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Brazos River Authority updates board on Lake Whitney reallocation; approves up to $500,000 for Jones & Fortuna legal services
Summary
Staff updated directors on a Corps of Engineers study that could reallocate roughly 184,000 acre-feet of Lake Whitney storage to water supply and requested authorization to continue using Jones & Fortuna for legal strategy and potential litigation up to $500,000; the board approved the authorization.
Brad Benoit, chief operations officer, briefed the board on the Lake Whitney reallocation study July 28, describing work with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that produced a tentatively selected plan to increase Brazos River Authority storage at Lake Whitney.
Benoit said the tentatively selected plan would change the allocation of the conservation pool and lower the top of the power-head reserve, increasing the Authority—s storage in the conservation and power-head zones from about 57,000 acre-feet currently to roughly 241,000 acre-feet total (a net increase of about 184,000 acre-feet). He…
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