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Lower
Colorado Regional Water Planning Group (Region K)
Discusses Plans for Meeting Future Regional Water Demands
Public Meeting Scheduled for January 28, 2004
BASTROP – The public is invited to provide their input on elements of a future regional water plan that will map out how to conserve water supplies, meet future water needs and respond to future droughts in the Lower Colorado River Basin. The meeting is at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, January 28th, at the McKinney Roughs Nature Park, located 8 miles west of Bastrop on Highway 71, 13.2 miles east of the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. John Burke, Chair of the Lower Colorado Regional Water Planning Group (Region K), will conduct this meeting. The public is encouraged to attend as time will be allocated for questions and comments.
Items for discussion include a briefing on the City of Austin’s Bed and Banks Application pending before the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the consideration of a proposed resolution by the Region K Planning Group encouraging the Texas General Land Office to pay greater attention to the State’s Senate Bill - and 2 regional water planning process. Presentations will be made by Paul Tybor, General Manager of the Hill Country Underground Water Conservation District (Gillespie County), and Ron Fieseler General Manager of the Blanco-Pedernales GCD (Blanco County) on each District’s approved groundwater management plan. The Region K Planning Group will also discuss the process for identifying potentially feasible water management strategies necessary to meet water supply shortages in the basin over the next Fifty (50) years. Those strategies will be developed and evaluated in preparation for the 2006 Lower Colorado Regional Water Plan.
Region K Planning Group efforts respond to comprehensive water legislation passed by the 75th Texas Legislature designed to address Texas’ vulnerability to drought and to the limits of existing water supplies in order to meet the Lone Star State’s increasing demands for water. Region K consists of the following counties: Bastrop, Blanco, Burnet, Colorado, Fayette, Gillespie, Hays, Llano, Matagorda, Mills, San Saba, Travis, Wharton and Williamson.
Additional information can be obtained at www.regionk.org.