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27 RESOLUTION 1995 - 47 R A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN MARCOS, TEXAS EXPRESSING THE CITY'S POSITION ON PROPOSED STATE LEGISLATION PERTAINING TO THE PROTECTION OF THE SAN MARCOS RIVER; AND DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. RECITALS . 1. The Texas Rivers Protection Association has advised the City of its intent to introduce a bill in the 74th Texas Legislature pertaining to the protection of the San Marcos River. 2. As a city government, we regard our duty to serve as stewards of the san Marcos River as one of our most important responsibilf~ies. 3. The San Marcos River flows from the heart of the City at San Marcos springs, the second largest springs in Texas and a source of the base flow of the Guadalupe River. 4. The springs and river provide a complex biological habitat, including several endangered species, and offer a pristine beauty and water quality unparalleled in our state. ~ 5. The City has taken many actions to preserve the San Marcos River by enacting ordinances which limit development along the river and its tributaries and protect the river from erosion and contaminated run-off, including the San Marcos River Corridor Ordinance, the Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance, the Drainage and Erosion Control Ordinance, the Industrial Waste Ordinance, and the Landscape and Buffering Ordinance, together with ordinances pertaining to the Edwards Aquifer, including the Edwards Aquifer Protection Ordinance and a stringent Water Conservation Plan in order to protect springflow, and therefore the River. 6. The two-plus miles of the river headwater segment which wind through our City are bordered by public and private parks, from Spring Lake at Aquarena Springs Resort to the University-owned Sewell Park to 150 acres of city-owned parks, and private and state-owned parkland on the east side of Interstate Highway 35. 7. The San Marcos River may be the most studied and' protected river in Texas, with the City, Southwest Texas State University, the Upper San Marcos Watershed District, Texas Parks and wildlife Department, the U.S. Fish and wildlife Service, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Soil Conservation Service, the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, the Texas Water Development Board, the Texas Department of Health, the Guadalupe Blanco River Authority, the Edwards Underground Water District, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency all monitoring and assessing the quality of the river on a continuing basis. 8. As the immediate custodian of the upper reaches of the San Marcos River, the City has undertaken a number of projects to improve river quality, including acquiring and maintaining parkland along the river, an $8.5 million investment to convert to surface water for our municipal water supply to reduce our dependence on the aquifer, and the completion of a Wastewater Master Plan that includes recommendations for an investment of approximately $28 million in wastewater treatment plant and collection system improvements. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN MARCOS, TEXAS: PART 1. That, subject to the deletion of Section 36.006(c) from the bill, the City of San Marcos supports the attached legislation pertaining to the protection of the San Marcos River.