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<br />51 <br /> <br />RESOLUTION 1982-59R <br /> <br />STATE OF TEXAS <br />COUNTY OF HAYS <br />CITY OF SAN MARCOS <br /> <br />A RESOLUTION BY THE CITY OF SAN MARCOS, TEXAS SUPPORTING EDWARDS UNDERGROUND <br />WATER DISTRICT ACTION. <br /> <br />WHEREAS, more than a million people rely on the Edwards Aquifer as their sole source <br />of drinking water coupled with other municipal and industrial uses as well as agri- <br />cultural and recreational uses; and <br />WHEREAS, the Edwards Reservoir extends from Bracketville in Kinney County through <br />Uvalde, Medina, Bexar, Comal and to Kyle in Hays County, a district of one hundred <br />eighty (180) miles and is from five (5) to forty (40) miles wide; and <br />WHEREAS, the average annual recharge from 1934 to 1980 has been 595,000 acre feet; <br />and <br />WHEREAS, annual well discharge for 1980 was 491,000 acre feet from the Edwards <br />Aquifer with continued growing demands to equal the average annual recharge in <br />the near future; and <br />WHEREAS, projected withdrawals from pumping by the year 2020 are estimated to be <br />777,000 acre feet annually, with is 200,000 acre feet in excess of average annual <br />recharge; and <br />WHEREAS, the need for surface water to supplement the use of Edwards Water to <br />maintain a safe yield level of operation, maintaining San Marcos Springs flow as well <br />as Comal and occasionally San Antonio and San Pedro Springs to preclude encroach- <br />ment of bad water into the good water zone; and <br />WHEREAS, no single city or county should take it upon itself to be responsible for <br />a safe yield level of operation of the Edwards Aquifer and expect the financial <br />burden to be free of political pressure or expect favors from the benefactors <br />because of its burden; and <br />NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY OF SAN MARCOS: in a meeting of the City <br />Council, duly convened and acting in its capacity as governing body of San Marcos, <br />Texas that the Edwards Underground Water District be utilized to establish a <br />regional water authority to develop a surface water supplement program to be able <br />to maintain a safe yield level of operation of the Edwards Reservoir; and <br />