Water Proposal

CRMWA schedules hearing
on plan to boost production

By David Bowser
Correspondent

WHITE DEER — The Canadian River Municipal Water Authority will take a further step toward developing more water resources for Amarillo and its other 10 member cities next week.

The Panhandle Groundwater Conservation District will hold a meeting at its offices here for public comments on the water authority's application to amend its production permits to include additional acreage and to drill eight more wells as part of its Phase 3 project to expand its well field in Roberts County.

The water authority holds an existing permit authorizing it to produce 67,608 acre-feet per year from the John C. Williams Well Field in Roberts County.

The water authority has acquired an additional 195,949 acres of contiguous water rights, which, under conservation district rules, would allow it a maximum production of 263,556 acre-feet of water per year.

They are asking for authorization of 69,000 acre-feet per year from wells in Phases 1, 2 and 3 of the well field, to feed their 11 member cities, including Pampa.

The water authority is also seeking a multiple-well permit to drill eight new 14-inch water wells in their well-field expansion.
While their water-right acreage includes land in Roberts, Gray, Hutchinson and Wheeler counties, the wells would be in Roberts County.

The public meeting for the water authority application will begin at 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 26, at the conservation district offices, 201 W. Third St., White Deer.

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Posted: March 20, 2008