NOTICE OF PRELIMINARY 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 continue a preliminary hearing on two Applications for Drilling Permits as described below at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, December 13, 2023, in the Sirena Facility of TENROC Ranch located at 5471 Thomas Arnold Road, Salado, TX 76571. An evidentiary hearing on the two Applications described below will be announced and noticed at a future date. All persons designated as parties to the Contested Case Hearing, persons who submitted a request for notice under District Rule 6.10.2(c), and any other person the Presiding Officer deems appropriate, will be issued notice in accordance with District Rule 6.10.19 establishing the date, hour, place and subject of the hearing, by regular mail.
The preliminary hearing will be conducted on the following application:
| Applicant’s File Number/Name | Permit Applicant/Holder and Landowner | Location of Well/Wells | Proposed Annual Groundwater Withdrawal Amount & Purpose of Use |
| Drilling Permit Hearing related to:
Well #1 N3-23-010P
Well #2 N3-23-011P |
Jaffe Interests LP
James Kerby owner Mustang Springs c/o: Dr. Gretchen Miller
1205 Sam Bass Rd., Bldg. B, Ste. 300, Round Rock TX 78681
(512) 851-8740 |
The proposed Drilling permits are for two public water supply wells to serve a future new development community on an 1100-acre tract.
Well #1 Latitude 30.921147º Longitude -97.625147º
Well #2 Latitude 30.930094º Longitude -97.635711º
This application is for a Drilling Permit only and no production to be authorized.
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The proposed wells are for proposed future production of groundwater for a future public water supply entity at a combined annual quantity not to exceed 249.8 acre-feet or 81,397,580 total gallons per year at a maximum pumping rate not to exceed 320 gallons per minute per well from the Lower Trinity Aquifer (Hosston Layer)
No production will be issued with this drilling permit application other than that necessary for the purpose of drilling and completing the wells and the prescribed elements of the required Well Completion Reports per District Rule 6.9.2(f)(1-8) for the purpose of a future operating permit. |
The Applications for Drilling Permits, if granted, would authorize the permit holders to drill wells within the Clearwater Underground Water Conservation District according to the terms and conditions set forth in the permit. The Presiding Officer designated the hearing on the Applications for Drilling Permits a Contested Case Hearing at a preliminary hearing held on November 8, 2023, and designated certain Affected Persons as Parties to the Contested Case Hearing.
The purpose of the continued preliminary hearing is limited to determining whether persons who timely submitted a written request for a contested case hearing prior to the November 8, 2023, hearing in accordance with District Rule 6.10.12, but did not appear at the November 8, 2023 hearing, are Affected Persons as defined by the District Rules. The Presiding Officer will not consider any requests for a contested case hearing that was not timely received by the District.
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 20th day of November, 2023 in Belton, Texas, on the recommendation of the General Manager.
I, the undersigned authority, do hereby certify that the above NOTICE OF PRELIMINARY 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 November 20, 2023, 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 11/20/2023
Clearwater Underground Water Conservation District
By: Click here for original signed document
Dirk Aaron, General Manager
