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Good morning. The time is at a clock. Welcome to the May 23rd meeting of the sense in a river

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authority. If you would please stand with me for the pledge and the invocation.

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And please remain standing in the invocation.

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Let's put together.

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Lord, I love you, and I thank you for the opportunity you give us to assemble together.

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We thank you for your creation.

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We thank you for the provision in our lives that you allow us to just have a small glimpse

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of your beauty.

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Father, we thank you for what you've done for us on the cross.

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We thank you for the team you've assembled here, and Father, I just ask you to give them wisdom,

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give them your wisdom, so they can make decisions that glorify you and help your people.

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Father, we love you. We'll give you the praise and all the glory. It's in Jesus' name. We pray. Amen.

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Amen. How many combinations?

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Okay. The next item on the agenda is public comments. Before we get started, let me say just a few words. First of all, we appreciate each of you who have taken time out of your day to attend this meeting.

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For those of you who may be first time visitors or speakers, when your name is called, please come to the front.

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up here. I have a seat at the desk. Speakers are allocated three minutes. The light at your desk will be green

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yellow and then red when your time is up. In the past, when we have had speakers, I have occasionally

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allowed them to exceed the three minute timeframe, but we have several speakers today, so I would

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appreciate it if you could stay within that three-minute allocation,

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if you go over, I'll

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probably just gently remind you that you've exceeded your three-minute time limit.

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So, with that first speaker on the agenda, is Mr. Rigby Owen, Mr. Owen?

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I'll turn it on.

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The reason I'm here today, before I start, I'm not here to talk about the flood, because I couldn't

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to the lower level of Lake, my house did flood, so I had to buy, I'm going to tear that million

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dollar home down, and we brought a new home in the Baltimore State, so. I'm not mad. I just

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know what happened. What I'm mad about is when I read the statement of the new GM, our primary

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goal is to protect the dam.

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Once again, anyway, that's by Fox News, what about the flooding? Once

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Again, our role is the main team, the integrity of the dam, and as we have rainfall and stormy

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vents, Mother Nature does that.

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I really couldn't believe I was reading that.

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So what I have done, if you haven't looked at it, you all have a master plan for this river

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authority.

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You ought to look it up if you haven't read it.

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The River Authority Master Plan was for the full scale development of the San Jaceno River,

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just from 1957.

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On page 16, the name of the San Jaceno River Authority was adopted in 1951 by an act of

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the Texas legislature, replacing the old name, San Jaceno conservation and reclamation

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district, but otherwise leaving its objectives and purpose unchanged.

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Although the development of the River as a source of water supply is a primary concern,

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The conservation and reclamation of salt and lances, as well as the control of runoff waters, are equally important.

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The board feels that by initiating practice to control runoff waters, great and lasting good can be achieved.

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The idea for the creation of the authority was originated by Mr. O.F.

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who I knew very well, who had first become acquainted with the reclamation work in the far west in the early days of the century.

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moved to Conno in 1910 and after observing the prolificate, waste of soil and water in the

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St. Senator Valley became convinced that some type of river authority was essential.

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The legislation created in the authority was done in January 1937 by a representative

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Robert A. Powell, I knew his son very well went to school with him. The primary purpose

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of the bill. Number one, protect the soil from erosion. Number two, to

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provide flood control to aid and encourage reforcentization, to build a series of small

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dams along the river at the same center river, tributaries, and impact on water which could

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be so to mean it's about the industries and agriculture, and to stock the streams and impact

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of water with fish in a depth of a forest area with the gain from preservation of wildlife.

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New board members were elected in 1943 of one, I'm in which was my wife's uncle,

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In fact, she had another uncle settled on this board.

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The city of Houston, the city of Houston proposed constriction of a damn near Houston

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and his cause, the authority at all, to some of the original planes.

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That's when the first dam was to be the late Creek, and went over and moved it over

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here.

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The same sand to sand and rear with authority was adopted in 2001.

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The authority was created as a conservation reformation district, which primarily

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He did with flood control and protection and navigation, water supply for domestic use, soil

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conservation, restoration and recreation.

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Can is a walker, Montgomery, and San Jose in that part of Liberty County within the

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San Jose and water shed.

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These are areas within the limits of the authority.

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The authority has piled to issue negotiable bonds, secure its content and the water

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we know that.

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The act, which includes the equation of the lands required for water supply and for control

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recurrent devastating floods in the Valley of the San Luis General River. The authority

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recognizes that the peace, meat, and hasty development of the San Luis General River is a

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source of water supply would bring only temporary benefit to a few. That's how it is planned.

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This is my general reminder on the time. I appreciate that. If you give me a general

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just a minute, I'll be through.

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The authorities plan, therefore, is one that will lead to a

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and complete development of the watershed for all conservation purposes and for fair treatment

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of the rights of all residing within the area.

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Any other program would only lead to inequities between various...

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Sections and groups in hinder or prevent maximum utilization of the region's natural resources, which must provide maximum benefit for the entire populace.

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For the flood control, for the prevention of devastation of lands from recurring overflow in the production of life and property in the San Jose and the watershed, for months control flood waters, to encourage and protect navigation.

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As the authorities plan to extend it, we necessary to build dams, reservoirs, and channel improvements.

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These installations will greatly aid the water movement.

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The proposed improvements will also provide storage facilities and enable the authority to make full use of the St.

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Center River, the source of water supply.

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The water share of the St. Center Center, this is the last pay.

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The water share of the St. Center Center and the lower value of the river have been ravaged by recurrent floods for many years.

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These floods have not caused a deplorable loss of life and property, but have also carried off untold

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millions of tons of prime topsoils which have depleted the fertility land and the valley.

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In addition, the floods sweep down year after year out of the watershed area have been

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undated public highway structures, lands blowing the state of Texas, traffic and commerce have been

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disputed.

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Navigation on the lower part of the Santa Santa has also suffered from these recurring floods

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During the spring and flood of 1929, the River Dumplars

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deposits slipped, sailed into the Houston Ship Channel,

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which prevented vessels from entering

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or leaving the port of Houston for five days.

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In 1935, sealed deposits in the channel resulted

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in another flood along the Chanda Center

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disruptive shipping for three days.

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The authority has one of its objectives,

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the protection of navigation on the other part of the river,

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as well as the program of flood control,

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which will offer relief and habitance within the river and its tributaries.

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To sit and act like the only thing you have to do is protect the dam, is a dam lie.

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You have to protect the people.

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If you have any concern for people that are less fortunate than you,

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I was raised to believe that.

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I was also raised by Dad one time when I was about 20, I was in Newspaper Bill and I

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bitched about something.

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He said, you know what, if you've got a problem with something, you better have a better

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idea than what you're doing.

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Otherwise don't bitch about it and he was totally correct.

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My mom always felt me, you've got to feel for the last fortunate.

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It's not that they're poor.

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They may not be poor but they may just be less fortunate about things that happen.

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And this is what I think we've all forgotten, you forgot what we're here for.

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And you can do these dams, I've printed a copy of the dams for you, sir, in case you

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haven't seen what you're supposed to be doing, here they are, hand them out.

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You need to look at what you're supposed to be doing.

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It's all in this map that was drawn up for this valley.

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And we wouldn't be having the flooding we have on the east for the river or down there

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example, our king would, our wherever a heck you might be or living, if we did what we need

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to do.

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And it won't be done overnight, it should have been done 20 years ago or 30 years ago.

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When the built this relate, we had about 40,000 people in Montgomery County.

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We now have nearly over 700,000, and everybody's building and water's moving, and we

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have done nothing, but we need to get the federal government in the state and get these dead

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damn's built and war and saw this flooding problem. And you people have to stand up, have a

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backbone and speak up and don't be man-be-pambi and do nothing. You have to be forescaled. You have to

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be brave. You have to talk to the governor who puts you in here and these senators that put you in

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here and get them to get off their ducks. We got billions in the state. Maybe we're not

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not going to be warned so much about spending $12 billion down here at that goofy border.

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And spend so many up here saw in this flooding problem as caused in billions of dollars

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in damage. In this place in all these lives, I happen to be fortunate enough, I can destroy

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this million dollar home I live in and ride it off and then sell my waterfront lots. Hopefully

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to recoup some of it. I bought a new home. Most people can't do what I've done. And I feel

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sorry for them and I feel like also in this plan you're supposed to provide recreation on the

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waters that you encompass. And that's why my good friend Henry Brooks who served in your

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So on this board, got them to buy this land next door with this park was for a park.

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See, your mayor kind of recreation home.

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That's really good.

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I'm leaving.

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But I think you need to reopen the park.

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Replenish some of your regroup.

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Recoup.

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Some of your lost personality with the public.

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I think that would be a big long effort. Thank you so much. But have some compassion. That's what I'm saying.

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And if you have compassion, you get busy and buck up and look at these, look at the dad gun map I gave you.

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And see where these dams ought to be. And if you haven't ever looked at it, it's on your website.

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It's easy to pick up and it's easy to read. Don't come tell me the whole issue we have is preserve the integrity of the dam.

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Thanks, Mr. Speaker.

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Chris Black.

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Mr. Black.

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Good morning.

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My name is Chris for Block, and I'm a 76-year-old retired engineer who is

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lived in Kingwood since 1975.

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Since my retirement, I have spent considerable time analyzing the drainage of the

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San Jose Center River, Rodditchette.

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I've concluded there is an alternate approach to seasonal lowering of light

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The alternate approach proposed is based on management of flood-playing detention of the West

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Kingwood residents have been repeatedly impacted by flooding in recent years.

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Many in the community are overly alarmed each time Lake Conro releases water.

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There is no doubt high water release rates from Lake Conro add to peak river flows in

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the Kingwood area.

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However, most Kingwood residents do not understand the actual impact of these releases.

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Only a small percentage of the water released from Lake Conro will add to peak water

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elevations at Kingwood and Lake Houston.

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Most of the water Lake Conro releases is detained in floodplains of the West Fort between

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Lake Conro and Lake Houston.

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In the last storm, Lake Conro released water at a maximum rate of 71,835 cubic feet per second.

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However, the USGS gauge site at Highway 105 only assured distance from the dam.

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Recorded a maximum effective discharge rate of 67,300 cubic feet per second. The difference is due to

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water detained in the floodplain between the dam and the U.S. G.S. gauge site at Highway 105. A similar

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effect is experienced as released water fills additional floodplains along the river's path to Lake

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Consideration of an effective discharge rate is a key concept in a more dynamic approach to maintaining

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lake-conward water levels and provided needed flood mitigation to downstream residents.

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The alternate approach proposed is to maximize releases early in a storm event to utilize

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the detention capacity of the Westfork flood lanes.

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This approach will conserve lake-conward detention capacity to limit discharge near the end

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of a storm when downstream flooding typically occurs.

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The watershed of the west fork and its tributaries covers a vast area.

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Flood planes of this watershed can be obtained significant volumes of flood waters before

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any structural flooding occurs.

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Managing releases using a protocol based on effective release rates to manage downstream flood

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plane levels can be implemented.

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This protocol would not require a seasonal lowering of Lake Conroy.

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I believe it would also be possible following a storm to retain more water in Lake Conroy.

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This will benefit the city of Houston and all other users who depend on the valuable water resource that Lake Conroy represents.

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Thank you.

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May I say something?

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Mr. Block, I have your alternate approach. I will share with the other board members.

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Okay, the entire eight four sheets or whatever.

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Okay, okay.

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Thanks, Speaker.

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Mr. Bill Baron.

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So I get your name correctly.

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Yes, he did.

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Thank you, sir.

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Good morning.

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My comments are really a question to you folks.

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If the Longstar Groundwater Conservation District was to

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to revert back to the original 64,000 acre foot per year, aquifer restrictions.

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Would you be willing and able and secondly, hauling would take to ramp up and accommodate

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the surface of the water deliveries that you would need to meet the demand?

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We're

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not able to respond to comments during this particular part of the session.

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We take lots of notes when our individual speak and so we will try to address those issues for you.

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Okay, I think it's important to have it as public notice that these are answered and could be done publicly.

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Thank you.

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Thank you very much.

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Kevin License.

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Morning, Kevin.

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Good morning.

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Luis is a little frog in allergies, so apologies for that.

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Kevin Lacy, president of the LCA, here today for two reasons.

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The most important one is to say thank you to the SJRA employees.

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People on both sides of the dam, it was your efforts, the work night, and weekends 24

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seven to follow what we know is a well-established damn protection protocols as it

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regards to lake levels and releases. It's a difficult job, but we thank you and we

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thank you to the great job in January and a great job under very dire circumstances in

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this last one. I also am here to listen to the post-mortem to see what we can learn

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what we can do better in regards to that and I have one suggestion. But I want to say it's

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disappointing, not surprising that people, on both sides of the dam, are critical of your efforts.

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People, mostly, are not aware of the constraints and the facts about living on Lake

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Conro, or downstream of the Lake Conro, and had damages from the floodwater.

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They look for someone to blame.

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These two major ran events of 2024 are not unprecedented, but as with all of these rare events,

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there were some unique factors.

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The rapid rise of the lake to level beyond 203 MSL give people little time to secure their property which starts having damages at about 203 certainly at 204 and above and certainly at 205.

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We have some significant flooding in some low-level properties in spite of the 207 flood control limit.

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We would ask if there's any way communication could be improved, that would be the best

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action to take.

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Any time levels are expected to exceed 203, but especially 204 higher, any notices to this

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effect would be very helpful even with a range of uncertainty.

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We strongly recommend that we proceed with the active storm management agreement and place

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priority on the permissions needed from the TCQ.

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We've been waiting on that for some time.

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And the original reasons for Lake Low-Rain to avoid complicated the needed dreadoring of the West

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work were well supported, temporary.

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The extension in 2020 was not based on any technical merit, but based upon a political promise

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to have Lake Houston Dam's Billway Project operational bike today.

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That has not happened.

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We are now seven years post-harvey with minimal progress on the spillway project.

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The spotlight should be turned on these delays and failures not only in the Congress,

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I do agree with the previous speaker, there are some downstream projects that can mitigate

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the releases in the flow and that should be looked at at Harris County and Montgomery County.

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I know your job is to protect the dam and a dam failure would be horrendous. In addition,

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you're holding back with your dam 40 to 60 percent of the inflow. Those are the facts that people need

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to understand and how difficult the job is. Thank you.

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Thank you, Mr. Slissier. Your comments are

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Thank you so much, appreciate it.

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Thank you, Kruger.

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Did we save the best for last?

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No, thanks so, Mr.

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But, good morning and thank you for affording me a few minutes of your time.

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Again, I note that our beautiful man-made God-filled lake is full to the very brim.

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Even after another month, where you sold all the water that your customers needed

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or wanted to buy.

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And it's still full.

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Our lake and our state of Texas

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Overflows with blessings.

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Thank you for your public service here today. With the reigns of last month, I'd like to publicly thank

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Brett and the late Conroad Division for their watchfulness and timely operations. Obviously serving

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24-7 to protect the public and public resources. I think they've done that as well as we could ask. And if that wasn't active storm management,

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I really like to see how active storm management's defined where they didn't do a good job because they did.

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And all by the way, your permit doesn't allow you to impound anything higher than 201.

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That's in the permit.

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Heather and the communications team did a great job in terms of getting out timely notices of the critical operations that Brett and the Lake Conroad Division executed.

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Thank you, and I commend Mr. Spear relatively new for his well-conducted interview with that Fox 26 television reporter from Houston.

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So with communications being so important and with Governor Abbott's revisit here to this region,

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just three Mondays ago in the Convo, I'm reminded that the Governor's very concise,

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three directives per his March 2018 press release have really not been accorded any concise

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public response by the authority. Six years of fast for each of those three

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directives. One sentence each, what has the authority accomplished to date?

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What

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short progress, you could give the governor what he asked for, and what Lloyd

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Tissdale intended.

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The public continues to have patience as Mr. Tissdale asked the public to

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have.

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You've done much with selected stakeholders and closed meetings, but that's not

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enough.

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A concise public response is still needed for all of the served public.

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Certainly for your rate payers, it's overdue as a corporate board action, and

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Your new GM is the guy that can benefit the most from this, as a corporate board action,

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not individual board members.

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Quickly regarding item 6A, I'll leave one sentence on this.

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You're fine.

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I'd suggest that the authority staff has a host of project management questions you consider

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before the board should approve the spending and further engineering services.

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These freezing nickels, great firm, they'll be there to do the work when you're ready for

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me to do the work.

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You're not ready for me to do the work, specifically what needs to be looked at is having

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a sustainable plan for O&M of these structures before they're built.

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If it's there, it's not anywhere that I see on your website or in the read it.

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I thank all of you board members for willingly taking on the responsibility of public service.

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It's certainly not easy.

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You certainly have many perspectives coming here.

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And if I can ever be able to help and answer any questions as well as raising questions, then give me a call.

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I'd be happy to do it.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Dan.

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We appreciate all the comments and the speakers.

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At this time, we have division updates.

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Yes.

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do have a few comments.

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I'd like to make, I want to just limit and focus my comments and updates on what I call

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the May Day storm event, a more detailed presentation regarding this storm event, we'll be

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provided by our staff following my remarks, so that you get a better idea of what transpired.

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First and foremost, I express my deepest sympathies for those impacted by this rainy band, that

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dropped as much as 18 inches of rain in some of our upper parts of this light-conroad watershed.

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And throughout the San Juicino River Basin, causing major flooding in areas upstream of

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and like used, I pray for these people who've been impacted and as they seek to recover and rebuild their lives.

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We do take our responsibility seriously and rainwater from nine watersheds flow into Lake Houston.

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However, only one of these water sheds has a water supply reservoir, like conrum, that passes

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rainwater downstream, at a reduced peak flow rate.

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The rest of the water sheds, the water comes as Mother Nature sends it and is it flows

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down the river.

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During this Mayday rain event, weather forecasts change frequently.

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Even the day before the largest rain hit, a rainfall hit, the national weather service

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predictions included a high degree of uncertainty of where the most rain would fall and

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how much would fall, making it very difficult to be prepared for that.

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But we were, even each rain event, as you all know,

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has a unique rainfall pattern.

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This event included several waves of rain.

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Over several days, one of the most significant

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amount of intense rainfall falling in the lake,

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conral watershed upstream, in a very short period of time.

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Since I'll call it this rain bomb, fell upstream of Lake Conro Dam over half of the peak

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inflow of 150,000 cubic feet per second, was mitigated as rainwater pass through our gates

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downstream.

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I couldn't imagine what flooding would look like if we had not did not have this reservoir

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to mitigate some of that peak inflow.

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Our late-conro dam gate operations policy includes optimizing and balancing the lake levels

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and downstream releases, while protecting the integrity of the gates and the dam.

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I commend our staff, particularly late-conro and flood management divisions, as well as our

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all takers and others.

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For their tireless and conscientious effort, night and day during this event, to optimize the gate operations during storm event and to respond to public inquiries, which were quite a few.

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And speaking of that, timely and frequent communication is paramount in this type of natural

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disaster.

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Communication with the public, communication with emergency managers, communication with

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public officials at the local state and federal levels, communication with weather authorities.

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All of that, which we did.

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And I commend our communications staff for their effort.

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The public can see our lake levels and alphas almost instantaneously online.

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And we know that they were watching because we got calls every time there was movement either way.

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And we also have a widely circulated email that updates various interested parties on our

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If anyone desires to receive these emails, please go to SJRI.net and sign up on our home page

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and you will receive those emails during this type of event.

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On the Monday following the flooding event, Governor Abbott visited Montgomery County

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for a private briefing by local officials, including myself, along with the press conference

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for the public. I express my appreciation for the Governor's support and his feedback

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that he gave. I also appreciate several of our elected officials who were there present

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and expressed their satisfaction with how the SJRA team communicated with the public

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and operated the dam during this event.

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I also want to commend this board, all of these

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board members for their actions and feedback during and after the storm event.

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All of them, without exception, were engaged in providing feedback from their constituents

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around the lake, in the woodlands, on down to the Kingwood area, they were providing

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us invaluable feedback in helping us understand concerns from citizens from both upstream

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and downstream.

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And that's greatly appreciated and desired.

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Now we're busy with after-action reviews.

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And believe me, we've already had quite a few of those.

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To find ways to improve our mitigation efforts

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during flood future flood events,

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we've met with Harris County Flood Control District

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and have additional meetings set up with them.

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Montgomery County Judge Mark Kio and his staff.

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Harris County Commissioner Tom Ramsey and also Kevin Lacy with the Light Conroy Association.

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We will meet this afternoon with Houston's Mayor Whitmire and his staff.

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All of these meetings are including discussions on how to improve our flood mitigation efforts

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in this region. On all nine watersheds that contribute to the Lake Houston area. And so with

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this, we understand what our commission is to lead in flood mitigation efforts in the

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San Jose Center River Basin. We also know that we have some constraints. We have projects

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that are ongoing right now to help, but the funding sources is where we have to rely

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upon partnerships and connecting different funding sources together so that we can have

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the funds necessary to build some of these mitigation structures that would be very helpful

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in future floods.

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With that, I just want, that's all the comments that I have regarding this event and I appreciate everyone's public comments today as well.

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All of them will be taken to heart and integrated into our path forward. Thank you.

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We have a few other division updates before we make the presentation.

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Ed, did you have something you wanted to speak about regarding the mud elections that occurred just last week?

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A couple of things, yes, sir.

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Thank you.

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On the, I guess it was May 4th election.

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The woodlands muds, there are 10 muds that we serve through the woodlands water agency.

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They had a number of my director positions up a reelection out of 22 positions, 17 new directors were seated.

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And so we are, which is a big turnover.

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And then two years ago we had a sizable turnover also of the director.

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So we have a lot of educating to do.

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What our role is with the Will of Water Agency in the various months.

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and we have a date set for June 7th to do some of that orientation with those

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months and then Woodland Water Agency will also do a separate orientation

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kind of let them know what their role is as a mud director but we do have a lot

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of work ahead of us to bring them up to date on our projects and some of the

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activities that we are planning over the next 10 years.

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I do have one other thing to add, Chris, you might not stand in it.

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He's standing up on behalf of his wastewater team, but we received, he received the letter

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from the National Association of Clean Water Agency informing SRA that two of our treatment

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plans have reached Platinum's peak performance status, and that is for compliance of all the

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requirements for over five years and it's wastewater treatment plant two and treatment

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plant number three. And there's a number behind it. One has platinum six. The other one

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has platinum 17. Is that the number of years we're in compliance? So if you think about

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17 years of compliance and so it's great to receive this acknowledgement and we're putting

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together a multimedia presentation to be presented at the National Conference and what

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gradually crescent his team if they were.

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That's it for me.

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Okay, so I believe the other update that we have is as I mentioned a few minutes ago,

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we will hear from Brett Rayley, Lake Conroy Division, and he will give President

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Presentation on the most recent weather event.

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Good morning, everyone.

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As Aubrey said, I've been asked to give some additional and more specific information related to the event that happened in late April, early May.

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Much of what I'm going to talk about, you've heard today from our speakers in Aubrey as well, but hopefully I'll have some more detailed information for you.

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Thank you.

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A couple of things that, you know, you've heard this before for me and if anyone's attended the board meetings,

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it is our number one priority particularly that of myself and my team to preserve and protect the structural integrity of the dam.

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As has been mentioned today, if we did not do that, then the ramifications would be unimaginable.

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So we talk about protecting public safety by protecting the dam. I can tell you we are protecting public safety.

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how do we do that? Well, we do it through a vigorous inspection and maintenance program.

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I'd be so we do host event assessments, which we are in the midst of right now.

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And of course, executing safe spillway operations.

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As Aubrey indicated, this is the upper part of the Sanctuary River Basin.

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And we call it the upper part as all those nine different watersheds all drained of Lake Houston.

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And also, as Aubrey said, ours is at the very, very top of what I sometimes refer to as a funnel.

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With the bottom of the funnel being, like Houston, the top funnel being the Lake Honour Watershed.

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It's only 450 square miles, but it's the only structure on the entire system that has controlled gated structure.

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The nine watersheds that flow in a couple of seven different counties, and so the point that was made earlier can't be stressed enough that in any given event, as it was said, all rain events are different, but in any given event, the rain may fall upwards in the water shed, lower water shed, you may remember a melda, the water fell south of the day, and every storm is different.

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Some background on the dam and its permitting.

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So the dam was constructed pursuant to a permit from the state of Texas.

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It does authorize us to store up to an elevation of 201 above meansy level permanently.

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We do have the authorization to store above 201 temporarily during storm flows.

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The permit also allows us our requires, as I should say, to pass in flows once the

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lake level gets above 201 above mean sea level.

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Another important thing that I hope everyone will take is that there are permit restrictions

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that go along, many permit restrictions, one of which is that any water that is released

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below 201, so not for passing in flows, must be used at a permitted

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water rights. So there must be first a permitty with available water. And then that permitty

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can ask to use the water. In this case, SGRAs permitted water is all accounted for with

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00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:21,540
customers. The city of Houston may have from time to time water that's available and is so

443
00:41:21,540 --> 00:41:22,720
they can call on it.

444
00:41:25,230 --> 00:41:28,190
Today I'm really going to focus other than this preliminary things that

445
00:41:28,190 --> 00:41:33,550
I mentioned on three key points. The first one being that water that rises above two or two

446
00:41:33,550 --> 00:41:37,210
But what that rises above, tool-wing means sea level,

447
00:41:37,650 --> 00:41:39,150
cannot be held back.

448
00:41:39,750 --> 00:41:41,370
And I'm going to go down and show some slides

449
00:41:41,370 --> 00:41:43,370
and I'm going to go into why that is the case.

450
00:41:44,550 --> 00:41:48,250
Also, as I've mentioned earlier, just the operations

451
00:41:48,250 --> 00:41:52,670
of our Tenergate system and our operating protocol has the effect

452
00:41:52,670 --> 00:41:55,270
of mitigating peak downstream flows.

453
00:41:57,170 --> 00:42:03,150
And we cannot pre-release water since we don't have any water

454
00:42:03,150 --> 00:42:08,790
available unless the city of Houston asks for some of their water, and as a matter of

455
00:42:08,790 --> 00:42:14,230
course, SGARA does not pre-release for a number of reasons that have been well-documented

456
00:42:14,230 --> 00:42:16,150
and can be found on our website.

457
00:42:20,210 --> 00:42:23,130
So getting to keep point number one not being able to hold water.

458
00:42:23,850 --> 00:42:28,650
As has been stated, Lake Conro is a water supply reservoir, and the diagram, the two diagrams

459
00:42:28,650 --> 00:42:33,230
at the right help distinguish the difference between water supply reservoir and flood control

460
00:42:33,230 --> 00:42:33,730
reservoir.

461
00:42:33,730 --> 00:42:41,510
In a water supply reservoir, the intent is to keep the reservoir as full as possible to maintain your supply.

462
00:42:42,670 --> 00:42:48,570
In a flood control reservoir, you want to maintain capacity, you want to maintain space that can accept inflow.

463
00:42:49,270 --> 00:42:52,450
So that you can absorb that water before having the pass.

464
00:42:53,530 --> 00:43:00,810
We have at our dam, with our tenor gates, we have very limited freeboard, which is the space between, as you see at the top,

465
00:43:00,810 --> 00:43:02,570
the space between the water surface,

466
00:43:02,570 --> 00:43:05,330
the normal water surface salvation and the top of our gates.

467
00:43:06,110 --> 00:43:09,610
And very importantly, our gates are not designed to be over top.

468
00:43:10,950 --> 00:43:12,370
So what do I mean by that?

469
00:43:12,870 --> 00:43:16,670
So on the picture on the left, you're looking at the upstream side

470
00:43:16,670 --> 00:43:20,690
of the dam, you're looking at an individual gate of the five that we have.

471
00:43:21,190 --> 00:43:24,810
And the water, of course, is in the foreground, you see the gate in the background.

472
00:43:25,870 --> 00:43:29,830
That's representative of the 18 inches of gate that we have on all five gates

473
00:43:29,830 --> 00:43:35,030
that we must work with during the storm when the lake begins to rise.

474
00:43:35,650 --> 00:43:38,990
We cannot let water go over that for safety reasons.

475
00:43:40,730 --> 00:43:45,950
And so we must act incrementally, but consistently, to make sure we maintain safe freeboard

476
00:43:45,950 --> 00:43:47,170
and don't over top the gates.

477
00:43:47,730 --> 00:43:50,670
The gates also the structure is steel, you see on the right.

478
00:43:51,030 --> 00:43:55,370
They're not designed for the forces that would be placed upon them,

479
00:43:55,390 --> 00:43:57,270
with sheet flow coming over the top.

480
00:43:57,270 --> 00:44:01,430
and particularly not if you tried to move that gate with sheet flow coming over the top.

481
00:44:01,670 --> 00:44:03,370
They're just not designed for that.

482
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:09,880
Key point number two, our operations do mitigate the peak flow

483
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:13,620
that would otherwise go down through the river, where they're no damn.

484
00:44:14,740 --> 00:44:17,920
Even though we're a water supplier, reservoir, we're able to do this.

485
00:44:19,420 --> 00:44:25,780
We're one of the ways that we have that we can do that is that we purchase six feet of

486
00:44:25,780 --> 00:44:28,840
flowage easement when we constructed the lake.

487
00:44:29,780 --> 00:44:33,480
And so by operating our gates, we're basically

488
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:35,700
and simplified, we're letting out less water

489
00:44:35,700 --> 00:44:38,720
than it's coming in as a result the lake is going to rise

490
00:44:38,720 --> 00:44:42,300
and we've got six feet of buffer that we can use to do that.

491
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:45,820
And as I'll be also mentioned, our operating protocol

492
00:44:45,820 --> 00:44:50,520
is intended to help balance the lake level rise upstream

493
00:44:51,140 --> 00:44:53,740
and the outflows downstream.

494
00:44:55,630 --> 00:44:59,730
This is the map from here's gun flow control district.

495
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:23,880
Those one month of accumulated rainfall starting April 22nd through May 22nd. And if you'll look in the very top of the watershed, I don't know if my pointer will work, but if you'll look up in the very top of the watershed, you can see we had in some places an excess of 25 inches of rain in a month. And so we all know it's been a wet period, but it's been almost an unprecedented wet period.

496
00:45:25,930 --> 00:45:34,890
The next few slides are to describe something not just the amount of rainfall, but what was, you know, I often say every storm is different.

497
00:45:34,950 --> 00:45:38,930
What was unique about this storm is the intensity with which some of the rain came.

498
00:45:39,710 --> 00:45:42,730
So this particular slide is talking about the basin average.

499
00:45:42,850 --> 00:45:48,010
We're talking about that 450 square mile basin that I showed at the top of the same single basin.

500
00:45:49,330 --> 00:45:54,770
On a daily basis on Thursday, the second we received almost seven inches in one single day.

501
00:45:55,710 --> 00:46:07,610
And so that level that intensity of rainfall is very high magnitude, and over the course of five days, on the base and average, we received an excess of 11 inches.

502
00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:17,260
Talking more specifically about the intensity, the next three slides are going to all be at the one gauge location, which if I go back,

503
00:46:19,620 --> 00:46:23,660
that gauge location is right there.

504
00:46:23,660 --> 00:46:31,160
It's right at the county line between Walker and here's I between Montgomery and Walker counties on the lake at FN 1375

505
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:38,740
At that particular location, we had a you had one hour in which we received almost three inches of rain

506
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:42,380
That is a lot of rain just to give you perspective

507
00:46:42,380 --> 00:46:47,340
We as operators have a large set so at our different rain gauges. We know

508
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:52,920
Basically when there's very intense rainfall and those are set for one inch per hour

509
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:58,940
And so three times that is just an incredible rate of rain.

510
00:46:59,580 --> 00:47:04,900
On a 15-minute basis, as I said, our alarms are for one inch and an hour.

511
00:47:05,240 --> 00:47:12,060
We'll in two different occasions, we received more than an inch and 15 minutes at that location that I pointed out.

512
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:16,640
So we're just talking about nearly unimaginable rainfall rates.

513
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:21,060
This slide is just to give an overall depiction of the event.

514
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:25,020
Some of the things I want to point out is that we came into the event

515
00:47:25,020 --> 00:47:26,940
coming off of another event.

516
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:31,780
So we had already previously been to 12,500 CFS.

517
00:47:32,260 --> 00:47:36,340
We had already been to water surface elevation of 20.9.

518
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:40,620
And we, before we made our first, before the lake began to rise again,

519
00:47:40,900 --> 00:47:44,520
we were already flowing 7540 cubic feet per second.

520
00:47:45,860 --> 00:47:52,040
We consider the beginning of an event when it's on the descent from a previous event when the

521
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:54,600
lake first starts to take back up, starts to ascend.

522
00:47:55,380 --> 00:48:02,400
And so that happened about 30 minutes, just after midnight, and about 330, we made our first

523
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:05,720
gate change, and we went from 75, 40,000 to 8,000.

524
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:14,000
You can see our peak, as has been mentioned, was up nearly 72,000 CFS, something to something

525
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:21,580
to note is how steep that rises. That took place within 10 hours, roughly. So in a 10-hour

526
00:48:21,580 --> 00:48:28,200
period, we went from as far as release rates from 8,000 to 72,000. That is fast, very fast.

527
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:35,620
We reached a maximum water surface elevation of 205.14, and then you can see we incrementally

528
00:48:35,620 --> 00:48:41,780
reduced on the descending limb until we finally got back to the pool level.

529
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:49,180
Something to note is that I've only highlighted a few points of reduction, but there are

530
00:48:49,180 --> 00:48:54,760
many points, there are many more gate operations that took place within that period, but

531
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:58,340
it would clutter up the sheets so I could also show a few.

532
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:05,620
This has also, you know, a point that's been mentioned, but there's a couple of key things.

533
00:49:05,620 --> 00:49:13,080
One thing for it slips my mind, which is easy to do, because the rate of the peak rate of inflow

534
00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:15,540
in this event exceeded that of Harvey.

535
00:49:17,060 --> 00:49:17,920
So think of that.

536
00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:21,560
The peak rate of inflow in this event exceeded that of Hurricane Harvey.

537
00:49:22,700 --> 00:49:26,800
And the peak outflow from this event was less than Harvey.

538
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:32,960
So I just hope everyone will take a minute to think about that in addition to the fact

539
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:35,060
that we reduced the inflow.

540
00:49:35,580 --> 00:49:41,060
What we let out, our outflow was approximately 58%.

541
00:49:41,060 --> 00:49:43,820
I mean, 50% of the peak inflow.

542
00:49:43,980 --> 00:49:46,220
So our peak outflow is 50% of the peak inflow.

543
00:49:46,820 --> 00:49:47,600
That's significant.

544
00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:52,220
In this particular event, you can see that some of the contributions

545
00:49:52,220 --> 00:49:54,060
from some of the other watersheds.

546
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:58,980
These are peak flows measured at certain locations

547
00:49:58,980 --> 00:50:01,620
and that over here is the date and the time

548
00:50:01,620 --> 00:50:02,880
which those peaks occurred.

549
00:50:03,500 --> 00:50:07,440
And in this particular event, there was a larger percentage coming

550
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:10,540
down the West Fort from the Lake Honoural Watershed

551
00:50:10,540 --> 00:50:12,200
than in many other events.

552
00:50:12,340 --> 00:50:14,740
Just goes back to the nature of all storms

553
00:50:14,740 --> 00:50:15,540
and different.

554
00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:19,500
Point number three, we do not pre-release.

555
00:50:20,900 --> 00:50:25,040
Something that have to make clear, I hope everybody understands

556
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:27,260
that, again, going back to permit restrictions.

557
00:50:27,860 --> 00:50:32,000
Our permit says that if you're below elevation 201,

558
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:38,280
You're limited, a maximum diversion rate of 700CFS.

559
00:50:39,660 --> 00:50:43,440
At that rate, it takes a week to lower the lakes, six inches.

560
00:50:45,900 --> 00:50:55,780
And a week prior to this event, we would be in the forecast was for anywhere from one to two inches of rainfall for our area.

561
00:50:55,780 --> 00:50:59,620
There's a star on the map on the right that's right over top of Montgomery County.

562
00:50:59,620 --> 00:51:04,600
And you can see it was a little bit more up into the northern watershed, up into Walker County.

563
00:51:05,300 --> 00:51:07,720
But nothing like we experienced.

564
00:51:08,900 --> 00:51:14,420
Another point is that small, so it takes a long time to make any effect.

565
00:51:15,100 --> 00:51:23,080
And any small, excuse me, any small additional storage is really not helpful in a large large event.

566
00:51:24,940 --> 00:51:33,140
We all know that weather predictions are not always, it's hard to predict out very far.

567
00:51:33,740 --> 00:51:47,780
And even during this event, just prior to the event, we were not no one, including our colleagues at the National Weather Service, had any England that we were going to receive the amount of rainfall and the intensity of the rainfall that we received.

568
00:51:50,790 --> 00:51:55,130
Well, it's a continuation of that point that we don't pre-release.

569
00:51:56,070 --> 00:52:01,070
As I've already said, if water is pre-released at 201 below, those type of versions must

570
00:52:01,070 --> 00:52:04,270
be accounted against water supply, permitted water supply.

571
00:52:05,430 --> 00:52:10,170
Our water, I say, S.J. Ray's water, is already committed to its customers, so you've used

572
00:52:10,170 --> 00:52:15,950
it on occasion may have available water, and if they choose to use it, they're limited

573
00:52:15,950 --> 00:52:21,370
to no more than 700 human people second. And they must ask for that, too, that's JRA in writing.

574
00:52:24,170 --> 00:52:26,630
That's all I have, and I'll take any questions.

575
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:34,740
Did you see a Houston call for water? Was it to why?

576
00:52:35,640 --> 00:52:36,900
In this evening? Yeah.

577
00:52:37,460 --> 00:52:41,020
I do not receive those calls, so I will defer to Aubrey.

578
00:52:42,540 --> 00:52:46,660
The city used during this event did not call for any water.

579
00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:55,400
Well, it was a couple weeks later when we had a rain or about a week later when we had a rain event.

580
00:52:55,400 --> 00:53:00,180
They call for the water, but it never really got below the 201.

581
00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:05,940
They were wanting us to release some water once we got back to 201.

582
00:53:06,540 --> 00:53:12,960
But then it started raining again and it started going above 201.

583
00:53:13,720 --> 00:53:16,960
So they never really, we didn't use any of their water.

584
00:53:17,260 --> 00:53:19,540
Or they didn't pass any of their water through the lake.

585
00:53:19,540 --> 00:53:25,520
But I guess my question is why did they call for the water?

586
00:53:25,660 --> 00:53:31,920
Was it to reduce the water in the lake or was it to use it?

587
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:34,060
I think it was both.

588
00:53:35,260 --> 00:53:41,080
They're intent from what they've told me is that they would have used that water.

589
00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:48,500
They go to Lake Houston and then they have several water supply.

590
00:53:50,020 --> 00:53:54,720
and customers and so forth, and it different supplies other than like Houston that they

591
00:53:54,720 --> 00:53:57,500
can decide where they're going to take that water from.

592
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:01,540
And so that's what they described to me.

593
00:54:02,300 --> 00:54:03,440
Thank you.

594
00:54:05,500 --> 00:54:08,740
Thank you.

595
00:54:08,740 --> 00:54:08,800
Thank you.

596
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:08,820
Thank you.

597
00:54:08,820 --> 00:54:13,900
I do want to commend you publicly for the job that the whole team did.

598
00:54:14,740 --> 00:54:20,500
Everyone here, the Paul takers, everybody, it's really a tough

599
00:54:20,500 --> 00:54:27,740
place to be. And we have that kind of a day lose. I appreciate your efforts. I appreciate

600
00:54:27,740 --> 00:54:32,320
your hard work and your conscientious. Thank you. Thank you and as you said, I can't stay

601
00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:37,300
strongly enough. It's absolutely a team effort. I mean, you can't imagine how many people

602
00:54:37,300 --> 00:54:44,740
contributed long hours. Very much appreciated. Thank you. And I'll just make a comment too

603
00:54:44,740 --> 00:54:47,840
the same thing I go in appreciation to have been.

604
00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:52,340
I think as Aubrey said, and as Kevin said, I think that the ability for us to learn

605
00:54:52,340 --> 00:55:00,700
from each event is critical as we go forward, and I think jointly there's a lot of agreement

606
00:55:01,500 --> 00:55:08,440
that we really need to be pushing on the permanent permanent level so that we can do a better

607
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:13,260
job on active store management, especially when we know we have an active hurricane season coming

608
00:55:13,260 --> 00:55:19,800
forward. And one thing in particular that we did learn was, is that, you know, we kind of

609
00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:24,580
got a benchmark and we learned the conveyance of the river downstream after the

610
00:55:24,580 --> 00:55:29,820
dredging took place. And actually the peak at the west board was a little different.

611
00:55:30,500 --> 00:55:37,260
They both know and the hydrographs predicted, and what's happened in the past. But I think

612
00:55:37,260 --> 00:55:47,460
I'm trying to control outflows and keeping the maximum release is not impacting the projected

613
00:55:47,460 --> 00:55:53,640
crest downstream 24 to 36 hours, and I think that's the key takeaway for us to look

614
00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:57,320
at to get better for the next minute as we move forward.

615
00:55:58,180 --> 00:55:59,200
Thank you.

616
00:56:04,240 --> 00:56:06,940
That's all of our division updates at this time.

617
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:26,460
Okay. The next thing on the agenda is consent agenda. You have consent agenda items item 585C and your board packet. I'll need a motion a second for approval.

618
00:56:28,380 --> 00:56:30,140
I'd like to ask it.

619
00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:42,060
I'm sorry, did you repeat that?

620
00:56:42,060 --> 00:56:45,040
Could we move C to the regular agenda?

621
00:56:46,120 --> 00:56:46,220
Item

622
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:53,540
C.

623
00:56:54,040 --> 00:56:57,240
Any comments about that?

624
00:56:58,980 --> 00:57:01,860
Moving C to the regular agenda.

625
00:57:01,860 --> 00:57:05,910
Okay, so we'll change that then to say we have

626
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:12,780
consent of General Adams A through B, A and B, your board packet,

627
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:14,870
be the motion in a second for approval.

628
00:57:16,580 --> 00:57:17,260
Make a motion.

629
00:57:18,260 --> 00:57:18,340
Second.

630
00:57:18,340 --> 00:57:20,520
Motion second for the comments or questions.

631
00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:23,520
All in favor.

632
00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:25,360
All opposed.

633
00:57:26,260 --> 00:57:27,320
There are no motion passes.

634
00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:31,340
And that takes us to regular agenda.

635
00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:39,860
On the regular agenda, as we just pulled item 5C, we'll take that up first, and that's

636
00:57:39,860 --> 00:57:45,220
professional service agreement, work order number one, process water discharge, optimization

637
00:57:45,220 --> 00:57:50,360
study, and I believe Connie, you and your group have that.

638
00:57:50,580 --> 00:57:59,860
Yes, ma'am, so we're yes sir, and yes ma'am for pulling it off, so this is a project that's

639
00:57:59,860 --> 00:58:08,060
at the GRP. Essentially, there's an effluent that comes out of portion of the treatment facility

640
00:58:08,060 --> 00:58:14,300
that discharges to the city of Conroe. And so the city of Conroe charges us right. It's

641
00:58:14,300 --> 00:58:19,360
actually double if you were inside the city because we were technically the GRP is not within

642
00:58:19,360 --> 00:58:24,340
the city limits of Conroe. So we pay twice the sewer rate for that effluent. So what this study

643
00:58:24,340 --> 00:58:29,480
is doing is trying to optimize that effluent discharge to where we're reducing it and maybe

644
00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:35,840
able to use it elsewhere in the plant itself so either kind of reusing it back up into the water

645
00:58:35,840 --> 00:58:40,340
stream or potentially putting a treatment facility off to the side to treat it and then

646
00:58:40,340 --> 00:58:44,960
discharge it without discharging the conders. So this study is essentially trying to help us

647
00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:54,600
to long-term reduce that typical O&M costs of having to pay into conders. So my point in questioning

648
00:58:54,600 --> 00:59:01,880
is to be honest with you is that we do a lot of studies for a lot of different things.

649
00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:10,380
And the board is presented with the proofs of study, but then we don't ever see the result of the study.

650
00:59:11,200 --> 00:59:13,200
And what the effect was.

651
00:59:13,620 --> 00:59:16,640
And so that's sort of where I'm going with the question.

652
00:59:17,760 --> 00:59:19,620
I have no job that you need to study.

653
00:59:19,700 --> 00:59:20,500
That's fine.

654
00:59:20,500 --> 00:59:23,940
And I have no problems approving it.

655
00:59:24,100 --> 00:59:30,280
I just simply would like some follow-up in how the study actually was effective.

656
00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:32,600
That was it.

657
00:59:32,800 --> 00:59:33,400
I'm just going to discuss out of this.

658
00:59:33,620 --> 00:59:35,400
Thank you.

659
00:59:35,420 --> 00:59:36,780
That's probably a good comment, thank you.

660
00:59:37,460 --> 00:59:38,020
Thank you.

661
00:59:38,020 --> 00:59:38,300
Thank you.

662
00:59:38,340 --> 00:59:38,800
That's appropriate.

663
00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:43,120
We need to make a motion to approve this now.

664
00:59:45,070 --> 00:59:45,290
Okay.

665
00:59:45,390 --> 00:59:51,700
You've heard a discussion on the regular gender item that they need.

666
00:59:51,700 --> 00:59:52,340
Okay.

667
00:59:52,880 --> 00:59:53,940
Let's still five seats.

668
00:59:54,220 --> 00:59:54,940
Still five seats.

669
00:59:55,720 --> 00:59:58,400
Change from the contingent items to the record agenda.

670
00:59:59,540 --> 00:59:59,960
Need a motion.

671
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:05,560
Second, for approval. Second, for the comments or questions.

672
01:00:08,010 --> 01:00:12,490
Not all in favour? All opposed? All in

673
01:00:12,490 --> 01:00:22,170
motion carries. Okay, we'll text, it takes six A, which is the only one on the regular agenda. Work

674
01:00:22,170 --> 01:00:28,110
Order number two, San Jacena River, and Tributary Settlement, Removal, and San

675
01:00:28,110 --> 01:00:29,650
Trapped Development Project.

676
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:33,100
Rihanna has this one.

677
01:00:34,380 --> 01:00:35,380
Good morning, Board members.

678
01:00:35,500 --> 01:00:37,220
I'm Esturati, Senior Management Team.

679
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:39,120
As our Reset of my name is Brianna.

680
01:00:39,940 --> 01:00:43,140
And today I'm going to give a presentation on our Settlement

681
01:00:43,140 --> 01:00:44,660
Removal and San Trapped Project.

682
01:00:48,020 --> 01:00:53,520
Before I talk about the work order and what that covers, I wanted to briefly touch about the background.

683
01:00:55,000 --> 01:01:08,340
I've been involved since the first seed was planted with this idea, so I'm going to try to be very brief and not go into a bunch of history, but in 2018 it's really when we started coordinating with the production operations.

684
01:01:08,960 --> 01:01:14,520
We specifically wanted to coordinate with APOs that are part of the Texas aggregates and concrete association.

685
01:01:15,280 --> 01:01:43,600
And so, the one APO that really stuck was how it materials, Mark, Ed and Ronnie, if y'all remember we all went and toured that facility after Hurricane Harvey and from those conversations, we really gathered up the idea of creating some legislation that would allow us in less controlled district to remove material, to improve the floodway conveyance and the Westfork and truebetaries with the River Basin.

686
01:01:44,560 --> 01:01:48,100
And so, May, 2019, we had that legislation passed.

687
01:01:48,720 --> 01:01:50,180
It is House Bill 1824.

688
01:01:50,880 --> 01:01:52,660
This essentially allows an exemption.

689
01:01:53,180 --> 01:01:54,260
So, as section was created,

690
01:01:54,460 --> 01:01:56,220
and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Code

691
01:01:56,220 --> 01:01:58,420
that allows us and Fleck Control

692
01:01:58,420 --> 01:01:59,700
to remove that material.

693
01:02:00,360 --> 01:02:02,020
And we can put it on private property.

694
01:02:03,100 --> 01:02:06,260
For us, the plan is to have health materials.

695
01:02:07,400 --> 01:02:08,400
Take that material.

696
01:02:08,820 --> 01:02:09,700
You live on material

697
01:02:09,700 --> 01:02:12,240
as they will be the operator in the maintainer

698
01:02:12,240 --> 01:02:14,180
of these sand traps once they get constructed.

699
01:02:15,300 --> 01:02:18,660
And so once that legislation was passed in 2020,

700
01:02:19,020 --> 01:02:21,240
we had for reason nickels come on board

701
01:02:21,240 --> 01:02:24,660
and do our conceptual design study for the sand traps.

702
01:02:25,020 --> 01:02:28,200
And this conceptual design highlighted a number of areas

703
01:02:28,200 --> 01:02:30,220
where sand traps may be good.

704
01:02:30,680 --> 01:02:32,220
Ultimately, out of this report,

705
01:02:32,880 --> 01:02:35,900
they recommended two in-channel traps to go into design.

706
01:02:36,680 --> 01:02:39,060
And so, a couple years later, 2022,

707
01:02:39,660 --> 01:02:41,520
the conceptual design report was completed.

708
01:02:41,520 --> 01:02:48,500
And now, here we are, in 2024, after years of coordination and with APOs with our funding

709
01:02:48,500 --> 01:02:52,700
partners, we are now hopeful next month we can start preliminary design.

710
01:02:55,810 --> 01:03:00,550
For the preliminary engineering, for the stand traps, it will cover two end channel traps.

711
01:03:00,810 --> 01:03:04,990
And so, on the image to the right, you will see the two green-hashed areas.

712
01:03:05,590 --> 01:03:10,210
These are the two channel traps that are recommended from the conceptual design study.

713
01:03:10,210 --> 01:03:16,970
And so these are the two that we will evaluate with frozen nickels in this work order two for a preliminary design.

714
01:03:17,370 --> 01:03:21,570
And the black hatch area, that is a potential out of channel trap.

715
01:03:22,470 --> 01:03:26,210
This came on board after talking to Hall of Materials.

716
01:03:26,750 --> 01:03:28,170
It is a retired pit.

717
01:03:28,690 --> 01:03:33,410
They were very eager and open to us potentially using this as an out of channel trap.

718
01:03:33,710 --> 01:03:38,230
And so we're having freezing nickels also evaluate that if it would work.

719
01:03:39,270 --> 01:03:55,050
When we did our conceptual design, we went through a public comment period, and so we received a lot of concern, comments about the environmental, how it might affect the streams, the stability, what it might do, upstream, downstream, if they stand trucks were constructed.

720
01:03:55,610 --> 01:03:58,510
Those are all things that are going to be looked at during its preliminary engineering.

721
01:03:58,510 --> 01:04:06,810
Freeza is going to have a very heavy lift on the environmental evaluation piece of this and ultimately what we'll get at this P.E.R. is

722
01:04:07,510 --> 01:04:14,550
Recommendation to move forward with either an out-of-channel trap potentially two of the internal traps to move forward for a final design

723
01:04:16,790 --> 01:04:24,810
With that we'll also get an opinion of probable construction costs so we'll know have a good idea of what it's going to cost to construct these

724
01:04:24,810 --> 01:04:25,270
Oh,

725
01:04:29,800 --> 01:04:34,320
and then you may know, I mean, we know there was a breach in the hall at nine on this last event.

726
01:04:35,640 --> 01:04:36,900
You want to talk about that?

727
01:04:37,060 --> 01:04:37,480
We can talk about that.

728
01:04:37,500 --> 01:04:40,380
I just didn't know where this was at and relationship to that breach.

729
01:04:40,860 --> 01:04:44,100
So, this is actually right upstream of that.

730
01:04:44,940 --> 01:04:48,180
And it is adjacent to Hall of Materials facility.

731
01:04:48,920 --> 01:04:51,900
They no longer own that parcel, where those breaches happened.

732
01:04:53,820 --> 01:04:58,560
But 100% blockage is right downstream of where these facilities could be.

733
01:04:58,560 --> 01:05:05,280
So it, while it's not good now, it may be a benefit to have the sand drops there, because

734
01:05:05,280 --> 01:05:06,980
they can capture that for a ghost downstream.

735
01:05:08,040 --> 01:05:08,320
Thank you.

736
01:05:11,000 --> 01:05:14,700
Eric, you perfectly explain the difference between the internal and the internal damage.

737
01:05:16,560 --> 01:05:23,280
So for the internal traps at green hatched areas, so essentially once the water rises and

738
01:05:23,280 --> 01:05:29,820
flow is out, the sediment will settle in the green areas, and the idea is that how material

739
01:05:29,820 --> 01:05:35,620
will go and pull out the sand. The out-of-channel trap, that was a little bit more complicated.

740
01:05:36,120 --> 01:05:38,260
That's something we're going to have to look at in the preliminary engineering.

741
01:05:39,100 --> 01:05:43,120
We've talked about all sorts of things. I don't know if any of them were going to stick,

742
01:05:43,400 --> 01:05:45,560
but we're going to identify that during preliminary engineering.

743
01:05:46,540 --> 01:05:51,420
But essentially, you'd almost have kind of a breach on one end,

744
01:05:51,580 --> 01:05:56,380
so once that water gets high, it goes in, the sand settles out, and the water floats out the other end.

745
01:05:57,100 --> 01:06:01,380
So, in that case, the water, the sand was settled in that accident.

746
01:06:01,960 --> 01:06:02,160
Yes.

747
01:06:04,020 --> 01:06:09,480
And then, one of the benefits to having the out of channel trap is it can store more

748
01:06:09,480 --> 01:06:15,980
sediment without having to be excavated as much as the internal traps might have to be.

749
01:06:17,300 --> 01:06:24,960
Brianna, I've had some public inquiries about this project, particularly regarding the long-term

750
01:06:24,960 --> 01:06:33,360
operations and maintenance. Could you talk about who's responsibility that will be once the project is completed and in what type of

751
01:06:33,360 --> 01:06:36,920
O&M is required for a project like this?

752
01:06:37,360 --> 01:06:42,700
So one of the key things we're looking at this is since it is going to be aggregate production operation,

753
01:06:43,200 --> 01:06:49,380
operating and maintaining these. We want me to identify an APO that was open to the public private partnership,

754
01:06:49,380 --> 01:06:52,460
opportunity that this presents for them.

755
01:06:52,800 --> 01:06:57,520
Halematerials has stated that they're going to be there for the next probably eight years.

756
01:06:58,300 --> 01:07:00,160
So they're very open to this partnership.

757
01:07:01,660 --> 01:07:07,980
Once that eight years is over, we've talked about getting easements or at least on that property.

758
01:07:09,060 --> 01:07:11,260
And then we've had conversations with city of Houston.

759
01:07:11,260 --> 01:07:16,680
They might be open to moving into that position to operate and maintain the same track.

760
01:07:16,680 --> 01:07:21,620
because ultimately it does benefit them because that's less sediment going down to Lake Houston.

761
01:07:22,560 --> 01:07:28,000
That will be discussed in the PER as well. The long-term operations and maintenance.

762
01:07:29,220 --> 01:07:29,960
Most likely in fact.

763
01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:34,180
The final design, but it's something we will talk about in P.E.R.

764
01:07:35,040 --> 01:07:43,460
I mean, is it projected that a lot of that sand, especially out of China, will occur during

765
01:07:43,460 --> 01:07:47,520
more of a major event as opposed to just normal flow?

766
01:07:47,940 --> 01:07:54,000
Yes, a lot of the suspended load will occur during heavier rain of rain events.

767
01:07:54,000 --> 01:08:02,180
So, in the operating procedures or in the processes of it, I would assume that it's going

768
01:08:02,180 --> 01:08:06,820
to be critical that there's time in this and removing that after a bit before the next

769
01:08:06,820 --> 01:08:13,620
event takes place right or that would be contemplated in this somewhere in the...

770
01:08:13,620 --> 01:08:15,380
Yes, that'll be talked about.

771
01:08:15,780 --> 01:08:21,220
Halematerial will be closely engaged as we move through PR and final design just so we're all

772
01:08:21,220 --> 01:08:24,780
on the same page because the worst thing that could happen is there's not that

773
01:08:24,780 --> 01:08:28,420
communication and then construction happens and we're not on the same page.

774
01:08:28,860 --> 01:08:32,480
So they're going to be involved at the front end so we know exactly what direction

775
01:08:32,480 --> 01:08:35,880
we're heading and we're on the same page as far as operation mates and scows of

776
01:08:35,880 --> 01:08:36,660
the same process.

777
01:08:36,960 --> 01:08:37,360
Thank you.

778
01:08:37,760 --> 01:08:43,840
Exciting to see this in the forward and then to see if it helps affective ideas and

779
01:08:43,840 --> 01:08:47,920
if there's opportunity to use another place to, you know, because there's a lot of,

780
01:08:47,920 --> 01:08:50,160
to get ready to spend another $800,000 in my case

781
01:08:50,160 --> 01:08:52,560
with an undredging, which is starting momentarily.

782
01:08:54,700 --> 01:08:56,800
And you know, you just wonder if we can minimize

783
01:08:56,800 --> 01:08:58,680
something that was going down there,

784
01:08:58,740 --> 01:08:59,720
you know, can they take that money?

785
01:09:00,020 --> 01:09:03,380
It's almost like preventive, you know, upstream and someplace.

786
01:09:03,600 --> 01:09:05,880
And I know there's a lot of creeks and tributaries

787
01:09:05,880 --> 01:09:07,960
that put a lot of sand in the sediment in that lake.

788
01:09:09,820 --> 01:09:10,900
But thank you.

789
01:09:11,040 --> 01:09:11,560
Yes, sir.

790
01:09:11,660 --> 01:09:14,940
Ran of what's the timeline for completion of the study?

791
01:09:14,940 --> 01:09:22,000
So, if this were quoted as a proof today, we're waiting for the ILA to be completely executed

792
01:09:22,000 --> 01:09:28,900
with Black and Full and City Houston. So, we would start PR in June, and then that would

793
01:09:28,900 --> 01:09:38,260
be about six months ago to final design, but probably a year. So, we're looking at this year

794
01:09:38,260 --> 01:09:44,920
at 2026. So, the cost of this project will be split three ways between her standard

795
01:09:44,920 --> 01:09:46,820
of the flood control district, City of Houston,

796
01:09:47,740 --> 01:09:49,040
in the sense in a river authority.

797
01:09:49,560 --> 01:09:50,000
Yes, sir.

798
01:09:50,340 --> 01:09:52,340
When the project actually starts,

799
01:09:53,220 --> 01:09:55,120
with the cost for the project,

800
01:09:55,220 --> 01:09:56,600
also be split three ways.

801
01:09:57,300 --> 01:09:58,980
Yes, everything's going to get split.

802
01:09:59,740 --> 01:10:03,020
City of Houston is actually taken to their council

803
01:10:03,780 --> 01:10:06,480
under approval to fund us through construction.

804
01:10:07,460 --> 01:10:09,560
So they're going to be involved financially

805
01:10:09,560 --> 01:10:10,820
through the whole project.

806
01:10:11,260 --> 01:10:13,000
And then, so we'll share some of the flood control district.

807
01:10:14,960 --> 01:10:15,840
Thank you.

808
01:10:18,660 --> 01:10:24,320
With that, we asked the general manager to negotiate an execute will for two, with

809
01:10:24,320 --> 01:10:26,480
three, before I said I'm going to move in Sand Truck Project.

810
01:10:30,260 --> 01:10:30,280
Okay.

811
01:10:30,460 --> 01:10:36,460
You've heard a review and presentation on what to agenda item six A, on the emotion and the

812
01:10:36,460 --> 01:10:37,780
second for approval.

813
01:10:38,640 --> 01:10:39,100
Make a motion.

814
01:10:40,100 --> 01:10:40,220
Second.

815
01:10:40,220 --> 01:10:40,380
Motion.

816
01:10:40,880 --> 01:10:42,140
Any further questions or discussion?

817
01:10:45,400 --> 01:10:46,080
Not all in favour?

818
01:10:47,880 --> 01:10:48,440
All opposed?

819
01:10:49,640 --> 01:10:50,580
All in non-motion carries.

820
01:10:50,880 --> 01:10:51,320
Thank you, Graham.

821
01:10:51,320 --> 01:10:52,220
On

822
01:10:58,870 --> 01:11:08,050
9th of 7, we have two presentations, first presentation regarding the proposed GRP Fiscal

823
01:11:08,050 --> 01:11:10,110
Year 2025 budget.

824
01:11:10,770 --> 01:11:14,230
I believe Pam and her staff will be presenting that.

825
01:11:18,440 --> 01:11:19,700
Thank you, Aubrey.

826
01:11:20,420 --> 01:11:27,120
Chris and I will be presenting that the GRP budget has been prepared by the GRP staff on

827
01:11:27,120 --> 01:11:34,380
crisis guidance. So we have presented this to the Finance Committee on the 17th of May.

828
01:11:37,510 --> 01:11:44,210
So our calendar has been, you know, we lay out our calendar, technical services starts

829
01:11:44,210 --> 01:11:50,570
on the tenure project plans back in November. And we step through staffing plans in January.

830
01:11:51,430 --> 01:11:57,110
And now we're to the point of, we presented this on Monday to the GRP review committee. And

831
01:11:57,110 --> 01:12:02,690
We will bring it back to the review committee in June for their vote on the budget and rate,

832
01:12:02,910 --> 01:12:06,710
and we will bring it back to this board next month for the rate.

833
01:12:07,130 --> 01:12:12,570
The budget will come to this board and August with the other remaining divisions and departments.

834
01:12:16,160 --> 01:12:17,260
So keep budget drivers.

835
01:12:18,860 --> 01:12:22,980
So when we were doing the budget this year, we looked at four main drivers for the budget for

836
01:12:22,980 --> 01:12:23,380
the rate.

837
01:12:23,620 --> 01:12:26,280
First you're going to see is the usage has increased.

838
01:12:26,280 --> 01:12:31,640
This is not just surface water, this is not just ground water, this is total demand has increased

839
01:12:31,640 --> 01:12:38,040
By four million gallons a day or one basically one and a half billion gallons a year

840
01:12:38,040 --> 01:12:40,020
Second thing we looked at was chemicals

841
01:12:40,640 --> 01:12:46,480
So across the board we've seen a cost reduction on all chemicals and usage on the surface water side

842
01:12:47,780 --> 01:12:51,340
When it comes to the gag or the granulated activated carbon

843
01:12:51,980 --> 01:12:56,360
The operation staff maintenance staff was able to do some operational changes.

844
01:12:56,480 --> 01:12:58,240
Identify some ways to do things better.

845
01:12:58,820 --> 01:13:01,860
And that calls savings in FY24 is about $500,000.

846
01:13:02,380 --> 01:13:05,380
For FY25 would have been 750,000.

847
01:13:06,260 --> 01:13:09,980
Additionally, when we looked at staffing, we found some ways to combine some positions

848
01:13:09,980 --> 01:13:11,620
and reduce them at teams.

849
01:13:16,660 --> 01:13:19,180
One other thing just add, we were talking about demands.

850
01:13:20,200 --> 01:13:23,960
When we're looking at 22 FY22 and FY23,

851
01:13:23,960 --> 01:13:28,560
You'll see those were drought years, so the demands are a lot higher, green lines representing

852
01:13:28,560 --> 01:13:35,300
total demand, and FY25, we did take in consideration the two drought years, but we also

853
01:13:35,300 --> 01:13:38,120
had to take in consideration growth in Montgomery County.

854
01:13:39,400 --> 01:13:46,420
And so far right side where it says FY2025 proposed, that is what we're looking for, which

855
01:13:46,420 --> 01:13:50,200
does include about that 1.5 billion gallon year increase.

856
01:13:50,200 --> 01:13:50,540
I

857
01:13:54,320 --> 01:13:56,500
have a question in regards to the staff reduction.

858
01:13:56,980 --> 01:13:59,260
So these staff positions you don't intend to fill?

859
01:13:59,900 --> 01:13:59,940
Correct.

860
01:14:00,180 --> 01:14:00,340
Yes, man.

861
01:14:00,360 --> 01:14:01,720
They were currently vacant positions.

862
01:14:02,580 --> 01:14:05,720
And so what we did going into next year is we're just not going to fill those positions

863
01:14:05,720 --> 01:14:06,920
and eliminate them.

864
01:14:10,990 --> 01:14:14,910
You know, in today's environment, it's economic environment.

865
01:14:15,690 --> 01:14:17,850
It's unusual to hear towards cost reduction.

866
01:14:19,850 --> 01:14:22,730
What cost, where did the cost reduction come in with chemicals?

867
01:14:24,050 --> 01:14:27,510
So with the chemicals every day, the staff are always looking at ways to do things.

868
01:14:27,510 --> 01:14:29,910
things better quicker or faster if you will.

869
01:14:30,650 --> 01:14:32,390
That in combination with a scattered group,

870
01:14:32,550 --> 01:14:34,750
we were able to identify some ways of instrumentation

871
01:14:34,750 --> 01:14:37,250
to kind of fine tune the numbers if you will.

872
01:14:37,990 --> 01:14:40,670
That, as well as the inflation is going down quite a bit

873
01:14:40,670 --> 01:14:43,210
for what we originally proposed in this year's budget.

874
01:14:47,500 --> 01:14:50,500
So this is the FY25 proposed budget

875
01:14:50,500 --> 01:14:51,920
for the GRP division.

876
01:14:53,180 --> 01:14:56,000
You will see that the revenues have increased,

877
01:14:56,580 --> 01:14:59,020
but as Chris spoke, there's a higher demand.

878
01:14:59,020 --> 01:14:59,960
That's enough.

879
01:15:00,700 --> 01:15:10,980
Calculation. Our expenses, our ONM expenses, as you see, from our budgeted of FY24, are going down. And it is

880
01:15:10,980 --> 01:15:17,920
efficiencies that the team has found. You will see on the debt service. If you look at 23's

881
01:15:17,920 --> 01:15:29,980
actual, that 34.6 million is our basic our annual debt service. It's higher in 24 due to the

882
01:15:29,980 --> 01:15:38,540
And so that the defense gave us a $600,000 year reduction in debt service.

883
01:15:39,180 --> 01:15:43,440
So that is the $34 million proposed for this coming year.

884
01:15:44,020 --> 01:15:49,100
And then as always we try to have zero net effect to the fund balance.

885
01:15:50,100 --> 01:15:55,640
The next slide will give us a little more detail on the ONM so you can see line by category

886
01:15:55,640 --> 01:15:58,520
where we've gone up or down,

887
01:16:02,430 --> 01:16:05,810
so there's, of course, our major category is always supply,

888
01:16:07,370 --> 01:16:10,450
supply material and utilities. It's a function of the plant.

889
01:16:14,460 --> 01:16:21,020
Here's the breakdown. That service, in prior years, has been over 60% and you can see it's coming down.

890
01:16:21,340 --> 01:16:24,640
Thanks to the defense and we continue to pay down our debt.

891
01:16:25,880 --> 01:16:32,240
So, hopefully someday we will have a nice circle with no depth and

892
01:16:35,220 --> 01:16:36,560
always, always.

893
01:16:37,600 --> 01:16:42,940
As Chris spoke about the reduction and you can see over the years, we opened the plant in

894
01:16:42,940 --> 01:16:48,760
September of 2015, which was fiscal year 2016, and you can see where they have gradually

895
01:16:48,760 --> 01:16:54,040
been evaluating staffing to get it to the optimal level.

896
01:16:54,040 --> 01:16:59,000
and this year at the toll of 39 FTEs for the GRP.

897
01:17:03,140 --> 01:17:05,620
Again, another breakdown, just the same picture,

898
01:17:06,420 --> 01:17:11,500
reminder that we always shoot for no change to the general fund,

899
01:17:12,320 --> 01:17:14,280
no net effect of year over year.

900
01:17:16,620 --> 01:17:21,660
On this slide, you see that we fully funded what we have as current

901
01:17:21,660 --> 01:17:27,460
operating in rate stabilization fund, which is currently three months of O&M,

902
01:17:27,460 --> 01:17:36,500
budgeted oinium, we are pending the rate model and presentation by the outside consultants

903
01:17:36,500 --> 01:17:43,080
of the GRP to fill in this last column because they have recommendations on what the

904
01:17:43,080 --> 01:17:51,300
reserve should be and we are not currently at those reserves. But we will be bringing this back

905
01:17:51,300 --> 01:17:56,460
with the completed column once we have that presentation and if the rate study is accepted.

906
01:17:57,100 --> 01:18:03,140
So, same goes for the emergency and the on-art, but we are fully funded at the balances we

907
01:18:03,140 --> 01:18:08,780
have set currently at the GRP, which is a great thing because a couple of years ago we

908
01:18:08,780 --> 01:18:09,740
weren't.

909
01:18:11,880 --> 01:18:14,180
I wanted to remind everyone of our past dues.

910
01:18:14,240 --> 01:18:18,160
They started back in September of 2016.

911
01:18:19,160 --> 01:18:24,960
The short pays are no-pays, as you see, include penalties and fees, but we're at 17 million

912
01:18:24,960 --> 01:18:29,680
on past due on just pumpage and surface water sales alone.

913
01:18:33,830 --> 01:18:41,050
So our proposed rate, we are going from, we are proposing going around water, 11% reduction

914
01:18:41,900 --> 01:18:44,550
from 299 to 267.

915
01:18:45,150 --> 01:18:48,810
Three cents of this reduction is due to the debt defeasants.

916
01:18:49,190 --> 01:18:52,210
The remaining is due to the efficiencies gained in the plant.

917
01:18:53,330 --> 01:19:02,610
surface water. We are proposing going from 341 to 326. You will see that, again, based

918
01:19:02,610 --> 01:19:10,170
on the rate of study that's going to be presented, there's a change in the differential.

919
01:19:10,690 --> 01:19:19,330
Going from 42 cents to 59 cents between groundwater and surface water. The consultant will

920
01:19:19,330 --> 01:19:25,810
presenting that next month, and you will get to see the results of their study.

921
01:19:28,970 --> 01:19:37,550
Our comparison to our surrounding entities, we still fall in a very good range compared

922
01:19:37,550 --> 01:19:41,070
to our proposed, of course, going down helps.

923
01:19:42,030 --> 01:19:47,910
But with our surrounding entities comparison, we're still on the low side.

924
01:19:48,630 --> 01:19:53,030
Again, 2.67, 3.26 are proposed rates.

925
01:19:55,220 --> 01:19:56,280
Reminder of our budget.

926
01:19:57,720 --> 01:19:59,440
We go for the break even.

927
01:20:01,260 --> 01:20:05,020
No, as you well know, there's no profit in non-profit.

928
01:20:06,300 --> 01:20:08,980
So, no change to the general fund as our recommendation.

929
01:20:11,240 --> 01:20:12,440
In payment, of course.

930
01:20:12,760 --> 01:20:14,820
It's a note there that you can go back a slide.

931
01:20:14,840 --> 01:20:15,260
Yes, sir.

932
01:20:15,260 --> 01:20:19,880
The revenue totals of 60 million, 427, assumes

933
01:20:21,140 --> 01:20:24,700
collection of the rate at the 100% level.

934
01:20:24,720 --> 01:20:25,320
Yes, sir.

935
01:20:25,320 --> 01:20:27,400
Of course, now I carry with.

936
01:20:27,400 --> 01:20:27,680
Correct.

937
01:20:27,840 --> 01:20:28,340
That's a good question.

938
01:20:28,500 --> 01:20:29,880
Yes, sir, that is correct.

939
01:20:30,280 --> 01:20:34,340
In that shortfall, right, in revenue,

940
01:20:34,580 --> 01:20:38,540
if it doesn't change, it's made up through.

941
01:20:40,240 --> 01:20:42,160
Either what we have in the general fund,

942
01:20:42,160 --> 01:20:47,220
or if they will cut projects if necessary as the year goes on.

943
01:20:49,640 --> 01:20:50,460
There's... there's...

944
01:20:50,460 --> 01:20:54,080
Chris just gets reviews the budget every month with his staff

945
01:20:54,080 --> 01:20:57,360
and against Actuals and if he sees us,

946
01:20:57,380 --> 01:21:00,540
we have a wet ear and we're not having the revenues

947
01:21:00,540 --> 01:21:02,380
and then of course we don't have the collections.

948
01:21:03,120 --> 01:21:05,320
We look at projects so what can we defer?

949
01:21:08,260 --> 01:21:08,660
Yes sir.

950
01:21:09,540 --> 01:21:10,420
Here's not our word.

951
01:21:10,740 --> 01:21:11,900
No ma'am, it's not.

952
01:21:12,620 --> 01:21:18,560
So, again, reminder, next steps, the GRP Review Committee will vote on the budget and the rate

953
01:21:18,560 --> 01:21:19,500
order next month.

954
01:21:20,420 --> 01:21:25,680
We will bring the rate order to you in June, and then of course the budget will come

955
01:21:25,680 --> 01:21:28,660
with the rest of the S.J.R.A.'s budgets in August.

956
01:21:29,340 --> 01:21:30,680
What did you say the rate would be?

957
01:21:31,560 --> 01:21:33,280
267 and 326.

958
01:21:34,940 --> 01:21:36,460
Yes, ma'am, 11% reduction.

959
01:21:37,960 --> 01:21:39,040
And 326.

960
01:21:40,760 --> 01:21:42,140
Yes, ma'am.

961
01:21:42,140 --> 01:21:50,620
Pam, do we know what that reduction will amount to in terms of the average savings per household?

962
01:21:51,760 --> 01:21:52,700
We are exactly that.

963
01:21:52,760 --> 01:21:57,920
No, because since we wholesale it, we don't usually take it that far.

964
01:21:57,920 --> 01:21:58,840
That comes from the other end.

965
01:21:59,000 --> 01:21:59,480
Yes, sir.

966
01:21:59,480 --> 01:21:59,760
Okay.

967
01:22:00,260 --> 01:22:01,380
We can if you'd like to.

968
01:22:01,440 --> 01:22:01,960
I just wondered.

969
01:22:03,160 --> 01:22:03,940
What that would be.

970
01:22:09,930 --> 01:22:14,490
And I'll just make a comment that the Finance Committee did, as Pam said, meet through

971
01:22:14,490 --> 01:22:18,950
you this and appreciate all the work that's gone into it.

972
01:22:19,010 --> 01:22:20,510
They always do a great job over here.

973
01:22:21,270 --> 01:22:21,410
Thank you.

974
01:22:22,190 --> 01:22:22,730
Thank you.

975
01:22:23,070 --> 01:22:23,630
Much appreciated.

976
01:22:23,730 --> 01:22:27,770
Definitely a team effort with between the divisions and the accounting.

977
01:22:28,810 --> 01:22:29,650
Jamie drives it.

978
01:22:30,600 --> 01:22:39,940
Kelly is the G.R.P. accountant with Chris and Chris and his team, they meet a lot to get this refined and

979
01:22:39,940 --> 01:22:40,740
where they want it.

980
01:22:40,920 --> 01:22:41,560
So, thank you, Mark.

981
01:22:42,960 --> 01:22:48,120
You could almost say we've got the best service water in the lowest prices around, right?

982
01:22:52,460 --> 01:22:52,980
Okay.

983
01:22:53,540 --> 01:23:02,400
We're ready for 7B, which is a presentation, several presentations actually, since these are

984
01:23:02,400 --> 01:23:12,480
small ten-year project plans. So the first one is with the Highlands Kit Crab will present that as well as our lake con row.

985
01:23:13,460 --> 01:23:21,700
Ten-year project plan. Bear branch will follow that with Brianna Gallagher, presenting that one in the raw water enterprise.

986
01:23:21,700 --> 01:23:23,660
so that merit will present.

987
01:23:25,140 --> 01:23:25,360
OK.

988
01:23:26,300 --> 01:23:26,940
Morning, everyone.

989
01:23:27,200 --> 01:23:29,620
Kit Crab here to present the Highlands

990
01:23:29,620 --> 01:23:31,400
Division 10 Year Project Plan.

991
01:23:33,280 --> 01:23:35,020
So starting off, this is an overview

992
01:23:35,020 --> 01:23:39,460
of the Highlands Division System and the projects

993
01:23:39,460 --> 01:23:43,000
and locations that are on the 10 year project plan.

994
01:23:43,480 --> 01:23:44,400
Throughout this presentation,

995
01:23:44,680 --> 01:23:46,980
I'm going to focus in on the projects

996
01:23:46,980 --> 01:23:49,400
for fiscal year 25, so the projects

997
01:23:49,400 --> 01:23:55,420
either currently in construction in design or that you will be seeing for approval in fiscal year

998
01:23:55,420 --> 01:24:02,520
25. One of the things I want to highlight on this graphic is that a lot of our focus in the

999
01:24:02,520 --> 01:24:08,320
next 10 years is going to be on the main canal and on the South Canal. So we have a lot of

1000
01:24:08,320 --> 01:24:14,720
levee improvements coming up and a lot of focus on replacement or improvement of those older

1001
01:24:14,720 --> 01:24:19,020
structures within our system. We do still have some structures in our system that are

1002
01:24:19,020 --> 01:24:24,120
original to the system, so they're from the 1940s. They've been rehabbed over the years

1003
01:24:24,120 --> 01:24:28,420
and they'll be in need of improvements to replacement here pretty soon.

1004
01:24:30,740 --> 01:24:31,500
When we look at the

1005
01:24:31,500 --> 01:24:35,920
projects of the 10-year project plan, there's three categories that these projects can fall into.

1006
01:24:36,460 --> 01:24:43,360
We have projects that our facilities related looking at our EOC or our pump stations. We have

1007
01:24:43,360 --> 01:24:49,400
our siphons and levees projects, again, doing improvements and replacement of structures.

1008
01:24:49,980 --> 01:24:53,700
And then we have projects related to operations and maintenance, so these could be more

1009
01:24:53,700 --> 01:24:57,760
looking at access within the system or improving operations.

1010
01:25:01,210 --> 01:25:05,910
The first project on here is Diphon 1617 and 18 erosion repairs.

1011
01:25:05,930 --> 01:25:10,590
This project is currently in construction and will wrap up construction at the beginning of fiscal

1012
01:25:10,590 --> 01:25:11,350
year 25.

1013
01:25:11,350 --> 01:25:17,470
I did have a few photos up here just to show the current progress for this project.

1014
01:25:17,770 --> 01:25:23,110
Siphon 16 is the one on the screen and that is a structure that, again, was original to

1015
01:25:23,110 --> 01:25:23,650
the system.

1016
01:25:23,890 --> 01:25:28,490
It's been improved over the years by passes added and so what we've done is installed

1017
01:25:28,490 --> 01:25:29,170
sheet piling.

1018
01:25:29,590 --> 01:25:34,770
We've used flow filled to fill in all the voids underneath and around the structure and

1019
01:25:34,770 --> 01:25:39,470
we're going back in and adding channel protection, channel armoring and the form of rip

1020
01:25:39,470 --> 01:25:40,370
wrap at those structures.

1021
01:25:40,370 --> 01:25:50,950
So we're hoping to extend the life of these structures 10 plus years, pushing them out of the current 10 year project plan to make room and make way for some projects that had a little bit higher priority.

1022
01:25:54,390 --> 01:26:04,090
Siphon 39 and Levy improvements. This is a project that is getting designed and will be constructed as one project and one contract, but it is two projects within the 10 year project plan.

1023
01:26:04,090 --> 01:26:12,950
This one is currently in final design, we will be advertising it for construction later this calendar year and this was a customer driven project.

1024
01:26:12,950 --> 01:26:17,670
We have received and will receive customer contributions for a portion of this project.

1025
01:26:20,940 --> 01:26:35,080
Main canal levy improvements between like Houston pump station and Siphon 6 has historically been on the tenure project plan and his historically been pushed further and further as we were able to delay the project by removing structures in the system.

1026
01:26:35,080 --> 01:26:39,060
However, we are seeing significant high priority

1027
01:26:39,060 --> 01:26:42,180
levee erosion throughout the stretch of the levees,

1028
01:26:42,600 --> 01:26:45,400
and it is an area of the system that we've identified

1029
01:26:45,400 --> 01:26:48,340
needs levee raising in order to improve capacity

1030
01:26:48,340 --> 01:26:51,400
and increase capacity within the system as a whole.

1031
01:26:51,960 --> 01:26:54,080
We are currently in a preliminary design

1032
01:26:54,620 --> 01:26:56,780
for this doing some hydraulic modeling.

1033
01:26:56,940 --> 01:26:59,380
We will move into final design for this project

1034
01:26:59,380 --> 01:27:03,100
next fiscal year and then into construction after that.

1035
01:27:06,840 --> 01:27:12,700
The next two slides are similar to 39 and 11 improvements that is two projects in the 10-year

1036
01:27:12,700 --> 01:27:18,460
project plan but looking at being design and construction, design and constructed as one.

1037
01:27:18,960 --> 01:27:23,440
They're on the lower left is a graphic to help orient you with where these locations are

1038
01:27:23,440 --> 01:27:23,860
located.

1039
01:27:24,440 --> 01:27:30,400
These are near the Highlands Reservoir and near the Highlands Office or EOC and the 11 improvements

1040
01:27:30,400 --> 01:27:35,200
are needed because we are seeing a lot of erosion in this area as well.

1041
01:27:35,200 --> 01:27:40,680
Again, another project that has been pushed off, and then there are some areas of low

1042
01:27:40,680 --> 01:27:44,840
levees within the stretch as well that we're needing to improve.

1043
01:27:48,750 --> 01:27:54,710
Structure 2 is one of two structures that we use to push water into the Highlands reservoir.

1044
01:27:55,550 --> 01:27:59,910
This is, as you can see, as structure that's not much to it, as a couple pipes and a couple

1045
01:27:59,910 --> 01:28:00,450
gates.

1046
01:28:00,930 --> 01:28:04,590
The erosion is occurring around the gates, so we're not sure that they're functioning very

1047
01:28:04,590 --> 01:28:10,150
as well. We will be replacing this with a structure that looks very similar to our typical

1048
01:28:10,150 --> 01:28:18,250
standard new syphens. And this is also a location that is a restraint for us, a hydraulic

1049
01:28:18,250 --> 01:28:22,590
restraint. We can only push so much water into the reservoir through this location, so we're

1050
01:28:22,590 --> 01:28:24,250
looking at improving that as well.

1051
01:28:28,400 --> 01:28:33,120
Thank you, St. Pempsation Pemps and Motor Replacement. We are going to be replacing the Pemps

1052
01:28:33,120 --> 01:28:42,080
motors. We're switching from the 2400 volt to 480. We are finishing up construction for the

1053
01:28:42,080 --> 01:28:48,260
remote operation center out at Lake Houston and half of that building was the switch

1054
01:28:48,260 --> 01:28:53,400
gear rim. So all of the future electrical equipment for these pumps and motors and new pumps

1055
01:28:53,400 --> 01:28:59,560
and motors will be located in that new ROC building. There's also with this project going to be

1056
01:28:59,560 --> 01:29:04,080
looking at a new generator and some improvements there as well.

1057
01:29:05,360 --> 01:29:08,020
We will be starting final design for this project next fiscal year.

1058
01:29:12,140 --> 01:29:16,060
The Highlands Reservoir Dam is considered an intermediate size high hazard dam,

1059
01:29:16,280 --> 01:29:18,760
and so we do have an emergency action plan with that.

1060
01:29:18,800 --> 01:29:21,800
We look at that on an annual basis and update it,

1061
01:29:22,080 --> 01:29:27,400
but every five years we do have to have a more significant look at that EAP

1062
01:29:27,400 --> 01:29:30,980
and do a table top exercise so we will be doing that next fiscal year.

1063
01:29:35,370 --> 01:29:39,290
722 Culver improvements is more of an operation and maintenance project.

1064
01:29:40,070 --> 01:29:44,670
There is a drainage channel that crosses at Sife in 22, it is on our main canal,

1065
01:29:45,050 --> 01:29:51,790
and it is difficult for our operators to access that site and get around it.

1066
01:29:51,850 --> 01:29:55,290
So it's very difficult for them to move, spray and maintain that structure.

1067
01:29:55,930 --> 01:29:59,810
So with this project we will be looking at adding a culvert across the full easement.

1068
01:30:07,570 --> 01:30:14,170
This is a new project. If you remember on the map graphic, there were a lot of hatching on the main canal for

1069
01:30:14,170 --> 01:30:21,150
Libby improvements. This is a project that we have identified, which is loving improvements from

1070
01:30:21,150 --> 01:30:31,290
7-7-7-9, very similar to the other levee improvements projects. We have significant erosion in this area and through the hydraulic modeling that we've done for other projects in the past.

1071
01:30:31,550 --> 01:30:44,970
This has been a location that's been flagged for low levees and in need of levee raising. This is a project that we will be issuing our Q4 here in the next month or so on getting design started next fiscal year.

1072
01:30:49,070 --> 01:30:57,230
The East Canal Transfer Pumstation is located at the intersection of CUS Canal, coastal water authorities canal and the estuary East Canal.

1073
01:30:57,910 --> 01:31:03,870
When this project was constructed, they did take into consideration future expansion of that Pumstation.

1074
01:31:04,390 --> 01:31:10,890
So when we talk about doing any campus improvements, we are considering any future expansion at that location as well.

1075
01:31:10,890 --> 01:31:38,590
We did have a master plan done for our EOC location, and what stemmed from that master plan was making improvements on our eScanale pump station where we already have site security and adding some different storage buildings there to move equipment and things that nature from our EOC campus to the eScanale transfer pump station campus to make our use of EOC campus more effective.

1076
01:31:38,590 --> 01:31:44,710
So, this project will be looking at adding just a pre-engineered metal building specifically

1077
01:31:44,710 --> 01:31:50,030
for Skata for them to store equipment and materials.

1078
01:31:50,890 --> 01:31:57,810
And then also adding in a stop-log storage location, so we'd have a hand crane be able to

1079
01:31:57,810 --> 01:32:03,830
easily transfer these stop-logs onto a trailer to mobilize quickly to our locations when they

1080
01:32:03,830 --> 01:32:04,470
need them.

1081
01:32:04,470 --> 01:32:08,730
Currently, all of our soft logs are stacked one on top of each other on a really big trailer,

1082
01:32:09,210 --> 01:32:11,110
which makes it difficult to do that.

1083
01:32:12,630 --> 01:32:13,610
We are birds.

1084
01:32:16,810 --> 01:32:21,770
It's only a few miles from the main office, so this was also an area that we'd identified

1085
01:32:21,770 --> 01:32:27,550
if skated needed to have a deliveries made to it that it would be easy to get out there and

1086
01:32:27,550 --> 01:32:30,770
an easy for a trek to make deliveries there as well.

1087
01:32:36,110 --> 01:32:45,050
Barth Road is on our East Canal, is located downstream of our Transfer Composition, making it a higher priority location for us, looking at Replacement.

1088
01:32:45,810 --> 01:32:51,550
So we will be replacing this Typhine, it's currently a single 48-inch pipe going underneath Garth Road.

1089
01:32:51,850 --> 01:32:55,390
We'll replace it with our standard Cyphines.

1090
01:32:58,900 --> 01:33:03,960
And then the last project I have for you is the South Canal Transfer Composition Capacity Improvements Project.

1091
01:33:03,960 --> 01:33:09,880
this was a customer driven project due to anticipated growth in their demand.

1092
01:33:10,760 --> 01:33:14,520
And so a project that had previously been on the 10-year project plan was the replacement

1093
01:33:14,520 --> 01:33:16,680
of the stock military transfer consultation generator.

1094
01:33:17,060 --> 01:33:19,660
We've incorporated that project into this project.

1095
01:33:20,280 --> 01:33:25,980
We will be looking at building a new transfer consultation to increase the capacity.

1096
01:33:28,410 --> 01:33:35,850
For next fiscal year, we're looking at around $20 million over all with the 10 years around $133 million.

1097
01:33:36,350 --> 01:33:41,470
But something that is a little bit new for us, this fiscal year, is looking at bond funds.

1098
01:33:41,990 --> 01:33:52,930
So in the past few years, we had moved solely to using our and our funds, but due to the need of the projects and the tenure project plan, the schedules that they're on,

1099
01:33:52,930 --> 01:34:00,790
We have identified that we do need bond funding for some of those projects to keep us on track.

1100
01:34:00,930 --> 01:34:08,730
Keep us replacing structures that need to be replaced and doing these loving improvements that we can no longer keep pushing back in the 10 year project plan.

1101
01:34:09,370 --> 01:34:13,030
Additionally, there were a few projects in the 10 year project plan that were customer driven.

1102
01:34:13,570 --> 01:34:18,310
So we have received and we will receive additional funding from our customer.

1103
01:34:18,310 --> 01:34:22,550
And so the remainder of that will be made up by the R&R fund.

1104
01:34:24,710 --> 01:34:27,930
With that, I'll ask if there are any questions on the

1105
01:34:27,930 --> 01:34:29,230
file-insteading of project plan.

1106
01:34:35,330 --> 01:34:37,830
That's correct. So these would be projects

1107
01:34:37,830 --> 01:34:39,970
purely for the benefit of a single customer

1108
01:34:39,970 --> 01:34:43,630
that we would be coordinating with to execute

1109
01:34:43,630 --> 01:34:47,870
supplemental agreements with for specific projects.

1110
01:34:51,360 --> 01:35:00,300
Kit, where Arcaneal goes through Crosby and behind the friendly forward, they're in Crosby.

1111
01:35:00,640 --> 01:35:06,280
The owner of that property asked me what I was taking place with the canal and about

1112
01:35:06,280 --> 01:35:09,300
how long it would take, what's the best response that I can give him.

1113
01:35:09,700 --> 01:35:13,760
So that was the first slide, the 1617 and 18-a-reson repair project.

1114
01:35:14,440 --> 01:35:21,820
We will be finishing that project, I believe, in September, October of this year.

1115
01:35:24,480 --> 01:35:30,060
But as far as what's going on, we're doing some erosion repair around the structures

1116
01:35:30,060 --> 01:35:34,220
to increase their life's fans that we're not having to fully replace them at this time.

1117
01:35:34,220 --> 01:35:36,260
Great, very water flow through there, more capacity.

1118
01:35:37,160 --> 01:35:43,080
We had significant erosion around 1617 and 18, so there's not any capacity improvements,

1119
01:35:43,660 --> 01:35:53,080
but just extending that by adding sheet-piling, adding flow fill, adding rip-rop so that we're not having any sort of emergency project pop-up on those.

1120
01:35:54,160 --> 01:35:55,200
Okay, thank you.

1121
01:36:12,190 --> 01:36:14,070
Thank you.

1122
01:36:18,530 --> 01:36:20,350
You have to listen to me for a few more minutes.

1123
01:36:22,390 --> 01:36:24,510
Like, kind of a division, tenure project plan.

1124
01:36:26,330 --> 01:36:34,050
So, again, like the Highlands Project Plan, this is an image to show you the locations of projects

1125
01:36:34,050 --> 01:36:36,210
over the Junior Project Plan.

1126
01:36:36,430 --> 01:36:42,010
However, this presentation is going to focus on projects for fiscal year 25.

1127
01:36:45,560 --> 01:36:49,640
In the same way as the Highlands, we do have a few categories that these projects fall under.

1128
01:36:49,860 --> 01:36:55,620
We do have facilities related projects, spill away infrastructure and system projects, and then

1129
01:36:55,620 --> 01:36:56,640
the O&M projects.

1130
01:36:59,750 --> 01:37:07,890
So there's really only one project that we want to focus in on for fiscal year 25, and that is the maintenance facility improvements project.

1131
01:37:08,330 --> 01:37:11,870
The Lake Hunter maintenance facility is located on the Lake Hunter campus.

1132
01:37:12,330 --> 01:37:15,750
As you enter the gate entering the campus, it is there on the left.

1133
01:37:16,370 --> 01:37:24,010
A number of the structures at this facility are original to construction of the dam, so they are aging and in need of replacement.

1134
01:37:25,210 --> 01:37:27,050
This project started back in 28.

1135
01:37:30,000 --> 01:37:46,840
Facility, campus, where we looked not only at the campus but at the late Conrad Division office here on the dam. We considered current and future needs for offices, for equipment, future equipment, and determine what we needed to do.

1136
01:37:47,000 --> 01:37:51,780
The recommendation from that master plan was to construct a new maintenance facility.

1137
01:37:51,780 --> 01:37:52,660
I

1138
01:37:56,020 --> 01:37:58,980
have a few fun animations here for you on this slide.

1139
01:37:59,280 --> 01:38:02,320
I just wanted to run through what this project encompasses,

1140
01:38:02,760 --> 01:38:06,000
because it's not as simple as building out in field.

1141
01:38:06,820 --> 01:38:09,520
We do have this project out for advertisement right now.

1142
01:38:09,540 --> 01:38:12,160
We will be receiving proposals next week,

1143
01:38:12,740 --> 01:38:17,000
and we have had a lot of contact engagement on this project,

1144
01:38:17,280 --> 01:38:21,080
so we're very hopeful to get some good, competitive proposals.

1145
01:38:22,480 --> 01:38:29,800
The first piece of this project will be construction of a new maintenance facility, which requires the demolition of the existing facility.

1146
01:38:30,380 --> 01:38:36,960
The new maintenance facility is going to have a maintenance area, work area, as well as office space.

1147
01:38:39,250 --> 01:38:48,710
We will also be constructing a new covered storage. This will be a concrete slab covered storage, not just for parking or for employee parking.

1148
01:38:48,710 --> 01:38:53,770
this is covered storage for equipment, so looking at storing our boats or trailers or tractors.

1149
01:38:55,610 --> 01:39:00,570
We do have to shift the fuel facility out of the way to make room for the maintenance

1150
01:39:00,570 --> 01:39:06,910
facility, the new building, as well as being able to drive around that new facility, so we

1151
01:39:06,910 --> 01:39:08,390
will be shifting the fuel facility.

1152
01:39:08,690 --> 01:39:14,770
We are looking at using the existing tank, but getting new pumps, and we will be integrating

1153
01:39:14,770 --> 01:39:19,470
the fuel management system that has already been implemented by other divisions.

1154
01:39:20,110 --> 01:39:25,230
And the fuel facility does provide fuel not only for like Conra, but the G&A division as well.

1155
01:39:27,790 --> 01:39:32,270
We are keeping the existing wood shop, which is one of the original facilities,

1156
01:39:32,990 --> 01:39:39,110
but we will be doing rehab on that, which will be replacing some columns, panels, and painting the exterior.

1157
01:39:41,110 --> 01:39:45,570
With this project there will be a generator that will be installed capable of

1158
01:39:45,570 --> 01:39:50,310
to apply the facility and then additional site improvements are needed.

1159
01:39:50,690 --> 01:39:55,970
So we are having to remove the existing rubics system and installing a new rubics system,

1160
01:39:56,570 --> 01:40:02,690
new water line coming from the GNA well down to this facility, looking at drainage around

1161
01:40:02,690 --> 01:40:07,430
the facility, adding some improvements there as well as lighting and security.

1162
01:40:08,910 --> 01:40:13,910
One of the things that I want to point out is that we did take every effort to protect the

1163
01:40:15,590 --> 01:40:27,650
There is a new driveway that will be installed on the north side, but it is going between two trees over there, and we did ensure that there's whip and true protection was adequate.

1164
01:40:31,320 --> 01:40:35,980
There is a modular building out there that is where a number of folks are office.

1165
01:40:36,460 --> 01:40:44,360
This building will actually be moved down to the Coast Guard for their use, and that will be happening before the construction serves.

1166
01:40:47,210 --> 01:41:00,170
I do have the floor plan of the New Maintenance Facility here for you to take a look at, as I mentioned, about half of that building is going to be office space, conference room kitchen, et cetera, and then the other half is the maintenance area.

1167
01:41:00,690 --> 01:41:16,550
When we were doing the master plan for the facility, we did talk to a number of other agencies, went and did a lot of tours of other facilities of a similar size in nature and took into consideration their feedback when developing the layout for the facility.

1168
01:41:17,690 --> 01:41:23,570
As I mentioned, we are out for bid right now and we are hoping to bring this to you for approval in July.

1169
01:41:28,600 --> 01:41:31,860
I wanted to quickly touch on a few other upcoming projects.

1170
01:41:32,780 --> 01:41:35,460
Previously mentioned in the GNA division,

1171
01:41:37,280 --> 01:41:40,380
tenure project plan, the late Connor Campus Payment Improvements project.

1172
01:41:40,540 --> 01:41:43,600
So this is a project that is split between like Connor and GNA.

1173
01:41:44,100 --> 01:41:49,280
And this project will be happening after construction of the late Connor maintenance facility is completed.

1174
01:41:49,280 --> 01:41:54,300
So that will be looking at widening and replacing that road with that project.

1175
01:41:54,420 --> 01:41:56,440
We will also be looking at access improvements.

1176
01:41:56,500 --> 01:42:01,640
This is referring to the entrance and switching out the gates there so that we would have two lanes.

1177
01:42:01,880 --> 01:42:03,020
One entering and one exiting.

1178
01:42:04,060 --> 01:42:07,020
And then on a five year basis we do have the dam inspection.

1179
01:42:07,340 --> 01:42:09,240
So that will be coming up in fiscal year 26.

1180
01:42:13,290 --> 01:42:20,490
Next fiscal year we're at about $2.6 million overall for the next 10 years at approximately $16 million.

1181
01:42:22,130 --> 01:42:26,070
With that, I'll see if there are any questions about the link under it in your project plan.

1182
01:42:28,310 --> 01:42:28,990
I have a question.

1183
01:42:30,290 --> 01:42:31,610
We voted on last year.

1184
01:42:31,730 --> 01:42:32,790
What did we vote on?

1185
01:42:32,950 --> 01:42:33,990
Just the study?

1186
01:42:36,510 --> 01:42:38,310
For this product, for the maintenance project.

1187
01:42:38,810 --> 01:42:39,330
Maintenance building.

1188
01:42:40,050 --> 01:42:42,850
So last year would have been the engineering.

1189
01:42:43,770 --> 01:42:49,530
We'd had a design contract for the final design of the maintenance facility itself.

1190
01:42:49,670 --> 01:42:51,270
This is the result of that study.

1191
01:42:58,750 --> 01:43:04,990
You might have seen some patches along the intro, where we're trying to extend its life a little bit.

1192
01:43:04,990 --> 01:43:05,350
All right.

1193
01:43:12,500 --> 01:43:14,220
We have another presentation.

1194
01:43:24,960 --> 01:43:26,740
Good morning again.

1195
01:43:27,240 --> 01:43:30,540
Today, I'll give you, we'll be giving you the Bear Brants to your project plan.

1196
01:43:31,100 --> 01:43:32,400
Some are to the late Conor One.

1197
01:43:32,580 --> 01:43:34,500
It's really to cover one project.

1198
01:43:35,280 --> 01:43:38,540
One that we're really excited is actually occurring right now.

1199
01:43:38,540 --> 01:43:46,020
Before we go over that, I wanted to briefly show an aerial of the actual drainage system for the bare branch system.

1200
01:43:46,400 --> 01:43:49,560
The area in the yellow is the entire system.

1201
01:43:49,800 --> 01:43:56,260
It includes album branch and panther branch, and it has bare branch, and then I'll flow together and go downstream.

1202
01:43:57,460 --> 01:44:02,580
The red area you see right there by Curgonol Road, that is the dam itself.

1203
01:44:02,580 --> 01:44:07,760
And then the grain, the purple and all the other colors, are the five modes that actually

1204
01:44:07,760 --> 01:44:11,480
fund the operations and maintenance of the system.

1205
01:44:12,000 --> 01:44:17,840
And so our good folks at Lake Honro, they are the ones that operate in maintain bare branch,

1206
01:44:18,600 --> 01:44:23,440
they are the ones that go out and do weekly inspections, any de-snagging, any pre-clean up.

1207
01:44:23,960 --> 01:44:27,780
They are the ones that keep bare branch so nice.

1208
01:44:29,380 --> 01:44:34,100
With that, similar to the other 10-year project plans you've seen, there are a number

1209
01:44:34,100 --> 01:44:39,420
of things that go into the 10-year project plans I'll be touching on the items that touch

1210
01:44:39,420 --> 01:44:45,420
fiscal year 2025 and other than that, we do have in later fiscal years our emergency action

1211
01:44:45,420 --> 01:44:51,440
plan for bare branch, our five-year inspection for TCQ and we are providing some project management

1212
01:44:51,440 --> 01:44:55,280
assistance with those water agency on one of their projects.

1213
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:12,780
It's got a couple different names, but we've been calling it the bare branch modification project. This is what the core has recognized as the title of the project. So it's just easier to give it that same title as I talk about it.

1214
01:45:12,900 --> 01:45:24,340
The first part is the sole cement repairs. That is the area in the red hatched lining. As you can see on the bottom right, that is the pictures of the sole cement conditions, probably about a year ago.

1215
01:45:24,340 --> 01:45:32,980
And so, it still looks the same, during planning, we've talked about replacing the top 10 to 12

1216
01:45:32,980 --> 01:45:37,760
inches of the soil cement with reinforced concrete that is likely what's still going to happen,

1217
01:45:38,120 --> 01:45:42,060
but we do now have a consultant on board looking at the soil cement and the service

1218
01:45:42,060 --> 01:45:47,340
spillway and we're in preliminary engineering right now and so they're going to present us

1219
01:45:47,340 --> 01:45:51,500
alternatives and ideas on the best path forward to replacing the soil cement.

1220
01:45:51,500 --> 01:45:57,700
The total project costs as of right now for the solicitor repairs is a little under $2 million.

1221
01:46:01,710 --> 01:46:07,430
The next part of the project is the service bill replacement that is in the area and the red hatched lines.

1222
01:46:07,670 --> 01:46:10,250
That's going to include the service bill and the plunge pool.

1223
01:46:10,930 --> 01:46:16,330
This one is going to be looking at a number of alternatives that our consultant is also looking at.

1224
01:46:17,410 --> 01:46:22,650
There's nothing, nothing is going to change about this except the shape of the structure.

1225
01:46:22,650 --> 01:46:30,390
It will pass the same amount of flow, so it's not going to change anything other than the shape of the structure itself.

1226
01:46:31,570 --> 01:46:39,470
And it'll include things that the current spillway doesn't have like effective joins and water stops that currently don't exist with the current service spillway.

1227
01:46:40,050 --> 01:46:43,290
This portion of the project costs a little over $3 million.

1228
01:46:46,780 --> 01:46:51,200
The total projected tenure cost for our bare branch division is a little over $5 million,

1229
01:46:52,140 --> 01:46:58,260
but I want to keep in mind the bare branch modification project is partially being funded by the core.

1230
01:46:58,520 --> 01:47:01,460
We are receiving enrollment infrastructure funds for that project.

1231
01:47:01,920 --> 01:47:06,720
So we're receiving $3.6 million to cover the $5 million project.

1232
01:47:08,260 --> 01:47:16,060
We are in PER for that project right now, so we'll have a better idea of what actual cost is going to be once we get towards it.

1233
01:47:16,060 --> 01:47:18,720
to P.R., our consultant will be getting us an opinion

1234
01:47:18,720 --> 01:47:20,540
of probably a construction cost for that.

1235
01:47:21,040 --> 01:47:22,920
So we're hoping it doesn't change too much.

1236
01:47:23,100 --> 01:47:25,240
But if it does, we are prepared to go back

1237
01:47:25,240 --> 01:47:27,140
to the core for additional funding.

1238
01:47:28,640 --> 01:47:31,260
With that, that is the bare branch in your project plan.

1239
01:47:31,780 --> 01:47:33,840
If you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them.

1240
01:47:33,940 --> 01:47:35,320
If not, I hope you all have a good day.

1241
01:47:38,970 --> 01:47:39,710
All right, have a good day.

1242
01:48:04,780 --> 01:48:05,480
Good morning, everyone.

1243
01:48:05,680 --> 01:48:07,740
And as I'll be mentioned, I'm going to give you a brief overview

1244
01:48:07,740 --> 01:48:10,360
of the Roll War Air Prize 10-year project plan.

1245
01:48:11,300 --> 01:48:17,440
Just to start as a quick refresher, the World Water Enterprise is the internal enterprise that

1246
01:48:17,440 --> 01:48:21,680
over follows over the umbrella over the Lake Conrad Division and the Highlands Division,

1247
01:48:22,040 --> 01:48:27,880
as which you've already heard presentation on the day, as well as our raw water supply efforts.

1248
01:48:28,160 --> 01:48:32,880
So where the Lake Conrad Highlands Division's handle the operation side of providing

1249
01:48:32,880 --> 01:48:37,820
raw water to customers, the raw water supply looks at planning for future, obtaining water

1250
01:48:37,820 --> 01:48:39,780
rights, managing water rights does type of thing.

1251
01:48:39,780 --> 01:48:43,020
So that left-hand Roll Wars plays really what this project

1252
01:48:43,020 --> 01:48:44,440
playing focuses on.

1253
01:48:47,620 --> 01:48:50,160
So the S.J.A. provides surface water to two service

1254
01:48:50,160 --> 01:48:50,420
series.

1255
01:48:50,460 --> 01:48:51,340
I mean, Roll Wars usually.

1256
01:48:51,500 --> 01:48:54,000
To two service areas, one is Montgomery County,

1257
01:48:54,120 --> 01:48:55,700
which you see there in the Orange color.

1258
01:48:56,420 --> 01:48:59,580
And then while our jurisdictional boundary does not include

1259
01:48:59,580 --> 01:49:01,520
Harris County, we have an agreement with the city

1260
01:49:01,520 --> 01:49:05,320
fused and allows us to provide roll water to customers

1261
01:49:05,320 --> 01:49:08,200
east of the San Jose River in Harris County.

1262
01:49:08,260 --> 01:49:10,940
So that's the area you see highlighted there in green.

1263
01:49:11,080 --> 01:49:12,700
So those are the two areas we focus on.

1264
01:49:12,700 --> 01:49:17,340
making sure there's ample water supply to provide to customers in those areas.

1265
01:49:17,780 --> 01:49:21,020
It really, all that we do in the Rollwater Enterprise, the Rollwater Supply,

1266
01:49:21,540 --> 01:49:25,860
is core to extra is mission of conserving, developing and protecting water of the same simple ways.

1267
01:49:29,800 --> 01:49:34,000
So the first project I want to cover is really the backbone of everything we do in Rollwater Enterprise.

1268
01:49:34,500 --> 01:49:36,460
And that's our Rollwater Supply Master Plan.

1269
01:49:36,680 --> 01:49:39,340
The first Rollwater Supply Match Plan was developed in 2018.

1270
01:49:40,300 --> 01:49:45,340
It did a 50-year planning look ahead of what Rollwater Supplies we have available.

1271
01:49:45,340 --> 01:50:03,480
What customer demands look like 50 years in the future, both existing customers and potential future customers and determine what the difference was between the supplies we had, the demands we projected, what projects and water rights and things we need to obtain and construct and put into place to be able to meet those needs into the future.

1272
01:50:03,820 --> 01:50:08,740
Roll water projects are costly, they're large scale, they can involve logging environmental permitting.

1273
01:50:08,740 --> 01:50:13,040
So if you wait until you need the water supply, it's too late to build a project to get it.

1274
01:50:13,120 --> 01:50:15,820
So this is why we do such a long look ahead for these efforts.

1275
01:50:16,660 --> 01:50:18,600
There's no funding anticipated FI-25.

1276
01:50:19,300 --> 01:50:24,620
We are currently wrapping up the latest update to the Rollwater Maxx Plan and this year 24 is our goal.

1277
01:50:24,980 --> 01:50:29,780
Then we will have subsequent plans of the plan as every five years, really in perpetuity.

1278
01:50:30,800 --> 01:50:34,320
So for the 10-year project plan, the total project estimates about 1.7 million,

1279
01:50:34,320 --> 01:50:38,640
but that does not include future or even our past, our past study or our future plans,

1280
01:50:38,640 --> 01:50:40,540
again, we'll continue on into the future.

1281
01:50:44,020 --> 01:50:49,060
The next three projects I want to cover are all related to permit applications with TCQ.

1282
01:50:49,520 --> 01:50:54,460
The first is for return flows from Buds, 89 McGurmer County, Buds, 89, and the City

1283
01:50:54,460 --> 01:50:55,380
of Huntsville.

1284
01:50:55,820 --> 01:50:59,780
They have permits to discharge wastewater discharge flows into Lake Conro.

1285
01:51:00,440 --> 01:51:05,260
Esturized City, Houston, a few years back into the settlement agreement with those entities

1286
01:51:05,260 --> 01:51:09,740
where we could take possession of some of those return flows to get discharge into Lake

1287
01:51:09,740 --> 01:51:14,920
of this project is to go to TCU, get a formal water-right permit, allowing us to get those

1288
01:51:14,920 --> 01:51:15,580
flows.

1289
01:51:16,020 --> 01:51:20,560
Total project estimate of about $300,000 to obtain that permit.

1290
01:51:24,200 --> 01:51:27,440
Next is an amendment to our Lake Conno diversion rate.

1291
01:51:27,860 --> 01:51:30,180
That's in our Water Supply Permit, our Lake Conno.

1292
01:51:30,780 --> 01:51:35,560
The goal of this project is to increase the 700 cubic feet per second that Brett referenced

1293
01:51:35,560 --> 01:51:36,100
earlier.

1294
01:51:37,020 --> 01:51:40,140
And really what that does is it just provides us more flexibility and the city

1295
01:51:40,140 --> 01:51:45,840
use the more flexibility in being able to divert water for our customers and for various

1296
01:51:45,840 --> 01:51:46,600
uses.

1297
01:51:47,060 --> 01:51:51,160
Total project estimate of about $150,000 to pursue that amendment to our permit.

1298
01:51:55,170 --> 01:52:00,210
And the third permitting project is by far the largest in scale similar to the MUDZ-89

1299
01:52:00,210 --> 01:52:00,990
Huntsville project.

1300
01:52:01,070 --> 01:52:05,210
This is related to return flows, wastewater return flows, but whereas that project was

1301
01:52:05,210 --> 01:52:09,910
looking at Lake Conros specifically, this is looking at targeting all of the return flows

1302
01:52:09,910 --> 01:52:13,650
in the entire upper stages in a river basin, which you see there, in his bright

1303
01:52:13,650 --> 01:52:16,050
shoulder, there's about 3,000 square miles of area.

1304
01:52:16,950 --> 01:52:21,350
So, a lot of water that's being discharged and will continue to grow as development happens

1305
01:52:21,350 --> 01:52:25,250
in the region, this is really the low hanging fruit, if you will, in water supply.

1306
01:52:30,000 --> 01:52:37,060
Are you going to be there? It's not that we have to go and build infrastructure to pull water in from a different region or to do anything like that.

1307
01:52:37,280 --> 01:52:46,280
So it's even though it's $1.5 million, our estimate is much more cost effective than going and building a pipeline or doing a major infrastructure project to get other water supplies.

1308
01:52:47,240 --> 01:52:56,600
And you'll notice that's a several year project, we're estimating it running through fiscal year 2028 to student amount of permitting coordination with TCQ, those type things that will be required.

1309
01:53:00,820 --> 01:53:06,380
Similar to our raw water master plan, we perform every five years a raw water rate study.

1310
01:53:06,660 --> 01:53:09,640
Again, we're currently wrapping up the latest iteration of that study.

1311
01:53:09,880 --> 01:53:11,500
The goal is this fiscal year to face that.

1312
01:53:12,100 --> 01:53:16,320
We do this every five years in order to first, to meet contractual requirements,

1313
01:53:16,520 --> 01:53:17,620
we have some of our customers.

1314
01:53:18,400 --> 01:53:23,440
And then second, and really, most importantly, to ensure that we are developing rates that make sense,

1315
01:53:23,460 --> 01:53:26,700
that allow us to do all the work and like Conor on the island's division,

1316
01:53:26,700 --> 01:53:29,220
that we need to do to keep our infrastructure up and running.

1317
01:53:29,220 --> 01:53:34,160
and then just to set appropriate rates and fair rates for our customers, the total project

1318
01:53:34,160 --> 01:53:40,200
estimates around $700,000 in the tenure project plan, again, that does not include future studies

1319
01:53:40,200 --> 01:53:43,100
that will continue in perpetuity every five years into the future.

1320
01:53:48,320 --> 01:53:51,420
And the last project is a little bit unique compared to the others.

1321
01:53:51,640 --> 01:53:54,560
So ASR stands for Office for Storage and Recovery, if you're not familiar.

1322
01:53:55,300 --> 01:54:00,240
And as a process by which, where normally you think of a well, you pump water out of the ground

1323
01:54:00,240 --> 01:54:05,440
use ASR allows you when you have a time of wet weather, you have additional water that you don't

1324
01:54:05,440 --> 01:54:10,020
have a need to sell, you can actually pump that water and check that water into the ground through

1325
01:54:10,020 --> 01:54:14,760
well, then you can put, you store in the aquifer, then you can put back out when you have a drive

1326
01:54:14,760 --> 01:54:18,280
part of the year where you need additional water, it's kind of how you balance your water usage

1327
01:54:18,280 --> 01:54:23,660
across the year. This is something we've been looking at for a number of years. We were playing

1328
01:54:23,660 --> 01:54:28,600
to do a study at the arrogance of doing a study to look at the feasibility of ASR in our

1329
01:54:28,600 --> 01:54:33,000
service areas. With perfect timing, Texas Board of Board approached us. They were mandated

1330
01:54:33,000 --> 01:54:37,540
by the state to study this and ask if we would be, we would like them to do a project

1331
01:54:37,540 --> 01:54:41,640
to our behalf to study. Of course, we accepted. So, Texas Board of Elmbury is performing

1332
01:54:41,640 --> 01:54:47,280
a feasibility study on ASR for us at no cost that really helped us to determine, is this

1333
01:54:47,280 --> 01:54:52,180
a feasible water supply strategy for us and in our region? If it is, then we could potentially

1334
01:54:52,180 --> 01:54:56,840
expand this in the future for additional phases. We just don't know what that study is going

1335
01:54:57,320 --> 01:54:59,280
more a couple of this.

1336
01:55:02,340 --> 01:55:03,280
Yes, yes.

1337
01:55:05,340 --> 01:55:09,020
The total project cost for the 10-year plan, a little over $3.2

1338
01:55:09,020 --> 01:55:13,140
million. And I'd be happy to take any questions you may.

1339
01:55:20,300 --> 01:55:22,700
So we're looking to wrap it up in the next three

1340
01:55:22,700 --> 01:55:26,420
months or so. We can absolutely do that, yes.

1341
01:55:32,370 --> 01:55:33,210
Thank you very much.

1342
01:55:33,790 --> 01:55:40,350
In regards to the study that is it costing us the name money, the Texas Water Development Board is doing.

1343
01:55:40,350 --> 01:55:43,350
So do we have input and not, how do you, okay?

1344
01:55:43,850 --> 01:55:46,930
We will, my understanding is that we'll submit, you know, draft the board to us, we'll

1345
01:55:46,930 --> 01:55:49,370
be able to take a look at that and give more comments and input.

1346
01:55:49,770 --> 01:55:50,290
Yes, ma'am.

1347
01:55:59,760 --> 01:56:03,560
What's all of our presentations under item seven for today?

1348
01:56:05,480 --> 01:56:07,320
Okay, at this time, we'll be going to the closed session.

1349
01:56:07,480 --> 01:56:09,440
The date is May 23, 2024.

1350
01:56:09,720 --> 01:56:11,620
The time is 9.57.

1351
01:56:12,260 --> 01:56:15,740
The Senate Senator of Authority Board of Directors now convened an executive session

1352
01:56:15,740 --> 01:56:21,540
pursuant to text the government code section 551.071 for consultation with the authorities

1353
01:56:21,540 --> 01:56:22,080
attorney.

1354
01:56:27,800 --> 01:56:33,900
1114 that concludes the May 23rd meeting of the Senate Senator of Authority Board of Directors

1355
01:56:33,900 --> 01:56:37,700
our next scheduled meeting will be June 27th.