James M' Oliver, General Manager

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James M. Oliver, General Manager Tarrant Regional
Water District Red River Valley
Association November 15, 2007
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Tarrant Regional Water District

• Created in 1924 as a political subdivision of
• State of Texas
• Approximately 190 employees
• Facilities located in eight North Central Texas
• counties
• Two primary missions
• Water supply
• Flood Control

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TRWD Water Supply

• District provides only raw, untreated
• water.
• Primary wholesale customers are
• Arlington, Fort Worth, Mansfield and
• Trinity River Authority.
• Ultimately serves 66 cities in an 11-county
• service area.
• (Denton, Ellis, Freestone, Henderson, Jack,
  Johnson,
• Kaufman, Navarro, Parker, Tarrant, Wise)
• Current service population is 1.7 million
• projected to increase to 4.3 million by 2060.

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State Water Planning

• Mandated by Senate Bill 1 in 1997 to address
  Texas water issues
• Planning directed by the Texas Water Development
  Board
• 16 regional water planning groups

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State Water Planning

• Three primary DFW Metroplex raw water providers
• Tarrant Regional Water District
• City of Dallas
• North Texas Municipal Water District
• Scope and cost of future water supply projects
  requires a regional approach.

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Why is TRWD seeking additional supplies?

• TRWD permitted supplies are 586,300 acre-feet.
• 2006 demands were approximately 400,000 acre-
  feet.
• Projected demands will be 900,000 acre-feet by
  2060.
• The Region C Supply Plan calls for TRWD to
  develop 430,000 acre-feet of new water supply by
  2060.
• One source of additional water supply is
  Oklahoma.

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Oklahoma Water History

• In 2001, a consortium of North Texas water
  providers approached the State of Oklahoma and
  the Indian tribes to purchase water.
• Oklahomas response to Texas water needs was to
  enact a moratorium on out-of-state water
  transfers.
• Unlike Texas in Senate Bill 1, Oklahoma has not
  created a state-wide water plan to determine its
  needs.
• Oklahoma is just beginning that process.

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Lawsuit issues

• In January 2007, TRWD filed a federal lawsuit
  contending the Oklahoma moratorium violates
  federal interstate commerce law.
• After the suit was filed, TRWD then filed permit
  applications with the Oklahoma Water Resources
  Board for water in southern Oklahoma.
• Oklahoma filed a motion to dismiss TRWDs
  lawsuit. On October 29, a federal judge ruled in
  favor of TRWD on all issues.
• TRWD would prefer to negotiate a contractual
  purchase of Oklahomas excess water and continues
  those negotiations as a preferred win-win
  resolution for both parties.

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Why does Oklahoma have excess water?

• In the 1950s, United States senators from
  Oklahoma started pushing the U.S. Army Corps of
  Engineers to build reservoirs.
• To get congressional backing, Oklahoma enlisted
  support from Texas.
• The Corps used anticipated future demand from
  Texas municipalities to justify water development
  projects in Oklahoma. Legislators from Oklahoma
  urged the Corps to use such future demands as
  justification for modifying Hugo Reservoir to
  include water supply storage
• Lets dont worry too much about whether Fort
  Worth or Dallas might take some of our water, or
  Oklahoma City, because if these projects are
  built to the size I pray God we will build them
  lets think big thoughts and build them to that
  size they will be able to supply it. - U.S.
  Senator Mike Monroney (OK) in 1956

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Additional quotes

• communities both here and within central
  Oklahoma, and yes, there in North Texas, will be
  knocking at the doors of the Army Engineers and
  of those able to supply that water, standing in
  line with the money in their hands, saying, We
  are ready to help provide economic justification
  and economic compensation for these reservoirs.
  - U.S. Senator Robert Kerr (OK) in 1956
• Water supplies for the urban and industrial
  development in the region are becoming
  inadequate. The Kiamichi River Basin offers an
  excellent potential source of future water supply
  for the central Oklahoma north Texas region.
• Public Works Report
• when the worst drought on record struck portions
  of the States of Oklahoma and Texas and when
  representatives of some of the largest cities in
  these States expressed interest in long-range
  water-supply plans of major extent, it is
  considered that potential users of this water
  should not be limited in location to the Little
  River Basin, but should include municipalities
  and industries within a radius of 100 miles or
  more, possibly as far away as Oklahoma City or
  the Dallas and Fort Worth areas. - U.S. Army
  Corps of Engineers Report

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Additional quotes

• Thank you very much, Colonel Bristor. Senator
  Monroney, Congressman Albert, representatives of
  the Corps, my friends in southeastern Oklahoma,
  and a hearty welcome to our good friends from
  across the Red River from Texas. We are certainly
  glad they are here. I say to you that in my
  judgement the difference between getting complete
  flood control for the Kiamichi watershed and not
  getting it will be the availability of the
  opportunity to sell municipal and industrial
  water from upstream dams above the previously
  authorized site. - U.S. Senator Robert Kerr (OK)
  at public hearing in 1956
• We are proud of this country down here where
  most of us have lived a long time. We want to see
  our neighbors, Texas and Louisiana, prosper, but
  we want to prosper also ourselves. We want to I
  dont know, I think we are very generous in being
  willing for any part of the water go outside the
  state if we have any left over. I dont think
  many states would agree to that, but I think
  Oklahoma would.
• U.S. Representative Carl Albert (OK) at public
  hearing in 1956

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• Report by U.S. Army Chief of Engineers to the
  Senate Public Works Committee in 1962
• Water supplies for the urban and industrial
  development in the region are becoming
  inadequate. The Kiamichi River Basin offers an
  excellent potential source of future water supply
  for the central Oklahoma north Texas region.
• On page 15 of the report, special attention was
  given in determining future population growth
  for possible Kiamichi River Basin water supply
  demand areas of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and
  Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, metropolitan areas.
• The cities of Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas have
  stated they anticipate a future need for water
  from southeast Oklahoma, possibly from the
  Kiamichi River Basin.
• The metropolitan centers of Oklahoma City,
  Dallas and Fort Worth, northwest and southeast,
  respectively, of the Kiamichi River Basin, are
  going to need additional water supplies to
  sustain the anticipated growth. Therefore, the
  reservoirs in the Kiamichi River Basin could
  provide the water supply for the metropolitan
  areas.

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• Report by U.S. Army Chief of Engineers to the
  Senate Public Works Committee in 1962
• Because of the abundant rainfall, this area is
  being considered more and more as a source of
  water supply for central and southeast Oklahoma
  and northern Texasthe cities of Fort Worth and
  Dallas, Texas, have also expressed interest in
  obtaining water from southeastern Oklahoma.
• The State of Oklahoma at this time holds a copy
  of a request to the district engineer at Tulsa,
  Okla., from a city in Texas, requesting
  substantially more storage in the project area
  under discussion than the total water supply
  storage provided for in six upstream reservoirs
  contained in the report. The expanded use of
  water and the pressing demands for municipal,
  industrial and power needs for it presuade us to
  believe that we cannot overdevelop these
  projects.
• - Comments submitted by Governor of Oklahoma in
  1956 to the U.S. Army Chief of Engineers

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Oklahoma Water Usage and Facts

• Oklahoma has enough water in just one of the
  proposed river basins to serve 11 metropolitan
  cities the size of Oklahoma City.
• The reservoirs currently available for municipal
  water use can provide up to four times the
  states water needs.
• Perceived water shortage in western Oklahoma is
  due to lack of infrastructure, not lack of water.

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TRWD Proposal

• TRWD wants to purchase surplus gulf-bound water
  destined for the Red River in order to meet
  future water needs.
• Water would be captured from the Beaver, Cache
  and Kiamichi Rivers just before it enters the Red
  River and pumped back to the Fort Worth area.

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Proposed Oklahoma River Basins
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Key Points About TRWDs Proposal

• Absolutely no water will be taken directly from
  Oklahoma reservoirs.
• Gulf Bound water to be taken directly before it
  flows into the Red River.
• We want to strike an agreement outside of the
  courtroom. We are extremely confident that we
  can work out a deal with the State of Oklahoma
  that is a win-win for both parties.

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