The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 154, No. 86, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 22, 2007 Page: 2 of 17
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Page 2A ★ lOc Bastrop Hdocrtiscr
Saturday, December 22,2007 u
atershed study debated Main Strcct
/ the surrounding business
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Commissioners approve $558K for project
i Continued from Page 1A
By Terry Hagerty
Staff Writer
Bastrop County commissioners acknowl-
edge the importance of flood protection
efforts, but on Monday some of the com-
missioners balked — at least initially — at
spending more than $500,000 for flood
mapping studies for area creeks and larger
waterways.
The county is
participating in the
Flood Protection
Planning Study with
the Texas Water
Development Board,
the LCRA and the
U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers.
The study includes
the watersheds within the county that drain
into the Colorado River and will consider
ways to alleviate flooding.
The following creeks will be studied:
Alum, Cedar Creek (and its tributaries ,
Walnut and Sandy creeks), Pin Oak, Gasley
and Willow (near Smithville), Barton,
Wilbarger.
The studjr will be conducted in four
phases over eight years, 2007-2014.
In December 2006, Bastrop County sub-
mitted the initial Flood Protection Grant
Application for Phase I, which was award-
ed and used to establish a regional partner-
ship with LCRA, the Corps and the Water
Board.
Commissioner Clara Beckett told
County Engineer Joe Ternus that some
parts of the projects, including funding for
more detailed contour maps, "needed to be
done," but also questioned further invest-
ment in the project.
The county's current contour maps show
ground delineations in 10-foot intervals.
The new mapping would show contour lines
denoting variations
in elevation of only
two and a half feet,
which would give
a better idea of
water drainage and
potential flooding
during heavy rains,
Ternus explained.
"I have ques-
$2 million project
Commissioner
"I have questions about the
entire $2 million project and
where we're headed,"
- Commissioner Lee Dildy
tions about the entire
and where we're headed,
Lee Dildy added.
When Ternus told the board approxi-
mately half of the $558,000 price tag for
the initial phases of the project would
be covered by the county's collection of
development fees from private develop-
ment contractors, the commissioners were
more amenable.
The commissioners voted 4-0 to contin-
ue with the project. (Commissioner David
Goertz was absent due to the death of his
father, Francis Paul Goertz.)
Shelter
Animal Care and Education"
— claimed the county shelter
is "notorious across Central
Texas" for high rates of ani-
mal illness and death.
"It is important to note
that the Bastrop County
Animal Shelter is not a
selective intake facility,''
Wade said. "The animals
brought into the shelter are
"random source' and with
unknown medical histo-
ries."
Wade also told com-
missioners that the coun-
;Continued from Page 1A
ty's shelter animal eutha-
nasia rate is either below
or approximate to national
averages.
'"According to statistics
acquired from the ASPCA,
nationally, 60 percent of
dogs and 70 percent of cats
are euthanized annually."
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Wade said.
"From January to April
2007, our euthanasia rate
was between 40-58 percent.
From May to November
2007, our low was 53 per-
cent, to a high of 80 percent
(an average of 67 percent)."
Water pipe replacement in
the Main, Spring and Farm
Street areas began in mid-
November and will likely be
completed by the January, as
crews are three weeks ahead
of schedule, Rebecek said.
All four comers of the inter-
section will get new handi-
cap ramps, he added.
The $400,000 water line
replacement project is part
of the city's overall plan to
replace aging pipes, some of
which date back to the late
1800s and are still in use,
said Lee Weatherford, pub-
lic works director.
A similar $ 900,000
project on North Pecan has
already been completed, and
an even larger line replace-
ment project for South Pecan
from Chestnut to Texas 71
will begin early next year
at a cost of $1.6 million,
Weatherford said.
"That's the reason
we keep getting brown
water," Weatherford said.
"Whenever an upset hap-
pens in the distribution, that
manganese gets in there. It's
because of the age of the
pipes."
Center Point Energy also
sent a crew out to replace
2-inch steel gas lines with
2-inch plastic gas lines at
the intersection Wednesday,
as well as relocate the
pipes to a lower position,
said Michael Lindsey with
Center Point. Lindsey said
there had also been a few
gas leaks in the old steel gas
pipes that were taken care of
in the process.
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