Encumbrance Hearing & Permit Hearing Notice
May 8 @ 1:30 pm
NOTICE OF ENCUMBRANCE HEARING & PERMIT HEARING OF THE CLEARWATER UNDERGROUND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT
Notice is hereby given that the Board of Directors for the Clearwater Underground Water Conservation District will conduct a hearing on two Applications for Permits as described below at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, in the Clearwater UWCD Board Room located at 640 Kennedy Court, Belton, Texas, in compliance with the Texas Open Meetings Act.
The hearing will be conducted on the following application:
| Applicant’s File Number/Name | Permit Applicant/Holder and Landowner | Location of Encumbrance | Proposed Encumbrance Tracts |
| Encumbrance
Hearing related to:
Well # N3-23-010P
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Jaffe Interests, LP James Kerby owner
Mustang Springs c/o: Dr. Gretchen Miller
1205 Sam Bass Rd Bldg. B, Ste. 300 Round Rock, Texas 78681
(512) 851-8740 |
Well #N3-23-010P
Latitude 30.921147º Longitude -97.625147 º Per District Rule 9.5.5 (g), The Board may grant an exception if, after notice and hearing, the Applicant provides a properly executed and recorded Encumbrance Agreement, transferring the groundwater rights attributable to the adjacent land of one or more property owner(s) to the Applicant sufficient to attain the minimum tract size necessary to support a Non-exempt Well. Encumbrance of acreage necessary for 20-acres as it relates to an approved drilling permit requiring tract size necessary for a Lower Trinity well equipped with a maximum 4-inch column pipe, per District Rule 9.5.2.
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TO:
Jaffe Interests, LP, owner of a 9.93-acre tract of land, being out of 1,019.86-acre tract of land described as Tract One conveyed from Mor-Maur Mustang, LLC to Jaffe Interests, LP by Special Warranty Deed with Vendor’s Lien dated June 9, 2023, and recorded Document No. 2023-026185 of the Real Property Records of Bell County, Texas.
FROM: Jaffe Interests, LP, owner of a 10.07-acre tract of land, being out of a 1,019.86-acre tract of land described as Tract One conveyed from Mor-Maur Mustang, LLC to Jaffe Interests, LP by Special Warranty Deed with Vendor’s Lien dated June 9, 2023, and recorded Document No. 2023-026185 of the Real Property Records of Bell County, Texas (the “Encumbered Property”).
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| Applicant’s File Number/Name | Permit Applicant/Holder and Landowner | Location of Well/Wells | Proposed Annual Groundwater Withdrawal Amount & Purpose of Use |
| Operating Permit Hearing
related to:
Well # N3-24-003G Existing Well
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Victory Rock Texas, LLC
c/o Jordan Furnans
1101 Satellite View #301 Round Rock, TX 78665
(512) 736-6485 |
The proposed amendment is for an existing well located at:
Well #N3-24-003G Latitude 30.876146º Longitude -97.609419º
The existing well is completed in the Hensell Layer of the Trinity Aquifer and geographically in the CUWCD Stillhouse Hollow Management Zone.
Well #N3-24-003G is equipped with a 2-inch column pipe with a submersible pump rated at 42 gallons per minute on contiguous tracts of land totaling 394.18-acre tract located at 7090 Solana Ranch Rd, Salado, TX 76571.
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Victory Rock Texas, LLC is requesting an operating permit to produce groundwater for a defined beneficial use to provide water for commercial sand and gravel mining operations, to wash the mined material, dust suppression, and to provide water to a concrete batch plant facility known as Five Star, Concrete, LLC on contiguous tracts of land, leased from Byron Goode, known as PID: 107127 of approximately 3.35-acres, PID: 523554 of approximately 2.70-acres, PID: 41910 of approximately 55.56-acres, PID: 41912 of approximately 221.83-acres, PID: 41920 of approximately 110.74-acres totaling 394.18-acres.
This operating permit request is to authorize production of groundwater not to exceed 67.75-ac-ft (22,076,405 gallons) per year from well #N3-24-003G completed in the Hensell Layer of Trinity Aquifer.
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The application for the encumbrance, if granted, would authorize the drilling permit holder within the Clearwater Underground Water Conservation District, in accordance with the terms and conditions specified in this application, to proceed with their test well efforts.
The application for an operating permit for an existing exempt well would authorize the applicant to operate within the Clearwater Underground Water Conservation District, in accordance with the terms and conditions specified in the application, subject to board deliberation and approval with potential limits and special provisions. A person wishing to submit a Contested Case Hearing Request, as it relates to the proposed Operating Permit, under District Rule 6.10.15(d), who is unable to appear at the hearing on the date and time set forth above, must also file a motion for continuance with CUWCD demonstrating good cause for the inability to not appear.
For additional information about this application or the permitting process, or to request information on the legal requirements on what MUST be included for a Contested Case Hearing Request to be valid, please contact CUWCD at 700 Kennedy Court (PO Box 1989) Belton, Texas, 76513, 254-933-0120.
ISSUED this 26th day of April 2024 in Belton, Texas, on the recommendation of the General Manager.
I, the undersigned authority, do hereby certify that the above NOTICE OF PERMIT HEARING of the Board of Directors of the Clearwater Underground Water Conservation District is a true and correct copy of said Notice. I have posted a true and correct copy of said Notice at the District office located in Belton, Texas, and said Notice was posted on April 26, 2024, and remained posted continuously for at least 10 (ten) days immediately preceding the day of said hearing; a true and correct copy of said Notice was furnished to the Bell County Clerk, in which the above-named political subdivision is located.
Dated 4/26/2024
Clearwater Underground Water Conservation District
By: Click here for original signed document
Dirk Aaron, General Manager