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Texas Forest Service Wildfire Update: Wednesday

COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Texas Forest Service update for Wednesday, June 22:

Current situation:

• Texas Forest Service responded to no new large fires Tuesday.

• The Power Line (Jasper County, 4,197 acres), Weise (Haskell Co., 5,000 acres), Riddle (Stonewall County, 600 acres), Rockland (Tyler County, 250 acres) and the 4097 (Newton County, 410 acres) fires have been contained.

• Texas Forest Service currently is responding to 17 large fires that have burned 145,633 acres.

• 227 of the 254 Texas counties are reporting burn bans.

• Detailed fire information can be found at inciweb.org.

• Questions about evacuations, burn bans and firework bans should be directed to the county judge, sheriff’s office or emergency management coordinator.

New large fires from yesterday (more than 100 acres in timber, 300 acres in lighter fuels): None.

Uncontained fires from previous days (more than 100 acres in timber, 300 acres in lighter fuels):

WHITE HAT, Coke and Nolan Counties. 42,000 acres, 30 percent contained. Voluntary evacuations around the community of Maryneal. Heavy airtankers and single-engine airtankers dropped on this fire. This fire is burning 4 miles south of Maryneal. This fire received a FMAG.

ROCK CREEK, Stonewall County. 8,000 acres, 80 percent contained. The fire is burning seven miles northeast of Aspermont in tall grass.

JRM, Throckmorton County. 7,000 acres, 95 percent contained. This fire is a complex of four lightning fires near Throckmorton. Twelve homes are threatened.

BEARING, Polk and Trinity Counties. 20,222 acres, 40 percent contained. The fire is burning near Carmona. Two homes and six cabins were destroyed and dozens have been evacuated.

SMAC, Brooks County. 35,000 acres, 50 percent contained. Extreme fire behavior was observed again yesterday on this fire 13 miles southwest of Falfurrias.

HUDSON COMPLEX, Sterling County. 2,860 acres, 95 percent contained. The fire is burning 34 miles northwest of San Angelo.

FAULKNER, Crockett County. 2,201 acres, 95 percent contained. 900 acres, 40 percent contained. The fire is burning southwest of Big Lake.

MIDWAY (COWBOY CHURCH), Walker County. 2,412 acres, 90 percent contained. The fire is burning near Huntsville. One hundred sixty-three homes were evacuated near Midway.

Texas Two-Step: Claytie Channels Boone; Groundwater Issues in ...

Texas Two-Step: Claytie Channels Boone; Groundwater Issues in Austin

Now, on to Claytie Williams. This item appeared on 21 April 2010 in the Texas Tribune. Williams hasGMA rights to pump 47,000 acre-feet annually from beneath his Pecos County land under a permit from the Middle Pecos Groundwater Conservation District (MPGCD) which lies mostly within GMA 7 with its northern part in GMA 3.

So what’s the problem? Well, Williams’ water is to be used for irrigation, and he wants to sell it to cities such as Midland more than 100 miles away from his land holdings. So he needs a waiver from the MPGCD. His request may come before the board as early as May 2010.

Not everyone is enthused about Williams’ desire to sell the groundwater. From reporter Julian Aguilar’s story:

The citizens of Fort Stockton, says Mayor Ruben Falcon, “feel that the future water supply is threatened by having a large amount of water transferred out of the aquifer.” Others believe allowing Williams’ transfer would set a dangerous precedent for all communities in the Rio Grande-Rio Bravo Watershed, which supplies Laredo and the entire Rio Grande Valley.

“There is going to be a whole set of dominoes where people are going to be extracting or attempting to extract water from the watershed … at the risk of the Rio Grande Community,” said Jay J. Johnson Castro, the executive director of the Rio Grande International Study Center in Laredo. The center and the City of Fort Stockton entered into a joint resolution seeking a moratorium to prevent the transfer of the water.

The 11-member conservation district could decide the issue as soon as May, though contested hearings may push the decision into the fall. The clash underscores the increasing scarcity of water in Texas — and the resulting standoffs between profit seekers looking to mine and sell the water and the municipalities trying cling to their rights to local supplies. In the balance hangs the health of the Rio Grande, which is already included on the World Wildlife’s list of most endangered rivers in North America, Castro said. Williams’ attempted removal of the water could harm the rivers that eventually drain into the Rio Grande, which in prior years has failed to make it the Gulf of Mexico due to low water levels.

Williams wants to draw more than 47,000 acre-feet of water annually from the watershed. An acre–foot is about 325,820 gallons, potentially bringing Fort Stockton Holding’s haul to exceed more than 15,449,780 gallons annually and total more than 463 trillion gallons over the life of the 30-year permit.

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