NOTICE OF 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 one Application for Permit as described below at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 14, 2025, 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 applications:
Applicant’s File Number / Name
Operating Permit
Well # N3-23-005P
Permit Applicant / Holder and Landowner
University of Mary Hardin Baylor
c/o Dr. Steve Theodore
900 College Street
Belton, TX 76513
(254) 295-4519
Location of Well
The existing well is completed to the Lower Trinity aquifer (Hosston) in the Belton Lake management zone and equipped with a maximum 4-inch column pipe. The well is located on a 28.12-acre tract at the N.W. corner of W. Martin Luther King Junior Ave and Nolan Creek in Belton, Texas.
Latitude 31.069169º
Longitude -97.472680º
Proposed Annual Groundwater Withdrawal Amount & Purpose of Use
The applicant requests an operating permit on existing well N3-23-005P to authorize groundwater withdrawal for golf course irrigation at a proposed annual quantity not-to-exceed 37.1 acre-feet or 12,089,072 gallons per year, at a maximum pumping rate of 270 gallons per minute.
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.
The Applications for Permit and Permit Amendments, if granted, would authorize the permit holder to operate wells within the Clearwater Underground Water Conservation District according to the terms and conditions set forth in the permit. A person wishing to submit a Contested Case Hearing Request 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 2nd day of May 2025 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 May 2, 2025, 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: 5/2/2025
Clearwater Underground Water Conservation District
Dirk Aaron, General Manager
