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Regional Cooperation and Coordination
Regional Water Planning
GMA 7
West Texas Regional Groundwater Alliance
Hickory Aquifer
Edwards-Trinity Aquifer
Ellenburger-San Saba Aquifer
Marble Falls Aquifer
Edwards-Trinity Aquifer
Ellenburger-San Saba Aquifer
Hickory Aquifer
Marble Falls Aquifer
Irrigation and Livestock
Mining, Electric Generation and Manufacturing
Muncipal and County Other
Concho
Kimble
Mason
McCulloch
Menard
Goal 1
Goal 2
Goal 3
Goal 4
Goal 5
Goal 6
Goal 7
The Hickory Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 (“District”) strives to conserve, preserve, prevent waste, protect, and recharge the underground waters of all aquifers within its legal boundaries, as far as practicable, to minimize the draw-down of the water table and the reduction of artesian pressure within the District Boundaries.
This amended plan becomes effective upon approval by the Board of Directors and remains in effect until an amended plan is approved or December 1, 2023, whichever is later. The plan may be revised at anytime, or after five years when the plan will be reviewed, revised or amended and is approved as administratively complete by the Texas Water Development Board.
At the request of area citizens, the Texas Water Development Board entered an order on December 29, 1975, delineating a subdivision of the Hickory Aquifer Underground Water Reservoir in Concho, Kimble, Llano, Mason, McCulloch, Menard and San Saba Counties. In November 1981, a petition was submitted to the Texas Water Commission calling for the creation of the Hickory Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 (District). At a hearing on June 9, 1982, before the Texas Water Commission the petition was granted and the District thus created.
The confirmation election required by
state statute was held on August 14, 1982; the District was officially
established with a 94% approval of voters in those areas of Concho, Kimble, Mason, McCulloch, Menard
and San Saba within the District boundaries.
On August 12,
1999 the petition of creation was amended by the TNRCC (now Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality) to include all aquifers within the legal boundaries and
management jurisdiction of the District.
On January 11, 2003, landowners of
Mason County petitioned the District to annex the remainder of Mason County not
currently in the District, and on May 03, 2003, in a special election held at
the Mason County Courthouse the remainder of Mason County was annexed into the
District with approval of 88% of the voters.
Regional
Cooperation and Coordination
Regional
Water Planning Groups
In 1998 the District was apportioned
into two Regional Water Planning Groups established pursuant to § 16.053 of the
Texas Water Code Concho,
Kimble, Mason, McCulloch and Menard are located in Region F and San Saba County is in the Lower Colorado
Regional Water Planning Group (Region K). The District’s Regional planning
responsibilities are within a 46-county area, stretching from Matagorda Bay to
the Pecos River in West Texas.
Groundwater
Management Area 7
In 2003 the Texas Water Development
Board designated the boundaries of 16 groundwater management areas in Texas.
The District lies entirely within Groundwater Management Area 7, which
encompasses 34 counties and 20 groundwater conservation districts within an
area of approximately 42,000 square miles. The groundwater management area was
designated for the Edwards-Trinity aquifer, but also includes all or portions
of the minor Lipan-Kickapoo, Hickory, Ellenburger-San Saba, and Dockum aquifers, as well as a small portion of the Ogallala
aquifer,
The District participates in the
mandatory joint planning process mandated by 36.108 of the Texas Water Code and
is actively working with the other 19 GMA 7districts to develop Desired Future
Conditions for the Edwards-Trinity aquifer. Since the adoption of the most
recent Management Plan in 2014 the District has met with relevant GMA 7 districts
and worked with the Texas Water Development Board to develop a Groundwater
Availability Model to assist in establishing Desired Future Conditions and the
calculation of Managed Available Groundwater for the Hickory and
Ellenburger-San Saba aquifers.
West Texas
Regional Groundwater Alliance
The District is a member of the West
Texas Regional Groundwater Alliance. The regional alliance consists of
seventeen (17) locally created and locally funded districts that encompass
almost 8.75 million acres or 13,000 square miles of West Texas. This West Texas
region is as diverse as the State of Texas, making it necessary for each member
district to develop its own unique priority management goals and rules to best
serve the needs of its constituents.
In 1988, four
(4) groundwater districts; Coke County UWCD, Glasscock GCD, Irion County WCD,
and Sterling County UWCD signed the original Cooperative Agreement. Since then
the number of groundwater conservation districts in the area has more than
quadrupled. The current member districts are:
Coke County UWCD |
Crockett County GCD |
Glasscock GCD |
Hickory UWCD |
Irion County WCD |
Lipan-Kickapoo WCD |
Plateau UWC & SD |
Santa Rita UWCD |
Sterling County UWCD |
Sutton County UWCD |
Menard County UWD |
Lone Wolf GCD |
Hill Country
UWCD
|
Jeff Davis
County UWCD
|
Middle Pecos
GCD
|