project, a hydroelectric reservoir in Palo Pinto and Johnson Counties, was begun during the Great Depression of the 1930s. As the District began obtaining property for an inundation area for the reservoir, they found that a large number of land owners did not want to sell only the portion of their property needed to build the reservoir; rather, they preferred to sell entire tracts of land in amounts over and above that actually required. As a result, the District (later renamed the Brazos River Authority) held ownership of more than 14,300 acres of land encircling the lake. Over the years, the BRA began leasing some of this land for fishing and hunting purposes. These cottage site leases later evolved from

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