The Cross Section, Volume 20, Number 4, April 1974 Page: 1
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AGRICUl.TURAL
N TA Monthly Publication of the High Plains Underground Water Conservatio~
Volume 20-No. 4 "THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR WATER"n District No. 1
A pril, 1974WT Chamber of Commerce Honors
High Plains Water DistrictThe West Texas Chamber of Com-
merce (WTCC) recently paid tribute
to the High Plains Underground Water
Conservation District for "23 years of
innovative pioneering leadership in
local regulation and conservation of
groundwater."
Billy Wayne Sisson of Hereford,
President of the Board of Directors,
was present to receive the plaque at
the West Texas Chamber's Great West
Texan Luncheon, April 19 in Odessa,
during the group's 56th Annual Con-
vention.
Arthur Duggan, Litfiefield attorney
Candidates Differ
on Water Problems
The increasing dependence of the
world upon the agricultural production
of West Texas and the area's depen-
dence upon groundwater to maintain
that level of production has been the
subject of much comment in the race
to win the gubernatorial nomination
in the May 4 Democratic primary
election-.
Recently addressing the subject
have been Governor Dolph Briscoe
and former Representative Frances
"Sissy" Farenthold, candidates for the
Democratic nomination for Governor-.
Speaking before an April 16 meet-
ing of the Water Resource Conserva-
-continued on page 4 .. . CANDIDAT ESand Chairman of the WTCC Water
Committee, presented the award.
Also honored by the Chamber were
the North Plains Water Conservation
District, Dumas, and the Panhandle
Underground Water Conservation Dis-
trict, White Deer. J. W. Buchanan,
Manager of the North Plains District,
accepted the award for 19 years of
service, and James B. McCray, Presi-
dent of the Panhandle Board of Direc-
tors, received his District's award for
18 years of service.
Contribution of Agriculture
In his remarks prior to the presen-
tations, Duggan cited the significant
contribution West Texas has made to
the increased agricultural production
of the past year, and the effect this
effort has had on the United States'
balance-of-payments record on the
world trade scene.
Speaking of the importance of water
to this economic picture, Duggan said,
"The life of water production from
these great underground reservoirs al-
ready has been extended until impor-
tation of water can be achieved to en-
able production, perhaps, for all time
to come.
"For this notable achievement, the
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
hereby presents to each of the three
active underground water conservation
districts in West Texas an award for
conservation of water."i~ q
atIt 4
t
Arthur Duggan, Chairman of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce Water Com-
mittee, presents an award for "23 years of innovative pioneering leadership in
local regulation and conservation of groundwater" to Billy Wayne Sisson, right,
President of the Board of the High Plains Water District.
PUBLIC HEARING RESOLVES WELL iSSUE0. M. Spurlock, left, talks with Board Members Chester Mitchell, Ray Kitten and
Webb Gober following a public hearing held by the Board of Directors February 26
in Lubbock. Spurlock appeared before the Board as a witness.On February 26, 1974, the Board
of Directors of the High Plains Under-
ground Water Conservation District
No. 1 held a public hearing to resolve
a conflict in applications for water
wells on and surrounding a labor of
land located in the "sandhills" area
southeast of Muleshoe in Bailey
County.
A group of investors had reportedly
purchased or agreed to purchase, in
fee, approximately 170 acres of land
which was bordered on three sides by
lands whereunder the water rights had
been purchased by the City of Lub-
bock in the 1950's. The investors,
through their agent, Kenneth Morrison
of Hastings, Nebraska, had made ap-
plications for eight irrigation wells of
eight-inch capacity on the subject land.
Wells on Property Lines
Six of the proposed wells were to be
located on the property lines common
to the City's water rights land. The
group had also reportedly purchased
or agreed to purchase the land surface
of several hundred acres adjoining the
proposed well-site land, whereunder
the City owned the water rights.
0. M. Spurlock, representing the
investors, testified at the public hear-
ing that it was their intent to pump
the groundwater from the proposed
well-field and to use it to irrigate sur-
rounding lands overlying the City's
water rights.
The City had made applications for
three wells of eight-inch capacity atsites offsetting some of the investors'
applications with less than the mini-
mum spacing between wells as re-
quired by the Rules of the District.
Additionally, the City had filed a
written protest with the District con-
testing the granting of the well appli-
cations applied for by the investor
group interests.
In view of the ongoing and wide-
spread development and planned de-
velopment taking place throughout the
sandhills area, the Board decided to
invite testimony from all interested
parties at a public hearing. Testimony
was invited from knowledgeable inch-
viduals concerning the ability of the
sandhills area to support concentrated
well development and any potential
contamination problems that industrial
and municipal waste disposal or con-
centrated irrigation could create.
In conducting this public hearing, it
was the Board of Directors' intent to
bring attention to the problems associ-
ated with the development of the sand-
hills area with the hope that individual
landowners, cities and industries will
approach utilization of the sandhills
with a better understanding of the
fragile ecology involved, the physical
limitations of the aquifer thereunder,
and the potential for the degradation
of the high quality of the groundwater
therein.
Testimony at the public hearing
showed that the wells proposed by
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