The Post Oak Savannah Groundwater Conservation District (POSGCD) has scheduled three town hall meetings—one in Rock-dale—to introduce landowners to a program it says is designed to protect and preserve aquifers.
Meetings on the POSGCD Aquifer Conservancy Program (PACP) are set for the following times and locations:
• June 21, Caldwell Civic Center, 6 to 9 p.m.
• June 28, Patterson Civic Center. Rockdale, 6 to 9 p.m.
• July 10, POSGCD Office, Milano, 5:30 to 9 p.m.
‘STEWARDSHIP’’—
According to the district, owners would commit their groundwater resources into a “strictly voluntary” long-term conservation program and would be paid for their “stewardship efforts.”
The POSGCD said exact amounts are still to be determined but preliminary estimates are $5 to $6 per acre, per year, with bonuses for longer terms.
It is for land owners in Milam and Burleson Counties. That’s the area the POSGCD covers.
The water district urged “any landowner in Milam and Burleson Counties interested in conserving the water in the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer” to attend.
The PACP program calls for landowners to be paid for each acre at the end of every year they are enrolled in the program.
It terms the effort “a volunteer stewardship program for landowners to protect the aquifers in Milam and Burleson Counties by placing their groundwater reserves into a legacy conservation program.”
The program is to be funded with fees collected by the district and payments are to be disbursed annually, according to the district.
The POSGCD says landowners will still maintain full ownership and control of their private property and “can still drill or maintain an exempt well for domestic and livestock uses.”
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