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2A—Burleson Star. Monday, July 24. 1989
Johnson County could set example with wastewater study
BY LUCIENDA DENSON
If a wastewater study currently
being conducted for Johnson Coun-
ty produces the results county and
area water district officials are hop-
ing for, the county will become the
prototype for other water districts in
Texas and the nation for wastewater
management.
The second in a series of three
scheduled meetings was held last
Monday evening, July 17, in the
Joshua Middle School cafeteria.
The wastewater study, with a
$140,000 price tag, is jointly
funded. The State of Texas will
finance $70,000, or half of the cost.
The remaining $70,000 will be
shared equally by Johnson County,
Johnson County Fresh Water Sup-
ply District No. One, and Johnson
County Rural Water Supply Corp.
The first meeting held May 23,
1989 was primarily organizational
and informative in nature. At that
meeting, representatives from HDR
Engineering, Inc., the engineering
firm commissioned to do the study,
were introduced. Existing condi-
tions, population and flow pro-
jections by watershed, and water
quality standards were discussed.
Representatives of HDR said
they would be speaking with water
district, county, and municipal
officials as well as Johnson County
business people through most of
June. The data that was obtained
was analyzed and organized prior to
the second meeting.
During Monday's meeting,
Adrian Huckalbee of HDR gave the
audience an overview of popula-
tions projections, the problems that
have been identified, and perceived
primary and alternative solutions.
Two recognized problems, and
the m#|br reasons for the initiation
of the study, are the rapid increase
in population in Johnson County
and the resulting increased use of
septic wastewater systems, and the
need to attract industry to the area.
The importance of attracting
industry locally is two-fold, Ron
Speer, manager of Johnson County
Fresh Water Supply District No.
One, explained last week.
The first, and most obvious, reason
is the need to provide jobs tor
residents in the area. The second is
to create a tax base in addition to
property taxes that will help
generate tax revenue to operate the
county and municipalities within
the county.
If an alternative tax base is not
established, property taxes will
have to be increased to provide suffi-
cient finance the county and muni-
cipal governments and provide
required services.
"Attracting industry is one way
to improve the quality of life here,"
Speer explained.
During Monday's meeting,
Huckalbee said HDR had made pro-
jections through the year 1990 and
the year 2020.
A growing concern of Speer's
is the increased use of septic tanks
in Johnson County. He does not
believe the portion of the aquifer
(underground water) that is the
primary water source for Johnson
County has been polluted by
wastes, but he believes contam-
ination will happen if preventive
measures are not taken now.
Septic systems are a source of
ground pollution that could event-
ually reach the aquifer. As the num-
ber of systems grow, the chances of
underground water contamanation
are increased. Compounding the
problem, he said, are the septic
system resistant soils found in
many areas of the county.
temporary plants will be included in
the mortgage payments.
Because sewer lines are required
for the temporary wastewater treat-
ment centers, homeowners would
not have to bear that expense if the
sub-division was later connected to
a centralized wastewater treatment
facility.
When areas become populous
enough to make tying into cen-
tralized wastewater treatment facil-
ities Financially feasible, the dispo-
sal units can be moved to another
location.
Huckalbee said a viable ap-
proach to regional water quality
management would be to place
septic systems under the jurisdic-
tion of Commissioners Court or of
municipalities. These entities are
empowered by Texas law to control
or prohibit installation or use of on-
site systems.
In addition, he recommended
that connection to a centralized
wastewater system be required if
such a system is nearby. If a
centralized sustem is not available,
he advised upgrading of septic, or
on-site- systems be required, and
that periodic inspections be manda-
tory.
treatment facilties will not take
waste from septic tanks. Village
Creek in Fort Worth is presently
accepting septic waste, but may
discontinue that service in the
future. A possible alternative would
be a high lime treatment for the
pumped out waste. The waste
would still need to be disposed of
in sludge lagoons, in landfills, or
by land aplication.
Another alternative could-be to
build transfer plants like Village
Creek within the boundaries of the
county.
Both alternatives have signif-
icant price tags nearing or exceed-
ing $1 million.
Speer said land application was
becoming an increasingly popular
method of disposing of solid waste,
but he anticipated the Environ-
mental Protection Agency (EPA) to
outlaw that practice because of
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Huckalbee said HDR’s projec-
tions indicated that there would still
be a significant number of septic
systems in Johnson County by the
year 2020. "Even if all new growth
and all towns are sewered, there
would be nearly 50,000 people
using on-site (septic) systems in
2020," he said.
A possible alternative is the
use of temporary centralized waste-
water treatment systems that have
already been approved for use by the
Johnson County Commissioners
Court. These small centralized units
are self-contained and often cost less
per residence than individual septic
systems. In addition, if temporary
facilities are put in place when sub-
divisions in unsewered areas are
built, the installation costs of the
Alternative solutions recom-
mended included low pressure
dosing, evapotraspiration beds, and
home aeriation systems. Huckalbee
estimated these solutions could
easily cost $5,000, although costs
of installation vary.
A more immediate problem is
disposal of solid waste from septic
systems, Huckalbee said.
He estimated that by 1990,
there would be 15,667 unsewered
homes in Johnson County.
Assuming 1,000 gallons of waste
would be pumped out of each
system one time every four years,
48,000 gallons of solid waste must
be disposed of each working day.
"This is too much for any
existing plant in Johnson County,"
Huckalbee said. He estimated that it
would be at least a 25 percent BOD
load increase even to Cleburne's
plant, the largest in the county.
Disposal of solid waste from
these systems is already impacting
waste treatment. Many wastewater
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attend and be the two voting mem-
bers. All other members who attend
arc paid for through the state grants.
Each program gets two votes, no
matter the size of the city, at the
international conference, which will
be in Albuquerque in August of this
year.
"We have just as much say as
Dallas," Nash said.
THE BURLESON Crimestop-
per board always has good atten-
dance at the trainings. It has also
helped other communities start a
Crimestopper program.. Burleson
helped .Hood County start one there
and is presently helping Denton.
"It's a little area helping a big
area," Nash said.
Crimestoppers is looking for
new members to fill some recent
vacancies.
"We invite citizens to call one of
us and attend the meetings," Nash
said. Crimestoppers meets every
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ADA FAYE GREEN
Funeral services for Ada Faye
Green, 79, of Burleson, took place
Saturday, July 22, at2p.m. at Laurel
Land Memorial Chapel with the
Rev. Craig Virc officiating. Burial
was at Bethesda Cemetery.
Green died Thursday, July 20,
1989, at Huguley Hospital. Green
had been a resident of an Alvarado
nursing home. She was a housewife
and a Baptist.
Green was bom March 6,1910,
in Johnson County to Mary Pearl
and James W. Wicker. She married
Guy Green on June 8,1931 in Mari-
etta, Okla.
Her husband preceded her in
death in 1983.
Green is survived by two sons,
Joe Green and Wallace Green, both
of Burleson; one daughter, Mary Lee
Grant of Burleson; four brothers,
Rose Wicker of Alvarado, Monroe
Wicker of Joshua, Neal Wicker of
Burleson, and J.W. Wicker of Fort
Worth; two sisters, Lee Wood of Del
City, Okla., and Hazel Moore of
Burleson; nine grandchildren; and
12 great-grandchildren.
Laurel Land' of Burleson
handled the funeral arrangements.
heavy metal contamination from
industry. If the EPA did not outlaw
the practice, he said, processes the
agency would require to eliminate
heavy metal from solid waste
would be so financially prohibitive,
land application would no longer be
a cost effective method of waste
disposal.
Depending on the methods
used, Johnson County residents
may be looking at monthly sewage
bills ranging from $45 to $123 in
the 1990s to bills ranging from $20
to $50 by 2020, Huckalbee
estimated.
Last week Speer said that how
wastewater is handled now and in
the future may be as important as
water is to Johnson County and the
Metroplex area.
"We cannot attract industry to
this area without water and effective
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wastewater management," he said.
The problem of supplying
water is in the process of being
solved through a contract with the
Brazos River Authority. Speer
acknowledged that the price of water
for Johnson County Fresh Water
Supply District No. One customers
is high, and cited his own water bill
as evidence of that.
"What we're paying now may
be higher than other places around
us," he said, "but in a very short
time, other places are going to be
wishing they had the same rates as
ours.”
He cited a growing shortage of
available water and increased re-
strictions by the EPA for waste-
water treatment as factors that
would excelerate the cost of water in
the Central and North Central Texas
areas.
"What we are doing now wilL
Please see RATES, pg. 6
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Batman Strikes!
Jason Horn, son of Jim and Tricia Horn of Burleson, was so awed by
Batman that he decided get it shaved into his head. Kitty Suratt of
Kdty and Company didJhe honors.
third Tuesday of the month at noon at
the BISD building. The board dis-
cussed having an orientation for all
new members.
"It's a triangle—the community,
local police, and communications
people," Nash said. "Without any of
these three working together harmo-
niously it won't work. That Is the
backbone and that's why we appreci-
ate all the help we have here in Burle-
son."
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