MAN-MADE LAGOON EXPERTS’ SECOND HOUSTON SWIMMING HOLE: 12-ACRES BIG, 10-FT. DEEP 
Developer Land Tejas announced it’ll be deploying another artificial lagoon in Houston on top of the 2-acre one it’s already filling up with water near Summerwood. Technology for both of them comes from Dallas-based firm Crystal Lagoons whose patented, beach-fronted swimming holes function “year-round, even in cold climates” —- reports BusinessWire — “in which they can be frozen and used for winter sports such as ice skating and hockey.” Crystal Lagoons’ biggest one so far, a 23.8-acre body of water at the Citystars Sharm El Sheikh resort in Egypt is the current Guinness-World-Record-holder for “largest man-made lagoon.” But not for long: the firm’s got a 90-acre one in the works for Dubai. At Land Tejas’ 4,000-home community in Texas City — dubbed Lago Mar — the planned 12-acre Crystal Lagoon lagoon will be surrounded by a “70-acre resort-style compound,” reports the HBJ’s Fauzeya Rahman, including boardwalks, a hotel, restaurants, and retail. [HBJ] Map showing proposed resort component of Land Tejas’ Lago Mar development: Land Tejas
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Is there fishing?
Can they connect it to Brays Bayou?
Have the Houston needs a Swimming Hole people seen this?
Are there lifeguards and rescue craft? Just in case the precious darlings drown !!!
Soon to be turned into a mud-filled pond complete with alligators
I was cycling out beyond Katy a few months ago and found this neighborhood called Katy Lakes. Several artificial lakes in the middle of nowhere. People put their boats on the water, etc… and I thought, you could barely drive your boat 1/2 miles before you were done. I guess its a great use of a retention land, but it still struck me as odd..
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lakes+of+Katy+Ln,+Texas+77493/@29.8197618,-95.8457951,1193m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x864125bd1108c74d:0xf5f2774b8576a29b!8m2!3d29.8223001!4d-95.8445915
@Purdueenginerd, not sure whether you were joking, but I can tell by the overhead view that those are competition water ski lakes. You can see the jump — it’s the red rectangle in one of the lakes. There’s another set, Lakes at Cypress Hill, off of Cypress-Rosehill, just south of where the Grand Parkway was plowed through.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lakes+At+Cypress+Hill,+Cypress,+TX+77429/@30.037177,-95.6948552,1121m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x86472ad4a39be5fb:0x78acc6bcdab7feb0!8m2!3d30.0367036!4d-95.6937933
@googlemaster
Did not know that. Thanks! There was a lot of advertisements around the neighborhood for the lakes, I had never seen that before.
I wouldn’t have thought there would be not but two developments where one of the selling features is proximity to water ski competitions and, presumably, practices.
I used to have some friends who were really into the sport, which is how I knew about the ones in Cypress.
@TimP, I found an article about a kid who skied “all eight lakes” in the Houston area: http://www.ncwsa.com/texas-am-skier-hits-all-8-houston-lakes-in-one-day/
And then I found a searchable map, which lists those eight plus six more for a total of 14, if you’re willing to drive as far as Conroe or Columbus:
http://wheretospray.com/sample-page/private-sites/