El Campo Leader-News (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 64, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 2, 1983 Page: 2 of 33
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El Campo l^eader-Newx. El Campo, TX. Wed., Nov. 2,1963
Hancock Claims Dam Would Help Economy
By KAY KENNEDY RICE
The possibility of a dam on the
lower Colorado River, which has
generated a good deal of con-
troversy in Colorado and Payette
counties, is not expected to have
any adverse affects on the El
Campo area.
John Hancock Sr. of El Campo,
who serves on the board of
directors of the Lower Colorado
River Authority, speculates the
dam. which would not even be
authorized until late 1967, will
guarantee more water supply
locally for farming, industrial,
municipal and recreational ac-
tivities.
The LCRA has not taken a stand
on the proposed dam, Hancock
said, but is sponsoring a study by
the Federal Bureau of
Reclamation to see if a dam is
warranted.
"Most of us are just taking a
wait-and-see attitude," Hancock
said*
The most favorable site for the
dam would be four to five miles
north of Columbus, which Is 38
miles northwest of El Campo.
William Lehrer, president of
Lehrer Interests, which operates
Garwood Irrigation Company and
the El Seven Ranch in Garwood,
said the dam would help by better
controlling the river’s flow.
Lehrer's irrigation company
receives its water from dams
located above Austin and must
allow five days for the water to
reach Garwood.
A major drawback to that
system, Lehrer pointed out, is
that many times it rains before
the dam water arrives,
eliminating the need for the dam
water.
"It (the proposed dam) would
be a control point closer to us and
would result in less water
wasted,” he said.
Hie El Seven Ranch, which
usually farms approximately
2,000 acres of rice in Colorado and
Wharton counties, would also
benefit from a more controlled
water supply.
The possibility of floodiiw
between 14,000 to 20,000 acres of
prime farm land is not a popular
topic among Colorado and
Fayette county fanners. Half of
the acreage to be flooded would
come from each county.
A suggested citizens’ com-
mittee, which would have con-
sulted with federal and state
officials on the dam proposal, was
nixed by mare than 200 persons
attending a public meeting in
Columbus on Oct. 6.
According to Brooks Gallman,
study manager with the Bureau of
Reclamation office in Amarillo,
the dam study arose from a Texas
Department of Water Resources’
projection of a water shortage in
the area by mid-1980s. Hie dam
would help supply water to
projected areas of growth along
the Gulf Coast, especially in the
Bay City vicinity.
The dam would also provide
much needed water in times of
drought, Gallman said. The
Columbus site is the best area for
storing an optimal amount of
water.
Currently the bureau is looking
at different sizes and elevations
for the dam, which will determine
exactly how much acreage will be
involved.
Some of the acreage will be
purchased at fee title, a process
by which the land is bought at
fair-market value. Gallman said
appraisers from the Columbus
area would be contracted to ap-
praise the land. If a person was
reluctant to sell, the bureau could
"enforce condemnation’’ and the
owner would be forced to move.
Although there is some concern
about the loss of so much acreage
from the tax rolls, Gallman
believes the dam could have a
positive economic effect.
"Studies show that five times as
much revenue can be generated,”
he said, “through new businesses
and more sales tax revenue.”
It should be a boon to the
economy, he added, by creating
more jobs in both construction
and maintenance and the
recreational spin-off that dam
sites usually promote.
But Gallman continued to stress
that the dam is very much in the
planning stages. There are
several steps which must be
completed before the project can
be sent to Congress for
authorization.
Because much of the acreage
flooded is also good habitat for
wildlife, the bureau is required to
determine exactly what effect the
dam would have on area wildlife
and to correct any adverse af-
fects.
For instance, the bureau would
have to buy alternative land for
wildlife to compensate for the
flooded acreage.
The bureau is in the process of
doing an environmental impact
study, Gallman said. He
estimates that a diraft en-
vironmental statement and
planning report on the dam will
not be completed until mid-lM.
This information is than filed
with the Environmental
Protection Agency, which will
hold public hearings on the matter
within 90 days.
A more detailed study on the
dam will then be initiated, which
is expected to take another three
years to complete. In the second
year of that study, a report is sent
to Congress, which will then hold
hearings and determine whether
the project should be authorized.
The Bureau of Reclamation
operates under the Department of
Interior, and is primarily In-
terested in water supply. It Is not
affiliated with the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers, which deals
with flood control.
Quiet Halloween Reported
By El Campo Police .
El Campo experienced a
relatively quiet Halloween night,
when compared to other nights
proceeding the Day of the Dead,
according to El Campo Police
Chief Jim Elliott.
Elliott said the Police Depar-
tment responded to 18 calls, most
of which concerned the usual
Halloween pranks of car egging
and water ballooning.
Two men were taken into
custody for disorderly conduct at
the Joyces*' Haunted Hospital,
held at the abandoned Nightingale
Hospital; however, charges wore
dropped Tuesday morning.
ElKott said two extra patrol
can wort on tlm streets to deal
witn me pranaawrs.
Herman Novak of El Campo
Ambulance Service said he
received no reports of open fire
liydraats nor ware any hay boles
happens on Halloween night.
However, Capt. lflke Maxoy,
investigator for the Wharton
Chanty Sheriffs Department,
that throe men were
submit to an intoxilyzer teat
Saturday. He was released on a
$800 bond.
A 18-year-old Ganado High
School juvenile was arrested for
theft at the Ritz Food Mart
Monday. She was released into
the custody of Lester Ragston,
Wharton County juvenile
probation officer.
Sheriffs deputies recovered a
vehicle in Wharton reported
stolen from El Campo Monday.
The theft was reported by Bobby
Perez, 1116 Prosperity.
William Carter, 812 Roth,
reported a criminal trespass at
his residence Tuesday morning at
1:80a.m.
Marguerite Matak, 411 E.
Norris, reported the vandalism of
a $200 valued plate glass window
at a department store located at
110 N. Washington. The incident
occurred sometime between
Saturday night and Monday
morning.
Fred Simmons, 2001 Ave. F.,
reported the burglary of Fred’s
Fashion Shoes Sunday night in
which $600 worth of shoes were
stolen. The store also suffered an
undetermined amount of damage.
Darrell Hancock, 2807 Myatt
Lane, reported the theft of a $70
valued hubcap from his car
Sunday night.
Police are searching for a Ford
pickup’s driver wanted for
evading arrest Saturday night.
The alleged violation occurred at
1800 S. Mechanic.
Thelma Rumell, 000 Ave. C,
reported the vandalism of her
home Saturday night. A $20
window screen on a front door was
reported as damaged.
Mary Kennedy, 410 Depot,
reported a burglary of her
residence Wednesday night in
which a total of 10.428 worth of
jewelry and personal items were
reported as missing.
Boling Protests Well
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were relented
Tuesday from the Wharton
County Jail after paying $412 m
flam each. Three ether arrests
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411, LaMar, and Ctydt Wayne
TWamnd,*, F.O. IB, Louies.
Ponce arrested Johnny Goar
sales, 101 Rnth, Monday ter
driving white intoxicated. He was
Donald Jonas Gregg. Chan-
nalvtaw, was arretted Friday ter
soliciting without a permit. He
pleaded guilty to a $112 fine and
J.W. Rote, 708 Grace, was
arraatod for DWI and refusal to
similar to oil wells) are uncapped
and uncased, although the
organization dost not have any
figures as to how many mines
XitffT&te that the in-
jection of wastes into the for-
mation will force mine water, now
filling the voids whore suiter ooee
lay, up the mint shafts into
drinking water formations, and
poasibly contaminate freshwater
aaads with sulfur and other im-
purities.
Carroll said Tuesday that aha
did not know how long it would
take ter the hearing to take place
enee it had begun; however,
OCAP representatives expect the
hearing to teat from one to two
days.
Carroll said earlier this sum-
mar that the hearings examiner
will issue a "proposal on a
decision” to the throe member
commission containing recom-
mendations as to how the com-
mission should rule on the
proposed well.
TOC policy dictates that a
ruling will be handed down within
00 days on an uncontested ap-
plication after the hearing. On a
contested application, such as the
Pumphrey well, a proposal for a
decision will be given to the three
members of the commission
within a 00 day period. She added
that there is no TRC policy dic-
tating a time period within which
the commission must make a
decision once they receive the
haarlngi examiner’s proposal on
a contested application.
L-N Photo by Cynthia Miller
Good Deed
Students in Kevin Stabling's eighth grade CVAE construction trades class
are learning to help neighbors as well as the basics of scraping and pain-
ting. The youngsters are working on the home of Selma Allen, 812 Depot
St., and StehUng estimates the work will take four or five more weeks.
Three classes work in two-hour blocks all day long, Stehling said. The in-
structor hopes to initiate more projects to help area senior citizens.
Perez Indicted For Manslaughter
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Miller Promoted To
captei rofore
gradtu mding
Wharti College
where omore
year. I Texas
AAM jar in
compu
torney re-calls will be utilized
when necessary "I don’t think
this will be too rare in coming
years. We will probably maintain
the quarterly system, with a re-
call probably once a year. The re-
call will not be issued to submit
new information, but to resubmit
old information and to tie up loose
ends," he said.
He said the Munox case was the
deciding factor in the current re-
call because if he had waited for
the next grand jury session in
January to submit new in-
formation in the case, it would
have either held up the setting of
the trial or forced him to ignore
the other information, in this case
the two prior convictions, against
Munoz.
News Editor Position
Cynthia L. MUter, who
Jobs IBM as a
team gauthwaat Taxes State University, was
to the El Campo Lsadsr Ns us in ^
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Driverless Car Injures One
Milter roalacaa Kay Rice, who has bold the position since
Fob. IBt Rice, who i
A 80-year-old local woman was
taken to El Campo Memorial
Hospital on Halloween day
following an accident caused by
an driver leas car.
1001, as Family Focus editor,
necessitated by Rice's
in position was
team full-time to part-time
Anna toraay
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Accordtof to officer Joe Munoc,
who investigated the accident.
the collision with the woman in
the station wagon, and both
agreed that damage was
negligible, and the station wagon
throve away.
However. Wendel had saver
Wendel said in a
interview that she was a0'right
and merely received a bumped
head from the incident. She
reportedly wars bar Halloween
mask in the ambulance on her
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away, it head tha unmaaasd
vehicle, which proceeded across
the intersection (ward the El
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Barbee, Chris. El Campo Leader-News (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 64, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 2, 1983, newspaper, November 2, 1983; El Campo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1017488/m1/2/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Wharton County Library.