EAST TEXAS \u2014 It\u2019s been more than 30 years in the making. Lake Columbia can now move forward with the final permit process thanks to a new partnership. Once cleared, construction can begin, according to KETK. The proposed lake will run from Smith County, near Tyler, into Cherokee County. Plans for Lake Columbia began in 1978. But funding delays hindered the project\u2019s development. One official says, \u201cOnce the federal permits are in hand, the rest of the process is rather fast and straightforward. I wouldn\u2019t think it\u2019d take more than 1 to 2 years to complete. It\u2019s just taken 10 years to date to get the federal permits in process, and they haven\u2019t been accomplished yet.\u201d Lake Columbia is named in honor of the NASA shuttle that went down in East Texas back in 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
EAST TEXAS \u2014 It\u2019s been more than 30 years in the making. Lake Columbia can now move forward with the final permit process thanks to a new partnership. Once cleared, construction can begin, according to KETK. The proposed lake will run from Smith County, near Tyler, into Cherokee County. Plans for Lake Columbia began in … Continue reading Lake Columbia a Step Closer to Reality<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-04 05:50:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221514"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221727,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221514\/revisions\/221727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}