The Bastrop Advertiser and County News (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 135, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 26, 1988 Page: 13 of 46
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Thursday, May 26, 1988
THE BASTROP ADVERTISER AND COUNTY NEWS
Section I, Page 13
County won't help on bridge
County commissioners said
thanks but no thanks Monday to the
City ot Bastrop, declining to share
the cost of a new bridge over Gills
Branch at Farm Street.
Previously the county and city
have split the local cost of bridges
replaced by the state on North
Main at Piney Creek and Gills
Branch south of Texas Highway
71.
The local share is 20 percent of
project costs.
Commissioners were glad to get
a $9,000 refund Monday from the
city for the previous Gills Branch
bridge. The contract price for that
bridge was below pre-construction
estimates.
The estimated local share of the
bridge on Farm Street, slated for
replacement later this year, is
$19,400. The county's share would
have been $9,700.
Bastrop city officials invited the
county to split the cost since the
bridge links the Precinct 1 county
barn and warehouse with Texas
Highway 95.
"I just can't see it," said
Precinct 4 Commissioner Jim V.
Mogonye.
"I tend to go along with Jim,"
said Precinct 3 Commissioner Jerry
Alexander. "It's the same as if
Smithville asked the county to help
redo railroad crossings" in the city
limits.
The bridges on which the county
has shared costs span waterways
which also mark city limits so that
one end of the bridge is in the city
and the other end is in the county.
"We don't need to participate,"
said Precinct 1 Commissioner T.
J. Adams. "Precinct 1 does use the
(Farm Street) bridge, but there are
other routes."
Besides, he added, "Bastrop
County should relocate the
(Precinct 1 storage) yard outside
the city limits."
Septic tank rule enforcement eyed
Enforcement of septic tank regu-
lations in Tahitian Village subdi-
vision has been uneven in the past
because some builders mis-
represented their intentions to
county officials, according to
county Sanitation Officer Bill
Barton.
Barton was quizzed Monday by
county commissioners about en-
forcement complaints from the Ta-
hitian Village Architectural Control
Committee, a local property own-
ers group which must consent to
new construction plans.
The committee charged that
some new houses have been ex-
empt from a county rule requiring
two lots for new septic tank and
drain field systems but other
builders are required to meet the
rule before winning a septic tank
permit.
Barton's office must issue per-
mits for new septic tank con-
struction.
The two-lot rule was adopted in
February 1986.
Barton told commissioners his
policy has been to allow septic
tanks for houses if the owner
bought the property before the two-
lot rule was adopted.
But builders of "spec houses,"
or residences built on the specula-
tion a buyer can be found, have
been held to the two-lot rule, he
said.
In some cases builders were
granted septic tank permits for cus-
tom homes—houses built under
contract to specific buyers—when
in fact the builder was putting up
a "spec house," Barton said.
The two-lot rule was adopted be-
cause thick clay soils on much of
the subdivision do not absorb sep-
tic tank wastewater well, meaning
a larger drain field is needed that
many subdivision lots would allow.
"Many single lots have been
sold and houses built with septic
(tank) approval" since 1986, the
Tahitian Village committee wrote
county officials May 9. "This is
a problem that requires an immedi-
ate solution due to the possibility
of numerous law suits against area
realtors, title companies and the
county," the group said.
Barton told commissioners he
will review current policy for ways
to avoid future problems.
Suicide ruled near Elgin
The death of a 38-year-old man
found hanging from a cotton rope
in the workshop of his Elgin area
residence Sunday has been ruled a
suicide.
Billy Jim Hanover, an employee
of the Texas Animal Health Com-
mission, was pronounced dead
shortly after 10 a.m. Sunday by
Precinct 4 Bastrop County Justice
of the Peace Tommy Moseley.
According to a report by the Bas-
trop County Sheriff s Department
Hanover died sometime between
9:10 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. His body
was discovered by his wife in the
workshop of their Pleasant Grove
residence.
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McAuley, Davis. The Bastrop Advertiser and County News (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 135, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 26, 1988, newspaper, May 26, 1988; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth391003/m1/13/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.