Res 228 12/8/1952I•i� i _ i i
I*.EA.S, the Bureau of Reclamation of the Department
of the Interior is conducting surveys and investigations
of the Little Wichita River Basin in Texas with a view of
determining the beneficial use potentialities of the waters
of that Basin for industrial, domestic, municipal and other
beneficial uses;
WHEREAS, such inves- vigations include the development
of storage at the Scotland reservoir site which is access-
ible to the City of Wichita Falls, and such storage will be
available for municipal and industrial use in the City of
Wichita Falls; and,
WHEREAS, the City of Wichita Falls due to its rapid growth
in population and its potential future growth, will be in
need of additional water supply, for domestic and municipal
purposes; anal,
WHEREAS, the City of Wichita Falls is desirous of taking
every possible action to insure or substantiate any priorities
available to it for water rights on the Little Wichita River;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Bureau of Recla-
mation be urged to include in its studies and investigations,
use of storage in such reservoir together with other necessary
facilities, other than treatment plant and city distribution
works, for the provision of water supply for municipal and
industrial use in the City of Wichita Falls with a view, on
the completion of such surveys and investigations project
authorization, and in the event such project is authorized or
approved, to :initiate negotiations between the United States
and the City of Wichita Falls in pursuance of the federal
reclamation law, of a contract for participation in the cons
struction of a project in the Little Wichita Basin to provide
for storage, release and use of waters in the Little Wichita
River for industrial and municipal use of water for the City
of Wichita Falls,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a certified copy of this
resolution be supplied to the Secretary of the Interior.
Passed, approved and adopted at a regular adjeurned
meeting of the Board of Aldermen of the City of Wichi
Falls, Texas this 8th day of December, 1952.
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Memorial Auditorium Building
Dec"er 8., 1952
The Board of Aldermen of the City of Wichita Falls,$ Texas., met in regular
session on the above date, in the Council Room of.the Memorial Auditorium Building.,
at 7 -30 o #clock P.M.s with the foll:otiing members presents
A.
Mandel Faulk
R. P. Willis
Lloyd Thomas
Dr. E. Aubrey Cox
J Paul Montgomery
f }eo a T • HenC ere ona
Bin N. Taylor
J. Walter Friberg
Mayor
Aldermen
City Clerk
City Manager
City Attorney'
Among other proceedings,, the following was hads
Moved by Alderman Montgomery that Resolution. No. 228 be approved and
passed as read.
Motion seconded by .Alderman Willis and carried by the following votes
Teas: Aldermen Willis., Thomas., Cox and Montgomery*
Nays: done.
S TATE OF TEAS
COMM OF WICHITA.
I9,Geo. T. Henderson.* City Clerk of the City of Wichita Falls y Texas'
hereby certify.that the'above. and foregoing is a true and correct copy of
Excerpt from the .Xi-autes of the meeting of the Board of Aldermen of the City of
Wichita Falls., Texas., held on Deceffber 8.1 1952, as of record on Page No, 234,
Mi ute' Book No„ ' 15., of the Czty of Wichita Falls ,p Texas' and that the attached
is a true and correct copy of Resolution No. 228, passed and approved by the
Board of Aldermen,
Wiliness my hand and seal of the City of Wichita lsi Texas' this
9th day of December. 1.952.
, Tex