Compilation of hydrologic data, Honey Creek, Trinity River Basin, Texas, 1967

The U.S. Soil Conservation Service is actively engaged in the installation of flood and soil erosion reducing measures in Texas under the authority of "The Flood Control Act of 1936 and 1944" and "Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act" (Public Law 566), as amended. The Soil Conservation Service has found a total of 3,438 floodwater-retarding structures to be physically and economically feasible in Texas. As of September 30, 1967, 1,196 of these structures had been built.