Longhorn Dam, built in 1960 to create the reservoir known as Lady Bird Lake for the now-closed Holly Power Plant, suffered a control system malfunction in October.

Crews have successfully installed a temporary barrier at Longhorn Dam to prevent a further drop in water level at Lady Bird Lake after one of the dam’s gates failed Tuesday. READ MORE: <a href ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Crews have successfully installed a temporary barrier at Longhorn Dam to prevent a further drop in water level at Lady Bird Lake after one of the dam’s gates failed Tuesday.

On Tuesday, Austin Water said during regularly scheduled work this afternoon, one of nine gates at Longhorn Dam failed in the open position leading Lady Bird Lake levels to begin dropping.

Austin Water said one of the nine gates at Longhorn Dam "failed in the open position" during scheduled work earlier Tuesday afternoon. By 5 p.m., Lady Bird Lake's water level had dropped two feet.

The city of Austin will begin construction on a half-mile pedestrian bridge over Lady Bird Lake in East Austin on Monday.. The bridge will connect Longhorn Shores, Canterbury Park and a peninsula ...

Austin-Travis County EMS and Austin Police found a body in Lady Bird Lake near Longhorn Dam on Saturday morning. During a media briefing, Officer Austin Zarling said APD along with ATCEMS ...

AUSTIN - Boaters taking an afternoon jaunt on Austin's Lady Bird Lake got dangerously close to plunging off the 36-foot-high Longhorn Dam on Thursday before rescuers arrived.

When police in Austin, Texas, responded to calls about a boat at the edge of Longhorn Dam earlier this week, they found it teetering over the edge — with four people aboard.

Four women were saved when the boat they were in nearly plummeted over the edge of Longhorn Dam in Austin, Texas. ATCEMS. James Kane, who works at Retro Boat Rentals in Austin, said he rushed to ...