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Chapter 2 Regional Summaries - Texas Water Development Board

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SELECT MAJOR WATER MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES<br />

• Roberts County Well Field (City of Amarillo) would provide up to 22,420 acre-feet per year of groundwater<br />

in the year 2060 with a capital cost of $287 million.<br />

• Roberts County Well Field (Canadian River Municipal <strong>Water</strong> Authority) would provide 15,000 acre-feet per<br />

year of groundwater starting in 2030 with a capital cost of $22 million.<br />

• Potter County Well Field would provide up to 11,182 acre-feet per year of groundwater starting in 2020 with<br />

a capital cost of $129 million.<br />

• Irrigation conservation would provide up to 552,385 acre-feet per year of water in 2060 with no capital cost.<br />

REGION-SPECIFIC STUDIES<br />

The <strong>Regional</strong> <strong>Water</strong> Planning Group developed one region-specific study during the initial phase of the third<br />

planning cycle. The final report documenting the findings can be found on the TWDB Web site at https://www.<br />

twdb.state.tx.us/wrpi/rwp/rwp_study.asp#a.<br />

• Ogallala Recharge Study – Groundwater Recharge in Central High Plains of <strong>Texas</strong>: Roberts and Hemphill<br />

Counties<br />

PANHANDLE PLANNING GROUP MEMBERS AND INTERESTS REPRESENTED<br />

Voting members during adoption of the 2011 <strong>Regional</strong> <strong>Water</strong> Plan:<br />

C. E. Williams (Chair), water districts; Emmett Autry, municipalities; Tom Bailiff, water districts; Joe Baumgardner,<br />

agriculture; Cole Camp, environmental; Nolan Clark, environmental; Vernon Cook, county; Charles Cooke, water<br />

utilities; Jim Derington, river authorities; Rusty Gilmore, small business; Janet Guthrie, public; Bill Hallerberg,<br />

industries; Kendall Harris, agriculture; Gale Henslee, electric generating utilities; Denise Jett, industries; David<br />

Landis, municipalities; Grady Skaggs, environmental; John M. Sweeten, higher education; Janet Tregellas,<br />

agriculture; Steve Walthour, water districts; Ben Weinheimer, agriculture; John C. Williams, water districts<br />

Former voting members during the 2006 – 2011 planning cycle:<br />

Richard Bowers, water districts; Dan Coffey, municipalities; B.A. Donelson, agriculture; Bobbie Kidd, water<br />

districts; Inge Brady Rapstine, environmental; Rudie Tate, agriculture<br />

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<strong>Chapter</strong> 2: Panhandle (A) region summary<br />

WAT E R FOR TEXAS 2012 STATE WATER PLAN

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