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Upper Trinity Regional Water District presents Greenbelt Plan to Argyle council, offers draft resolution
Summary
Upper Trinity Regional Water District urged Argyle to adopt goals from the Denton County Greenbelt Plan to protect watershed areas and drinking-water sources; staff provided a model, voluntary resolution and noted recommended strategies such as riparian buffers and conservation easements.
Blake Aldridge, representing the Upper Trinity Regional Water District, presented the Denton County Greenbelt Plan and a companion conservation trust program and asked the council to consider adopting a resolution supporting the plan's voluntary goals.
Aldridge said the district now serves about 460,000 people in Denton and Collin counties and that protecting creek corridors, floodplains and riparian areas reduces water-treatment costs and preserves reservoir capacity. "Our latest estimates were now serving drinking water to 460,000 people here in Denton and Collin Counties," Aldridge said. He described conservation easements held by…
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