1719 RES UNDER AUTHORITY OF WATERSHED PROTECTION AND FLOOD PREVENTION ACT AS AMENDED

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RESOLUTION NO. 1719 , WHEREAS, under the authority of the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act (Public Law 566, 83rd Congress, 68 Stat. 666) as amended; the Lamar County Water Control and Improvement District #3 (Pine Creek) has made application to the Secretary of Agriculture for assistance in preparing a plan for works of im- provement for the Pine Creek Watershed, Lamar County, Texas; and, WHEREAS, the responsibility for administration of the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act, as amended, has been assigned by the Secretary of Agriculture to the Soil Conservation Service; and, WHEREAS, there has been developed through the cooperative efforts of the Sponsoring Local Organization (Lamar County WCID #3 - Pine Creek) and the S. C. S. , a mutually satisfactory plan for works of improvements for the P. C. W. , State of Texas; and, WHEREAS, a major portion of the mutually agreed upon works of improvements has been accomplished in the past 10 years; and, WHEREAS, certain modification or revisions of the work plan are deemed to be mutually beneficial to achieving the sponsors ob- jectives to the City of Paris and the citizens of the county and city; and, WHEREAS, recent studies and investigations have confirmed the feasibility of adding flood storage to the City's Lake Crook by installing a concrete pipe principal spillway which would lower the maximum 476. 0 permanent water level to 473. 5 mean sea level, to achieve flood storage; and, WHEREAS, under Publ.ic Law 566, the Soil Conservation Service agrees to install said concrete spillway at no expense to the city when the work plan revision is completed and approved by the State Conservation.ist, and detail plans and contract specifications are completed and acceptable to the city engineers and the City Council; and, WHEREAS, the Lamar Co. W. C. I. D. Board of Directors agree to release waters from flood detention structures above Lake Crook .in case of an emergency water shortage; and, WHEREAS, the modificat.ion of Lake Crook by installation of said concrete spillway would facilitate down stream channel im - provements beneficial to the city sewage disposal lines and outflow channel at no expense to the city; and, WHEREAS, the Soil Conservation Service would vegetate to control erosion, areas denuded by the lower.ing of the permanent water level to elevation 473. 5; and, WHEREAS, the W. C. I. D. #3 would participate in the main- tenance and operations of the prepared spillway if requested by the City; NOW, THEREFORE,