Lake Worth- What's it worth?

FW Weekly article. Check it out.

We especially like the line below. It's as true now as it was over a hundred years ago.

Fort Worth was growing in the early 1900s and needed a clean water supply and flood control.

The lack of dredging "was really a financial issue," said Fort Worth Water Department spokesperson Mary Gugliuzza. The city was working with the United States Army Corps of Engineers starting in the late 1990s to dredge the lake, she said, but the corps stopped doing such projects after Hurricane Katrina, citing a lack of funding. The city will still need a Corps of Engineers permit for the dredging, which could be issued in about a year, but there will be no accompanying Corps funding.

Oversight of the lake and surrounding 950 acres was passed around from city department to city department. Sometimes the water department ran it, sometimes parks and recreation, sometime planning, he said.