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Page 4 News Bulletin Thursday, March 31, 2011
Multiple board members stand around the plans of the transportation center while
architect Roland De La Garza and Director of Maintenance Tommy Ellison explain the
changes made. (Photo by Alicia Ramirez)
New La Coste elementary on
track to be ready in the fall
Alicia Ramirez
Staff Writer
With more cooperative
weather and the addition of
more workers, the new La
Coste Elementary School is
on track to be ready for next
school year with teacher
move-ins scheduled to take
place later this summer.
“We should have the air
ity down,” said Facilities
Director Tommy Ellison.
“That allows us to start a
lot of the interior work.”
Once the interior work
begins, the outside of the
Ellison: “A lot of the con-
struction is going to shift
inside and it’s going to be
looking like it’s done.”
Water restrictions just a drop away
Alicia Ramirez The first sign of a mers as do morning glories,
Staff Writer drought is the issuance of rosemary, roses and cac- A
With Edwards Aquifer a burn ban, which Medina tus plants according to the e
levels falling steadily since County has been under AgriLife Extension Office
October of last year, it is no since Nov. 22 due to lack of a website.
surprise that the Edwards good rain since September,
Aquifer Authority has
issued a release urging vol-
untary water conservation.
“We’re starting to see
more water use because
that’s normally what hap-
pens at this time of year
and we’re starting to see
but further than that, the
lack of rain affects road con-
ditions.
“It affects the road
“We think that if we can
encourage people enough to
start conserving now and
doing what they can, we
still may not be able to avoid
maintenance and building Stage 1 restrictions but we
because you need a certain may be able to delay them,”
amount of moisture for that said Ruiz, “and maybe we
or else it starts getting real could delay them enough
more irrigation because dusty and starts falling that we get some rainfall in
farmers have crops in the apart and that’s just anoth- the region to help replenish
ground now and as the er cost factor,” said County the aquifer levels.”
weather warms up, we start Judge Jim Barden. “All we
Ruiz hopes that by
to see more water use as can do is ask people to use encouraging people to cut •
people start to get more con- less water.” back on their water con-
cerned about their lawns,” The biggest use of water sumption, the mandatory
said EAA Assistant General comes from people watering restrictions can be delayed.
Manager Roland Ruiz. “Not gardens or yards and irri- To help conserve water,
only is water use going up gating crops planted during the EAA recommends
but it will continue to go the spring and summer. installing water saving
up as we’ve seen histori- “Where we see the most showerheads, fixing any •
cally through the seasonal waste, is in outdoor use,” leaks in the home, watering
cycles and that’s why we’re said Ruiz. “We certainly during the coolest parts of
concerned that we’re going encourage people to look the day and limiting shower
to hit that Stage 1 much there first and now might time:
sooner than most people be a good time for people to “I don’t like [droughts],”
would like.”
Stage 1 water restric-
consider what they’re doing said Barden. “We live and
in their lawns and in their
tions go into effect once the gardens. If you’re planting
10-day average falls below for the spring, try to use
660 feet. The 10-day aver- plants that are drought tol-
age is currently hovering erant that don’t require a
around 665 feet with daily lot of water.”
Ellison is known for levels staying at the 663 Cedar and live oak trees
his cautious optimism of feet mark for the past cou- thrive in South Texas sum-
building would look as if the completion, and he said ple of days.
it is practically finished, that he has never been more “Last year at this time,
Currently, the roof is close optimistic. the aquifer levels were
to being completed, win-
dows are starting to be put
conditioning up and running up and once the AC is on,
in the first part of April,” tile flooring will start to go
said Construction Site in and the electricians and
Supervisor Dusty Dees. plumbers are completely on
“The key thing about track to finish on time.
getting the AC on and why “This next month that
that is such a pivotal point building is going to make a
is that we get the humid- very major transition,” said
“Everything is looking roughly 14 feet higher than
okay,” said Ellison. “We’ll they are today and the rea-
be good. I’m always worried son they were that high
and always concerned, but last year at this time was
at this particular time of because we were coming
the job, right now, I have off of a rainy season,” said
never been more optimistic Ruiz. "We had had a rainy
that that job will get done fall and a rainy winter and
than I am now. It’s just get- so it really helped us in the
ting closer and closer.” aquifer level.”
D
chose to live in a semi-arid
area and so it’s kind of to
be expected. We go through
these periods every so often
and unfortunately we seem
to be going into another bad
one.”
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News Bulletin (Castroville, Tex.), Vol. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 31, 2011, newspaper, March 31, 2011; Castroville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1707482/m1/4/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Castroville Public Library.