1010 RES COP IS INTERESTED IN PROJECT TO CONSTRUCT DAM ON SANDERS CREEK

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RESOLUTION NOa 1010 , WHEREAS, the City of Paris has been interested for some time in a project to construct a dam on Sanders Creek, to create Pat Mayse Lake, in Lamar County, Texas, among other things, as the future source of water supply for the City of Paris; and WHEREAS, the project was by Congress placed in the hands of the U. S. Army Engineers, for the purpose of making a survey to determine the feasibility of the creation of such dam and reservoir; and WHEREAS, the U. S. Army Engineers assigned preliminary survey and report of the feasibility of such project to the U. S. Army Engineer District, Tulsa, Corps of Engineers, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the Tulsa Office of the U. S. Army Engineers at Tulsa, assigned to Colonel Howard W. Penney the task of making such preliminary survey and report of the feasibility of said project; and WHEREAS, Colonel Howard W. Penney did assume such responsibility and cause such preliminary survey to be made, and on the lst day of November, 1961 completed his report of the feasibility of said project to the Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army, Washington, D. C. ; and WHEREAS, the City of Paris has examined such report and has noted the quality of same; and WHEREAS, the City of Paris is highly grateful to Colonel Howard W. Penney for the efficient, correct, and thorough manner in which such survey and report was made, the fact that such report promptly cleared the Division Engineer U. S. Army Engineer Division, Southwestern Dallas, Texas and the same promptly cleared the office of the Chief of Engineers Department of the Army Wa shington, D. C. and thereafter the feasibility of the project contained in such report was presented to the Texas Water Commission by which Commission it was promptly approved as being a feasible project, and thereafter promptly approved by the Governor of Texas and returned to the Congress of the United States; and