A manager at the Hula Hut restaurant across the street from LCRA headquarters had called in the emergency. Dildine, a 21-year-old former Army soldier, knew the situation could not be good.

His words from 1958 to that effect are on a plaque at LCRA headquarters on Lake Austin Boulevard, so named for a body of water created by a vision he helped realize. “Every afternoon when sunset ...

Joe Beal Jr. sat in the boardroom of the Lower Colorado River Authority headquarters in Austin talking about how impressed he was with China. A year earlier, as LCRA general manager, he had ...