NOTICE OF THE MEETING OF THE CLEARWATER UNDERGROUND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT

March 9, 2022

 Notice is hereby given that the above-named Board will hold a Workshop beginning at 10:00 a.m. and the Regular Board meeting beginning at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 9, 2022, in the Clearwater UWCD Board Room located at 700 Kennedy Court, Belton, Texas.  The following items of business will be discussed¹.

Workshop 10:00 a.m:

1. Discuss the process for implementing management zones within Bell County and potential rule changes.
2. Receive information related to Groundwater Management Area 8, per the Joint Planning and Development of the Round 3 Desired Future Conditions.
3. Receive updates on the Bell-Cor RHCP.
4. Receive draft of Annual Report for 2021.

Board Meeting 1:30 p.m:

1. Invocation and Pledge of Allegiance.
2. Public comment².
3. Approve minutes of February 16, 2022, Board meeting.
4. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action if necessary, to accept the monthly financial report for February 2022 (FY22) as presented.
5. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action if necessary, to accept the monthly investment fund account report for February 2022 (FY22) as presented.
6. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action if necessary, to approve the FY22 line-item budget amendments as requested.
7. Hold a show cause hearing on the following violation:
   1. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action necessary upon receiving testimony related to violation of District Rule 6.5 by drilling & completing a well on January 22, 2022, without a formal CUWCD permit on a tract of land less than 10-acres and great than or equal to 2-acres, Latitude 30.930066 º/ Longitude -97.701384º by both Raul Zavala (“Driller”) (TDLR License #54363) officed at 1910 S. Wheeler St., Jasper TX 76951 and Mr. Tomas Reynoso (“Property Owner”), located at 15731 Cedar Valley Rd, Salado TX.
8. Hold a public hearing on the following application:
   1. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action, if necessary, by William Gamblin P.E. on behalf of Zachary & Charlotte Baird, for a combination drilling and operating permit to authorize drilling and withdrawal from a proposed new well (#N2-21-008P) to complete the prescribed TCEQ Groundwater Availability Study for plating the proposed Rancho Vista Phase 2 Subdivision under Title 30, Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 230, Sections 230.2 through and including 230.11. permit to authorize the withdrawal from a new well completed in the Middle Trinity Aquifer with a 2-inch column pipe on an 88.47-acre tract located at 21801Williamson Road, Salado, TX 76571, Latitude 30.872972º/Longitude -97.602789º (well# N2-21-008P), to produce water for domestic use in a shared well system serving 8 homes and no more than 22 people for a proposed annual quantity not to exceed 5.0 acre-feet or 1,657,465 gallons per year total.
9. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action if necessary, to approve set-back waiver for Sherry Collins.
10. General Manager’s report concerning office management and staffing related to District Management Plan³.
11. Receive monthly staff report and possible consideration and Board action on the following³:
    1. Drought Status reports
    2. Education Outreach update
    3. Monitoring Well reports
    4. Rainfall report
    5. Well Registration update
    6. Aquifer Status and Non-exempt Monthly Well Production reports
12. Director comments and reports³.
13. Discuss agenda items for the next meeting.
14. Set time and place for next meeting.
15. Adjourn.

Dated the  4th   day of March 2022      

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.

The Clearwater Underground Water Conservation District 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 the District office at 254-933-0120 at least 24 hours in advance if accommodation is needed.

¹During 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.

 ²Citizens who desire to address the Board on any matter may sign up to do so prior to this meeting.  Public comments will be received during this portion of the meeting.  Please limit comments to 3 minutes.  No discussion or final action will be taken by the Board except as authorized by section 551.042 of the Government Code.

 ³No formal action will be taken by the Board on these agenda items.  These items are on the agenda to provide the District’s staff, Public Task Force Committees, and Directors with an opportunity to bring to the public’s 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 District permittees, state or regional developments related to water management, and activities of the staff, Public Advisory Committee, and Directors.  Substantive deliberation and formal action on any of these issues will be conducted pursuant to a specific item on a future agenda.