North Texas Water Supply Strategies

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North Texas Water Supply Strategies

• North Texas Commission
• Board of Directors
• September 18, 2008

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North Texas Water Supply

• Three major providers in Metroplex
• 25 of Texas population
• 8 of water used in Texas
• 90 of supply is from surface water

Lake Bridgeport, Wise County
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Socioeconomic Impacts of an Inadequate Water
Supply

• 2060 projections
• Population reduced by one million (7)
• Employment off by 700,000 jobs (17)
• Income shrinks by 58.8 billion (21)

Lake Benbrook during 2005-06 drought
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Water Supply Strategies

• Conservation and reuse (28 of future supply)
• Oklahoma water
• Marvin Nichols Reservoir
• Toledo Bend Reservoir

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Reuse Through Wetlands

• Capture return flows in the Trinity River
• Return flows are wastewater discharges that
  originated in North Texas reservoirs
• Constant and renewable resource

Trinity River near Richland-Chambers
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Reuse Through Wetlands

• Wetlands used to naturally remove contaminants
• Water is pumped into lakes without harming water
  quality
• Innovative way to stretch water supplies

TRWD wetlands water recycling facility
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Indirect Reuse Plans in place
500,000 Acre Feet by 2060
Cedar Creek 175,000 AF
Lake Lavon 104,000 AF x 2
Lake Ray Hubbard 60,000 AF x 2
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Oklahoma Water Supply
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Oklahoma Water In Search of an Existing Supply

• 8 million acre-feet (2.5 trillion gallons) flows
  from Oklahoma into Red River in normal year
• Untapped resource

Kiamichi River, Oklahoma
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Oklahoma Water In Search of an Existing Supply

• Permit applications filed by

• Tarrant Regional WD
• Upper Trinity River WD
• North Texas Municipal WD

Kiamichi River, Oklahoma
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Oklahoma Water In Search of an Existing Supply

• Nothing directly from Oklahoma reservoirs
• Water supply will not be affected
• Environmental flows come first

Lost Lake, Oklahoma
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Oklahoma Water Permit Status

• 2004 Oklahoma extends moratorium
• 2007 TRWD lawsuit asserts moratorium violation
  of interstate commerce laws

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Oklahoma Water Permit Status

• Oct. 2007 Oklahoma lost battle to dismiss
  lawsuit
• May 2008 Appeal heard by 10th U.S. Circuit Court
  of Appeals (Case pending)

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Oklahoma Water Promising Resource

• Oklahoma has enough water to supply 21 million
  additional residents
• Trillions of gallons flowing out of state for
  free
• Provide revenue source for Oklahoma

Oklahoma City, OK, Population 540,000
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Marvin Nichols Reservoir
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Toledo Bend Supply
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