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Water
THE BASTROP ADVERTISER AND COUNTY NEWS
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-- Continued from Page 1, Section I
Thursday July 20, 1989
river from Aqua wells on FM 304
and other adjustments (Mi lines from
the Aqua well field at Camp Swift
north of Bastrop.
“If we can get some help from
our citizens the next few days, we
could be able to overcome (the
problem) by the weekend,” Fish-
er said Tuesday.
Watering outdoors during off-
peak hours should also speed an
end to the problem, he added.
On week days the demand peak
tends to occur from 5 p.m. to 8
p.m. Water demand has been heav-
iest on weekends when use has
been high and steady from about
9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Fisher reported.
Water pressure has fallen dan-
gerously low at times along the ci-
ty’s hilly eastern side. Pressure in
the area is lowered sharply when
the water level in the city’s one
million gallon standpipe falls.
Two accidents in the last week
LCRA
of June, compounded by the fol-
lowing long holiday weekend,
depleted the water stored in the
standpipe, officials said.
First a 12-inch main being in-
stalled to serve the new county jail
broke, spilling water until it was
spotted and the line shut off. Then
on June 30, builders at the jail be-
gan flushing the new line but
neglected to shut off a valve as
workers departed for the holiday.
When the oversight was disco-
vered the next morning, the stand-
pipe's water level had been
significantly lowered, Fisher said.
Demand for water since the holi-
day has been so high that the stand-
pipe has not recovered its normal
level, he said.
A serious line break or a major
fire in the next few days would cer-
tainly retard efforts to refill the
standpipe and allow water mains to
be emptied of discolored water.
Continued from Page 1, Section I
Fire danger is high
as temperatures
High daytime temperatures, how
humidity and steady winds are the
classic symptoms of wildfire
danger, officials warned Tuesday.
Much of the county’s vegetation
is still green, but there is ample fuel
available to feed a major fire, said
Bastrop Fire Chief Mike Fisher
who urged area residents to curtail
burning trash or brush outdoors un-
til conditions ease.
Firefighters from Bastrop and
other parts of the county have
responded to a series of and grass
fires in the past week, but none has
turned turned into a major blaze.
If current conditions persist, resi-
dents should realize that they are
unlikely to be able to control an
outdoor fire by themselves, Fish-
er said.
“If they start to bum, they’re go-
ing to be calling (a fire department)
for help,” he said.
BISD
electricity is the expense of percent more,
building and maintaining power At the same time Bluebonnet
plants which are not used most of Electric Cooperative will pay six
the year but which are needed, percent more than the system
sometimes for only a few days or average, while Guadalupe Valley
weeks, in the hottest and coldest Electric Cooperative will pay 41
seasons percent less.
Bastrop’s city council has not San Marcos will pay an
discussed how tQjxiss on the rate estimated 15 percent less than the
increase to locaTOnsumers. The system avarage, while Georgetown
city could institute different rates will pay 30 percent more,
for peak demand months and for Cunningham called the
the off-peak season. disparities unfair and called on
The city could also establish LCRA officials to help customers
.rates which would not directly develop a more equitable rate
reflect the variations in wholesale structure.
rates but would recover the higher At the same time the city
peak demand cost over the course manager said the $3,000 to $4,000
of a year. which Bastrop spent contesting
That could mean that during the LCRA’s original $46 million rate
summer the city would be selling request was money well spent,
power at or below its wholesale By one calculation the rates ap-
C0S( proved by PUC will save the 18
In a City Hall interview Mon- cities which joined Bastrop to fight
day, however, Cunningham was the case about $1.4 million a year
more concerned about why the compared to a settlement propos-
latest increase apparently hits ed by LCRA and accepted by a
Bastrop harder than some other number of customers, including
wholesale customers. some of the larger rural
According to LCRA calculations cooperatives. The same calculation
based on the final PUC rate order, indicates that the proposed settle-
Bastrop will now pay 11 percent ment would have cost Bastrop
more than the average of all LCRA $76,000 more than the PUC final-
customers. Smithville will pay 14 ly allowed.
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words say it for the music?
John Coltratve
Deviney said.
The children would continue to
spend a full day at school, but more
of their activity would be supervis-
ed by aides and other non-
professional personnel, he said.
Only a half-day program is re-
quired by the state.
Deviney said he is reluctant to
give up the district’s goal of
boosting teacher pay at least to
$2,000 over the state minimum by
this fall, but given the apparent
facts of state aid and local taxes for
1989 there may be no way to
achieve it.
Initial calculations suggest that
state aid to Bastrop schools will fall
about $100,000 in the coming year
to an estimated $7.6 million, a
decline of 1.32 percent, Deviney
said.
Under questioning by trustees,
the superintendent conceded his
budget plan is built on some op-
timistic assumptions which
include:
♦Collecting 33 percent more
delinouenf taxes in 1989-90:
■ Continued from Page 1, Section I
♦Collecting 10 percent more in
penalty and interest charges;
♦Collecting 89 percent of 1989
taxes during the year.
To date about 83 percent of 1988
taxes have been collected, district
records show. The 1988-89 budget
assumed an 86 percent collection
rate.
“I’ve stretched it all I can,”
Deviney said. “We cut up front
this year. When you cut this
budget, we’re cutting programs.”
The proposed budget also calls
for $820,000 to repay bond debt,
up from $809,000 in 1988.
In other business Tuesday,
trustees agreed to continue buying
insurance for students who com-
pete in athletics, band and other
UIL-sanctioned extra-curricular ac-
tivities at an annual cost of
$25,600. The same insurance cost
the district about $14,000 last year.
The school board rejected a rival
insurance plan because it offered
significantly less coverage for
$23,914 a year.
LOWER COLORADO RIVER AUTHORITY
MONTHLY WATER QUALITY INDEX
Downstream of Austin - Ratings for June 1989
Rating Scale
jv. Good - 76-100
Fair-51-75
Poor - 50 or below
Water quality at the
Pleasant Valley Road site
was rated "good". Water
quality conditions at this
site were very similar to
conditions normally ob-
served on the Highland
Lakes.
Water Quality Index
ratings for the Colorado
River downstream of Aus-
tin continue to be relatively
low by nutrients in sewage
treatment plant effluent.
However, the release of
high quality water from
the Highland Lakes for rice
irrigation has generally im-
proved water quality in the
river downstream of Aus-
tin. All sites downstream of
the Austin sewage treat-
ment plant discharges
rated "fair”. The nutrients
(nitrogen and phosphorus) wei
apparently removed from the
water between Wharton and Be
City by aquatic plants growing
the river.
For further information, call
1-800-252-3633, Ext. 3372.
Woodside Trails
Buckle Up, Graduates
It’s Your Future
Texas Department of Public Safety
Texas Coalition fc Safety Belts
Continued from Page 1, Section I
The Woodside Trails education
program has been provided
teachers by the Smithville Indepen-
dent School District since moving
into the area after receiving state
approval in 1983, said Blazier.
The emotionally disturbed
youths are mainly sent to Wood-
side Trails by a judge’s order, said
Hardee.
“They are not sent here by the
Texas Youth Commission,” said
Blazier. “We are dealing with 24
boys who don’t have a criminal
record.”
Woodside Trails officials are
planning a community service pro-
ject, said Burke.
things, said Hardee.
“Some of these things were
recovered by the Sheriff s Depart-
ment when the boys were ar-
rested,” said Hardee.
“This isn’t the first incident,”
Hardee emphasized. “This is the
fifth one for me.”
Other residents in the area have
also complained about problems
with runaways from Woodside
Trails.
Hardee is a trustee for the
Smithville Independent School
District and at their regular meeting
on Monday, July 17, said that he
plans to take legal action against
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