HomeMy WebLinkAbout03044 ORD - 05/22/1951AN ORDINANCE
AUTHORI71N0 AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER AND
TIE CITY ATTORNEY OF TIE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI '
FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
TO MARE APPLICATION TO THE BOARD OF WATER ENGINEERS
OF TIE STATE OF TEXAS FOR PERMIT TO APPROPRIATE
THE WATERS DISCHARGED FROM WELLS OF THE LONER NUECES
RISER WATER SUPPLY DISTRICT INTO TRIBUTARIES OF THE
NUECES RISER FOR ACCOUNT OF TIE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI AND TO USE THE BED AND BANKS OF SUCH STREAMS
FOR THE PURPOSE OF TRANSPORTING AND D=VERING SAID
WATER INTO TIE RESERVOIR OF TEE CITY CREATED BY
MATHIS DAM, SUCH APPLICATION TO HE IN THE FORM
ATTACHED HERETO AND MADE A PART HEREOF; AND DE-
CLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY TIE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEAS:
SECTION 1, That the City manager and the City Attorney
of the City of Corpus Christi for and on behalf of the City of
Corpus Christi be, and they are hereby authorized and directed
to make application to the Board of Water Engineers of the State
of Texas for permit to appropriate the waters discharged from wells
of the Lower Nueces River Water Supply District into tributaries
of the Nueces River for account of the City of Corpus Christi and
to use the bed and banks of such streams for the purpose of trans-
porting and delivering said water into the reservoir of the City
created by Matins Dam, such application to be in the form attach-
ed hereto and made a part hereof; and _'
SECTION 2. That the necessity cfmaking the aforesaid
application in order to assure the delivery of water to the City
of Corpus Christi from the wells of said Lower Nueces River Water
Supply District, being of the greatest public importance to the
health,safety, and general welfare of the General Public, creates
a public emergency and an imperative public necessity requiring
the auspension of the Charter rule that no ordinance or resolution
shall be passed finally on the date of its introduction and that
such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three several meet-
ings of the City Council, and the Mayor, having declared such em-
ergency and necessity to exist, having requested the suspension
ice'.+ sue'
of said Charter rule and that this ordinance be passed finally
on the date of its introduction and take effect and be in fall
force and effect from and after its passage$ IT IS ACCORDINGLY
SO ORDAD:ED.
PASSED AND APPROVEDo This the 2--%/ day of May. 1951.
MAYOR
/�TZ' STs CITY OF CORPUS CHRISPI, MIA
';Iv Secretary '
APPROVED AS TO 'GAL FORK: -
AttornG7
Corpus Christi, Texas
TO THE ME1MERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas -
Gentlemen: -
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the fore-
going ordinance, a public emergency and imperative necessity exist for
the suspension of the- Charter rule or requirement that no ordinance or
resolution shall be passed finally on the date it is introduced, and
that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at.three meetings of the
City Council; I, therefore, hereby request that you suspend said Charter
rule or requirement and pass this ordinance finally on the date it is
introduced, or at the present meeting of the City Council.
Respectfully,
MAYOR
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following votes
+ Leslie Wasserman T
Jack DeForrest
± Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman Q,y�
The above ordinance was passed by the following votes
Leslie 6asserman 4
Jack 17eForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman —��
TEE STATE OF TEXAS p
COUNTY OF NUDGES
TO THE BOARD OF WATER EM31 RS FOR THE STATE OF TEXAS:
The CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, a Home Rule city and municipal
corporation organized under the Home Rule Amendment to the Constitution and
the enabling statutes thereunder of the State of Texas, acting by and through
its City Manager, and , its
City Attorney, whose post office address is Municipal Building, Corpus Christi,
Texas, being hereunto duly authorized by the governing body of said city,
makes this application to appropriate and divert not exceeding acre -
feet of water per annum delivered into the Atascosa River, a tributary of the
Nueces River, from wells adjacent to the Atascbsa River and Borregos River,
a tributary thereof, by LQ•ICR NUECES RIVER WATER SUPPLY DISTRICT, a munici-
pal corporation with all the powers of a Water Supply and Control District,
which District was duly created by Act of the Legislature of the State of
Texas (Acts 51st Legislature, Ch. 159), under contract between applicant and
said District dated November 16, 1950, a copy of which is filed herewith; and
to use the bed and banks of the above -named streams for the purpose of trans-
porting and delivering said water into the reservoir of the City created by
the Mathis Dam. Applicant has the right to take and appropriate in excess
of 500,000 acre -feet of water per annum from said source of supply by virtue
of certified filing No. 64 filed with this Board on April 221 1914 and Permit
No. 51 issued February 19, 1915, Permit No. 933 dated October 31, 19271 as
amended by Permit No. 1463 dated August 19, 1945, and Permit No. 1177 dated
October 20, 1931, and has perfected its right of appropriation under said
permits and by means of the impounding and diversion works therein described
for the purpose of domestic and municipal, manufacturing, mining, recreation
and irrigation purposes. The purpose for which the water herein applied for
is to be used is domestic and municipal purposes.
The location of the proposed wells is as follows:
(Here give the location of each well by number by reference
to a line of an original survey bordering on the named stream;
also give name and address of the owners of land upon which
the proposed wells and points of discharge will be located)
The respective points of delivery will be at the points on the stream opposite
each well.
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The water will, in accordance with the terms of the aforesaid
contract, be and become the property of applicant upon delivery into the
respective water courses.
The water will be stored in the applicant's dam and diverted
therefrom by gravity to the City filtration plant, and from thence by pumping
to the City's system by means of the works described in the aforesaid Permits.
All construction work has been completed for the taking and
diversion of said water. Wells Nos. _, _, and have been com-
pleted, and Wells Noe. and will be completed within 90 days
from this date, and application of the appropriated water to the proposed use
Will be made immediately upon completion. The accompanying maps and plate
show the location of the respective wells and the location of the diversion
works are shown on the maps accompanying the applications upon uhich said Per -
wits were granted.
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
ffi
City Manager
City Attorney
SUHSCq= AIM SWORN TO before me, a Notary Public in and for
Nueces County, Texas, this _ day of May, 1951.