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From the Ranch Manager, John Sellers: Beginning Friday, September 1, 2023, there will be new guidelines regarding the purchase of water by POATRI member property owners. These guidelines are as follows: Sales will be recorded by property owner account numbers. This has always been the basis for eligibility to purchase water, but many people failed …
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The POATRI Board of Directors finalized the new procedures and account limits at the July board meeting. New lower monthly limits on water sales is our strategy to protect our struggling non potable wells. New forms will insure accurate record keeping and rapid communication concerning additional changes. Those having others haul their water will need …
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The Board of Directors having reviewed our non potable well’s health, the consequences of increased demand for water from property owners to that health, our costs of delivery, and the monthly allotment per account, we will be increasing the price per gallon and reducing the monthly allotment per account. Property owners semi monthly allotment will …
June 19, 2023 John Sellers is our new manager. Please stop by the office and introduce yourself. John is a property owner and has been roaming around here for the last 47 years.
The Water Committee is looking to update our listings of local suppliers and contractors of catchment structures, water tanks, fittings pumps, filters, and off grid power. If you are a contractor and supplier, please provide contact information and the services you provide to l.sunderland@poatri.org.
We have received approval from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for the Jacob and Martin Engineering’s design of our Smith Well improvements. Next step will be to put together bid packages and invite contractors to bid on the work. We discussed this project yesterday in the workshop and our thinking is we will consider …
We have been working with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and our engineering firm Jacob Martin to bring our water system into compliance with current regulations. In addition we are exploring how to bring online another water source to reduce the demand on our one potable well, the Smith Well. Jacob Martin will deliver …
Property Owners Association of Terlingua Ranch, Inc. Strategic Plan – Updated 2022 1.0 Executive Summary The Property Owners Association of Terlingua Ranch, Inc. (POATRI) Strategic Plan provides a roadmap to help us make both short and long-term decisions regarding the future of Terlingua Ranch operations over the next three to five years. The Plan presents …
POATRI Water History 2009 – 2022 POATRI /Terlingua Ranch and its water supply is considered by the State to be a Transient Non-Community Public Water Supply System. Meaning we provide water to the public by various delivery systems but do not have metterd water lines delivering water to private individuals. We are bound by all …
Task Force members – Larry Sunderland, Barbara Levedahl, Ed Marcato, Vanessa Cruz, and Amy Law This quarter we have been creating a workflow and process to share information back and forth with the board and management on available grants for capital improvement projects. At the 2022 TCEQ Public Drinking Water Conference I was able to get information on over …