NEWS
Groundwater district updates commissioners
By Barbara Green
Officials with the Upper Trinity Groundwater Conservation District updated the Montague County Commissioners Court Tuesday on its activities.
Doug Shaw, who took over as general manager on Feb. 1, met with the court along with the county’s two board appointments, Tracy Mesler, Nocona, who serves as board chairman, and Mike Berkley, Forestburg, director.
Shaw came to the Upper Trinity from the Texas Water Development Board where he worked as the rural ombudsman.
It has been a busy year for the district participating in a water quality study with other groundwater districts in the Barnett Shale. It included basis water quality analyses and test for chemical compounds and contaminants in select water wells. Read the full story from this week’s meeting in your Saturday News.
Pictured:
Mike Berkley, member of the Upper Trinity Groundwater Conservation District; General Manager Doug Shaw; and Board President Tracy Mesler address commissioners. (Photo by Barbara Green)
On Friday city officials reported the intersection at Rock and Pillar was closed due to a sinkhole in the street. This area has been experiencing major drainage problems for many years damaging culverts and the street asphalt and concrete, with a portion of the street collapsing earlier in the spring. Drivers should avoid this area.
The Nocona City Council approved a trio of Nocona Economic Development Corporation requests and considered infrastructure work questioned by a city council.
Councilors met on June 10. Two of the NEDC requests had already been presented with the timeclock for comment started. With that time limit over, the requests were finalized.
The Type A and B Boards will spend $19,225 at the Indian Oaks Golf Club for equipment, aerifying and top dressing the greens and batteries for rental carts. It also will expend $20,000 to the Nocona Chisholm Trail Rodeo Arena Committee to build new concrete bleachers, railings, fence and platform.
The third NEDC request is a new one related to a Type B board loan of $200,000 to Amy and Chris Nunneley for a new apartment and office construction project.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
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