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No citizens attend water report hearing

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By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
There were no citizen comments during the public hearing on the City of Bowie’s 2018 water quality report at Monday’s city council meeting.
During the last few weeks there have been lots of complaints about the city water on various social media sites. No citizens attended with the only questions coming from council members. Public Works Director Dean Grant gave a brief overview of the report which addresses the past year.
He explained the report studies all possible contaminants including lead and copper, disinfection by-products, radioactive and inorganic contaminants, turbidity and total organic carbon. The report notes many of these are naturally occurring particles.
Grant said lead and copper often show up in areas where there are much older homes where copper pipes or copper sodder were in use. Most of those items have been changed out through the years. If these materials are found additional testing is done within residences. Bowie’s water system has no violations in any of these areas and falls within the safe boundaries. Grant said an outside company does the data collection while the turbidity is tested in-house.

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Substation/transformer install back on track

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A crew from Scarborough Engineering was working on control termination wiring in the control room of the Bowie Substation last week. They were integrating additional equipment including the new transformer. Once everything is connected it will go through a testing phase. The transformer project has been stalled during the past year awaiting the arrival of various parts. (News photo by Barbara Green

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Amon Carter Lake Water Corp. reorganizes board

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By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
After more than a year of turmoil and upheaval it appears the Amon Carter Lake Water Supply Corporation is back on its feet with a slate of new board members and plans to review by-laws and operations.
Last August all the board members resigned in the wake of a lawsuit by a resident who could not obtain water for a small housing development despite being in the district. The property owner also accused the board of not following open meetings or open records laws, or its own by-laws.
After the board resigned a receivership was requested from the court and was named in December 2025. The receiver or temporary manager was Nocona attorney Zach Renfro, who was directed by the court to seek out possible directors to rehabilitate the association and assure it meets the obligation of continuing to provide water to more than 300 members.
The corporation board conducted its first general membership meeting on March 27 where a state of the corporation was given and new directors

named. They are Kevin McShan, president; Josh Swint, vice president; Carla Swofford, secretary; Wesley Kelly, treasurer; Zach Gunter, Rob Hankins and Chase Thomas, all directors.

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Lack of quorum cancels meeting

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The Bowie City Council meeting scheduled for April 28 was canceled due to the lack of a quorum.
Councilors Boyd Hulstine, Stephanie Post and Brent Shaw were present along with Mayor Gaylynn Burris, Four council members are required. Laramie Truax, Laura Sproles and TJay McEwen were absent. The agenda items were expected to be placed on the next agenda of business for the council.

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