A North Texas man has drowned when water being released from a dam overtook his kayak.
Chad Lorance with the Tarrant Regional Water District said Tuesday that 29-year-old Joshua Reed of Fort Worth was on the water with others when they disregarded signs Saturday and entered a restricted part of the Trinity River adjacent to the main dam for Eagle Mountain Lake.
Lorance says water was being released from the dam to prevent the lake from overflowing from recent rains.
The Tarrant County medical examiner's office says Reed died of accidental drowning.
Reed's body was recovered Sunday. He is among the nine weather-related deaths over the weekend in Texas.
