YFZ Ranch Officials Want to Drill for Water
 
The Eldorado Success
 
YFZ Ranch officials are apparently interested in drilling at least one additional water well on ranch property, some four miles north of Eldorado.

Cindy Cawley, General Manager of the Plateau Underground Water Conservation and Supply District says that she was contacted by Paul Allred regarding the need to drill for water on the ranch. Cawley, who was at a meeting in Austin when she received Allred’s call, made arrangements for assistant manager Virgil Polocek to visit the ranch.

Cawley notes that while Polocek was given access to a water well near the ranch entrance, he was denied access to a second well on the north side of the ranch property.

Cawley said she eventually met with Paul Allred and explained the steps involved in drilling a water well in Schleicher County. She also outlined the state regulations that are involved.

Cawley then expressed concern about alleged environmental violations on the ranch property, as reported by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and informed Mr. Allred that water district personnel have the right under state law to inspect any and all water wells on the property.

Allred reportedly told her that he did not have the authority to grant her access to the ranch.

Meanwhile, a TCEQ spokesman reports that alleged air and wastewater violations on the YFZ remains a priority for the agency and that an investigation into those violations is ongoing.
 
MyEldorado.net
Originally published June 24, 2004
 
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