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Fox Crossing Water District
Achievement of Management Plan Objectives
Objective Achieved? Auditor's Comment
Management Goal 5.0
Address natural resource issues which impact the use and availability of groundwater and which are impacted by the
use of groundwater in the District.
Objective 5.1 No The District believes that landowners are
Annually the District will cause at least one already educated on brush control and has not
article to be published in the Goldthwaite published an article in the local newspaper.
Eagle addressing the importance of
reducing brush cover to increase
groundwater recharge.
Objective 5.2 Yes The District has worked in conjunction with state
Encourage the contraction of in-channel and national officials to have a water study
dams on the smaller creeks, draws, and performed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
streams in the District plus rivers of major size. The results of this study should indicate the best
site to build a dam.
Section 1-D:
Real-Edwards County Conservation and Reclamation Water
District Is Not Operational
Real-Edwards County Conservation and Reclamation Water District (District) did not
achieve any of the five audited objectives in its management plan. Therefore, the
District is not operational. Among the objectives the District did not achieve were
objectives to work with interested parties on aquifer storage and recovery projects,
and to issue well construction permits. The District re-established itself under a newly
appointed board in January 2000 and has stated that it plans to become active in
managing groundwater.
Table 5 provides additional details on each of the audited objectives.
Table 5
Real-Edwards County Conservation and Reclamation Water District
Achievement of Management Plan Objectives
Objective Achieved? Auditor's Comment
Management Goal 1.0
To control and prevent the waste of groundwater.Objective 1.01
Provide education materials to
newspapers and general public on at
least 6 occasions concerning
prohibited waste.No The District did not provide education materials on
prohibited groundwater waste to newspapers or the
general public.AN AUDIT REPORT ON
GROUNDWATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS - PHASE 2PAGE 8
OCTOBER 2001
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