Water

The city plans to serve the rapidly growing southern part of the city using water from Stillhouse Hollow Reservoir.  Pushing water from the existing treatment plant on Belton Reservoir is just too expensive.

I was at Stillhouse Hollow, near the long bridge, this afternoon.  It looks great.  The thousand acres of grass-covered silt that was exposed last summer is now under a shallow but concealing layer of water. People buying homes in the south need to consider, though, whether last year represents an exception or the new norm.  Stillhouse is fed by a beautiful but fickle river that drains a semi-arid region.  That river goes dry every five years or so even in normal cycles.

I'm sure WCID-4 is on top of the forecasts (and I know they have an alternate plan to pump untreated water from Belton to Stillhouse) but I worry that they are putting too much reliance on a finicky resource.