NOTICE OF THE MEETING OF THE CLEARWATER UNDERGROUND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT
20 de noviembre de 2024
Notice is hereby given that the above-named Board will hold a Workshop and Board meeting on Wednesday,
November 20, 2024, beginning at 1:30 p.m., in the Clearwater UWCD Board Room located at 640 Kennedy Court, Belton, Texas. The following items of business will be discussed1.
Workshop:
1. Receive information from Ty Embry related to the 89th Legislative Session and Groundwater Legislation.
2. Receive updates related to the 2024 Bell County Water Symposium.
3. Receive information from Mike Keester, KT Groundwater, related to geoscience assessment of Heidelberg Materials’ two new wells completed to the Middle Trinity aquifer (Hensell Layer) and the impact to Middle Trinity well owners in Bell County.
4. Receive updates related to GMA8 DFC determination, per TWC section 36.108, and plans for the next round.
Board Meeting:
1. Invocation and Pledge of Allegiance.
2. Public comment.2
3. Approve minutes of the October 9, 2024, Board meeting.
4. Hold Public Hearing on the following permit applications:
a.) Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action, if necessary, for an amendment to an existing combination drilling and operating permit submitted by Belton Partners, LLC for a proposed new well (N3-24-011P) to be completed in the Lower Trinity Aquifer with a maximum 2-inch column pipe on a 12.62-acre tract in the Eastern Management Zone located at 7983 N I-35, Salado, TX, 76571. The permit will authorize withdrawal to produce groundwater for public water supply to a travel center in the proposed annual quantity not to exceed 2.5 acre-feet or 814,628 gallons per year, at a maximum pumping rate of 40 gallons per minute.
b.) Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action, if necessary, on an application submitted by American Rockwool, LLC for an operating permit on an existing well (N3-24-013G) completed in the Middle Trinity Aquifer (Hensell Layer) equipped with a maximum 3-inch column pipe on contiguous tracts of land (PID 2508 and 132517) totaling 77.07 acres in the Belton Lake Management Zone located at 440 Jack Rabbit Road, Nolanville, Texas. The permit will authorize the production of groundwater for industrial use at a proposed annual quantity not to exceed 6 acre-feet or 1,955,106 gallons per year, at a maximum pumping rate of 110 gallons per minute.
5. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action, if necessary, to accept the monthly Financial Report for October (FY25) as presented.
6. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action, if necessary, to accept the monthly Investment Fund account report for October (FY25) as presented.
7. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action, if necessary, to approve the FY25 line-item budget amendments as requested.
8. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action, if necessary, to approve final FY24 line-item budget amendments as requested.
9. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action, if necessary, to close out the FY24 budget year as presented.
10. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action, if necessary, by resolution to designate a district representative and alternate to Groundwater Management Area 8.
11. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action, if necessary, by resolution to enter an interlocal agreement regarding GMA8 funding for development of Desired Future Conditions Joint Planning.
12. General Manager’s Report concerning office management and staffing related to District Management Plan3.
13. Receive monthly reports and possible consideration and Board action on the following3:
a) Drought Status Reports, b) Education Outreach Update, c) Monitoring Wells, d) Rainfall Report, e) Well Registration Update, f) Aquifer Status Report & Non-Exempt Monthly Well Production Reports
14. Director comments and reports.
15. Discuss agenda items for the next meeting.
16. Set time and place for the next meeting.
17. Adjourn.
Dated the 15th day of November 2024.
Leland Gersbach, Board President
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Dirk Aaron, Asst. Secretary
Dirk Aaron, Asst. Secretary
Agenda items may be considered, deliberated, and/or acted upon in a different order than set forth above.
CUWCD is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Reasonable accommodation and equal opportunity for effective communications will be provided upon request. Please contact CUWCD’s office at 254-933-0120 at least 24 hours in advance if accommodation is needed.
1 During the meeting, the Board reserves the right to go into executive session for any of the purposes authorized under Chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code, for any item on the above agenda, or as otherwise authorized by law.
2 Please limit comments to 3 minutes. The Board is not allowed to take action on any subject presented that is not on the agenda, nor is the Board required to provide a response; any substantive consideration and action by the Board will be conducted under a specific item on a future agenda.
3 No formal action will be taken by the Board on these agenda items. These items are on the agenda to provide CUWCD’s staff, Stakeholder Committees, and Directors with an opportunity to bring to the public and each other’s attention important activities and issues pertinent to the management of groundwater within the District, including, but not limited to, current events in the District involving groundwater, wells, or CUWCD permittees, state or regional developments related to water management, and activities of the staff, and Directors. Substantive deliberation and formal action on any of these issues will be conducted pursuant to a specific item on a future agenda.
