1719 RES UNDER AUTHORITY OF WATERSHED PROTECTION AND FLOOD PREVENTION ACT AS AMENDEDRESOLUTION 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,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
PARIS, That it does hereby agree in principle to the installation of
the concrete pipe principal spillway subject to the approval of design
and locat.ion of the spillway in the existing Lake Crook Dam.
Passed and adopted this lOth day of November, 1975.
es M. Brunette, Mayor
A TTEST:
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H. C. G eene, City Clerk
APP OVE TO FORM:
T. K, aynes, ity Attorney