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Consultant Jason Jones outlines three-pronged plan to strengthen Lampasas water supply
Summary
Consultant Jason Jones told Lampasas City Council that the city should pursue a three-legged strategy — upgrade the Stillhouse Hollow supply, develop local supplemental sources (creek intake, storage, groundwater wells) and pursue financing — and consider a regional authority to govern transmission and capital investment.
Jason Jones, the consultant who led a multi-month study of Lampasas-area water supplies, told the council on March 23 that the city faces structural vulnerabilities exposed in 2023 and should pursue a three-part approach to avoid future service interruptions. “I can assure you I’m not the only one that takes these things seriously,” Jones said as he summarized field measurements, historical context and options for building resilience.
Jones described how Lampasas historically relied on springs and Sulfur Creek, then shifted to supplies from Stillhouse Hollow Lake and a 1980s-era regional transmission network. He said the city’s surface-water rights include an unusually early priority date (1914) that matters during droughts and that lake and intake vulnerabilities in 2023 combined with maintenance and water-quality events to cause rationing and plant outages.
The study’s central recommendation is a diversified, “three-legged stool” strategy: maintain and…
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