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Cit~ of Paris Stud~ of Lake Crook March, 2001 The city land on the north shore is heavily wooded with underbrush. Further north, above the city property, are scattered farm and ranch land and sparsely developed subdivisions with scattered dwellings. The east side of Lake Crook is where the dam and spillway are located and a large portion of the land between the dam and U.S. Highway 271 is flood plain and undevelopable. With the exception of the city's property west of Caviness Road, all the city property surrounding Lake Crook is annexed into the City of Paris. 2.1.3 City Utilities. At the south end of the dam is situated the City of Paris 36.0 MGD Water Treatment Plant which pumps water through three large diameter water mains all the way into ground storage tanks in the northwest side of Paris. From these storage tanks, booster pumps lift the water into towers for general distribution. To use water fxom the plant would require construction of ground storage and booster facilities and possibly even a new elevated storage tank since the lines between the plant and the ground storage tanks are not pressurized at all times. To the northeast of Lake Crook, about ½ mile east across U.S. 271 and north about two miles bom Pine Creek is the City of Paris Wastewater Treatment Plant. Any sewerage systems on Lake Crook would have to flow east with Pine Creek until it intercepted sewage trunk mains running roughly parallel to U.S. 271. Because of the confluence of several small drainage sub-basins into the north shoreline of Lake Crook, any sewer system development along the north shore would likely have to be "lifted" by a pump station east to a point where the sewer could gravity flow to the east. As many as five lift stations could be required to serve the entire north shore. These lift stations would not serve great areas of land beyond the city owned property because there is a significant drainage divide between Lake Crook and F.M. 1499. 2.1.4 Leases on the Land. As mentioned earlier there are principally three organizations using land around Lake Crook. The Maxey Black Powder Rifle Club has a five year lease which expires on December 31, 2003. The lease encumbers approximately 34.8 acres on the northeast comer of Caviness Road and F.M. 79. The Paris Gun Club, Inc. has a lease which expires on the 31 st of December, 2005 and which encumbers 78.7 acres of land bounded on the south by F.M. 79 and on the east by Caviness Road. Figure 6 Maxey Black Powder Rifle Club gun range Page 16 of 45