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October Board Meeting
October 9 @ 1:30 pm
NOTICE OF THE MEETING OF THE CLEARWATER UNDERGROUND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT
October 9, 2024
Notice is hereby given that the above-named Board will hold a Workshop and Board meeting on Wednesday,
October 9, 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:
- Receive presentation from Collier Consulting related to Mustang Springs exploratory drilling permits.
- Receive presentation from Mike Keester on the Edwards (BFZ) Northern Segment GAM Review.
- Receive updates related to the 2024 Bell County Water Symposium.
- Receive updates on the CUWCD quarterly water level measurements.
- Receive updates related to GMA8 DFC determination, per TWC section 36.108, and plans for the next round.
Board Meeting:
- Invocation and Pledge of Allegiance.
- Public comment.2
- Approve minutes of the September 11, 2024, Board meeting.
- Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action, if necessary, to accept the monthly Financial Report for September (FY24) as presented.
- Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action, if necessary, to accept the monthly Investment Fund account report for September (FY24) as presented.
- Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action, if necessary, to accept the Quarterly Deferred Compensation Employee Retirement Program account report as presented.
- Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action, if necessary, to approve the FY24 line-item budget amendments as requested.
- Continue Public Hearing on the following application:
a.) Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action, if necessary, on a proposed drilling permit for Jarrell Schwertner Water Supply Corporation (JSWSC) for a public water supply well (N3-24-008P), submitted on July 22, 2024, for a proposed production amount not to exceed 577 ac-ft/year or 188,016,027 gallons/year, completed in the Lower Trinity Aquifer (Hosston Layer) in the Eastern Management Zone with a maximum 8-inch column pipe and an estimated withdrawal rate of 600 gallons/minute on a 1.0-acre tract (PID:511491) located in the northern portion of JSWSC’s service area at 5729 Royal Street, Salado TX 76571, Latitude 30.929919º/Longitude -97.475825º. This drilling permit will not authorize any production of groundwater other than what is necessary for the prescribed aquifer pumping test.
- Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action, if necessary, by resolution in support of the creation of the Central Texas Water Alliance.
- Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action, if necessary, by resolution in support of the City of Temple pursuing ASR-REUSE permit from TCEQ.
- Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action, if necessary, to approve the FY25 line-item budget amendments as requested.
- Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action, if necessary, by resolution, to nominate an individual to represent “all other taxing units jointly” for the seventh member of the Tax Appraisal District of Bell County.
- General Manager’s Report concerning office management and staffing related to District Management Plan3.
- 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 - Director comments and reports.
- Discuss agenda items for the next meeting.
- Set time and place for the next meeting.
- Adjourn.
Dated the _4th day of October, 2024.
Leland Gersbach, Board President
By: Click here for original signed document
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 accommodations 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.