NEWS
‘Bill’ bashes Montague County with heavy rain
The store at Snow’s Marina at Lake Nocona was flooded when the lake levels rose due to more than 12 inches of rainfall Wednesday. (Photo by Danna Snow)
Montague County was hit hard by Tropical Storm Bill with major flooding of roads and property across the county.
Rainfall reports span 12.64 inches reported by the Nocona Fire Department and 9.35 inches recorded at the Nocona Water Plant, to 5.42 inches recorded in Bowie.
As of Thursday at 3 p.m. Amon Carter Lake was at 927.26 msl, up 5.29 feet from the Monday level of 921.97 msl. By Friday at 9 a.m. the level was at 926.91 msl.
Lake Nocona at 3 p.m. Thursday was at 835.14 msl, which was 7.1 feet above its Monday level of 828.04 msl. By 9 a.m. Friday the level dropped to 830.69 msl.
While there were multiple water rescues and accidents during the storm, the most serious occurred at Eldorado and Patterson Streets, where some children were playing outside. A nine-year-old Bowie boy was saved from drowning after he was swept into a storm drain. Read the full story of this rescue and other storm damage in the Saturday News.
Pictured: The Meghan and Colt Langford home in the Nocona Hills area of Lake Nocona was flooded Wednesday when nearly 13 inches of rain fell across Nocona. See more storm damage photos in the Saturday News. (Photo by Meghan Langford)
Runoff from the ongoing spring rains are bringing great benefits for Montague County lakes as they continue to slowly rise.
Lake levels
Amon G. Carter
May 7 – 100% full,
920.86 msl
April 30 – 100% full,
920.68 msl
Lake is full at 920 msl
Lake Nocona
May 7 – 83.7% full,
824.79 msl
April 30 – 73.1% full,
822.91 msl
Lake full at 827.5 msl
Members of the Montague County Commissioner’s Court face a lengthy agenda when they meet at 9 a.m. on May 13.
An executive session is listed for deliberation on pending litigation. The court also will begin the preliminaries of budget planning with a workshop.
The court will review an engagement letter with Edgin, Parkman, Fleming and Fleming to conduct the annual outside audit.
The sheriff’s office staff will submit several items lead by a request to purchase a radio console for dispatch, along with a memo of understanding between Flock Safety and the SO and an application for participation with the Law Enforcement Support Office.
Commissioners will finally close out the Federal Emergency Management Agency project 4223 for county flood damage during the spring of 2015.
Read the full story on all the agenda topics in the mid-week Bowie News.
By BARBARA GREEN
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Bowie Independent School District trustees said they wanted a mandate one way or another in regard to the $65.8 million bond proposal, which was one of multiple reasons it went back on the ballot.
While voter turnout out was smaller than the Nov. 7, 2023 election, the mandate was clear as 73.28% of voters said no to the bond. Trustees had hoped a massive education campaign and a single issue election would boost voter turnout, however, that was not the case.
BISD asked voters to reconsider the same $65.8 million proposal that failed 855-1,079 last November. In that Nov. 7 election 1,934 people voted.
On May 4 there were 1,785 total voters, 149 less than in the fall. There were 477 votes supporting the bond and 1,308 saying no. The bond failed by 831 votes with only 26.72% saying yes.
Forestburg ISD asked voters to consider a pair of infrastructure centered bonds and the results were close. The most recent bond election for FISD was in 2018 and it failed 301-195.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
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