The Sandow Lakes Ranch is a 33,800-acre ranch in

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, U.S. It spans three counties, including

Milam County, Texas Milam County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 24,754. The county seat is Cameron. The county was created in 1834 as a municipality in Mexico and organized as a county in 1837. Milam Cou ...

, There are 14 lakes on the ranch and "48,379 acre feet of water" from the

Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer The Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer is an aquifer in Texas, United States. The aquifer supplies water to about 12 million homes in East Texas. The aquifer's water quality is claimed to be at risk from leaks and spills from the Keystone XL tar sands pipelin ...

. It was acquired by

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in the 1950s. In 2016, Alcoa listed it for US$250 million.

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