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Protest LCRA's New Pipeline
RECEIVED Wed., Dec. 1, 2004
Dear Editor,
The Lower Colorado River Authority is poised to approve a huge water pipeline that will provide vastly more water for the Hamilton Pool Road region than would be allowed by SOS standards, the working model for regional development of environmentally sensitive land in Central Texas. A regional planning process, funded by LCRA itself along with other stakeholders, has been meeting for more than a year to come to consensus about how this part of Central Texas can be developed without destroying the aquifer that feeds our earth and the communities that are gathered here. This process will have completed its recommendations in six months. To end-run this process is tantamount to giving a huge grant to a few landowners and corporations who want to slip their deals in before regulations are put in place. LCRA doesn't have to make a decision on Dec. 7. They can choose to abide by the counsel of the regional plan, a project they in part initiated.
To make this point I recommend that everyone who reads this show up to protest the LCRA plan to approve a new water pipeline without giving regional planning groups time to get their recommendations finalized! Bring your friends and family: Thursday, Dec. 2, at 5pm on Lake Austin Boulevard in front of LCRA offices (where City Council meets), 3700 Lake Austin Blvd.
The Lower Colorado River Authority is poised to approve a huge water pipeline that will provide vastly more water for the Hamilton Pool Road region than would be allowed by SOS standards, the working model for regional development of environmentally sensitive land in Central Texas. A regional planning process, funded by LCRA itself along with other stakeholders, has been meeting for more than a year to come to consensus about how this part of Central Texas can be developed without destroying the aquifer that feeds our earth and the communities that are gathered here. This process will have completed its recommendations in six months. To end-run this process is tantamount to giving a huge grant to a few landowners and corporations who want to slip their deals in before regulations are put in place. LCRA doesn't have to make a decision on Dec. 7. They can choose to abide by the counsel of the regional plan, a project they in part initiated.
To make this point I recommend that everyone who reads this show up to protest the LCRA plan to approve a new water pipeline without giving regional planning groups time to get their recommendations finalized! Bring your friends and family: Thursday, Dec. 2, at 5pm on Lake Austin Boulevard in front of LCRA offices (where City Council meets), 3700 Lake Austin Blvd.
Susan Bright