I went thru there a few times in the seventies, had lunch there one time. There is no big lake.
Go south towards Ozona. The big shallow playa lake there will have water on very infrequent occasions after real heavy rains.
Anyway the brilliant “conservative Republican” politicos in Ector and Midland Counties have each indebted them for nearly a billion dollars in bond debt and usury apiece.
Texas taxing entities owe a third of a trillion, maybe more.
The lake used to stay filled back before the 30’s. My Dad said there was a spring that kept it filled, but seismic testing in the oilfields shut it off and irrigation drained the aquifer that fed it.