Author: Alejandra Martinez | The Texas Tribune

Fish Trap Lake, five miles west of downtown Dallas, glistened in the sunlight, ducks and geese swam, and a man with a fishing rod cast his line on a warm January morning. On the trail that circles the 10-acre lake located inside a park, mothers with strollers walk to the sound of water waves and chirping birds.Across the street from the park stands a row of industrial companies, including plants that turn sand, water and cement into concrete to build highways and subdivisions and high-rises in fast-growing Texas.While the fish is in the lake’s name, Janie Cisneros, 41, a mother…

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