O-2000-2421 - Laserfiche WebLink

Browse Search

e e THIS CONTRACT IS SUBJECT TO ARBITRATION UNDER THE TEXAS GENERAL ARBITRATION ACT AMENDMENT TO CONTRACT FOR THE SUPPLY OF POTABLE WATER AND THE CONSTRUCTION, FINANCING AND OPERATION OF WATER TREATMENT TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION FACILITIES THIS CONTRACT, made and entered into as ofthedt.JI~day Of~, 2000, (the "Amendment") amends the Contract made and entered into as of the 23rd day of November, 1987, by and between La Porte Area Water Authority (the "Authority"), a conservation and reclamation district in Harris County, Texas, and a governmental agency and a body politic and corporate, created by Chapter 729, page 2678, Acts of the 67th Legislature of the State of Texas, Regular Session, 1981 (the "Act"), and the City of La Porte, Texas, a municipal corporation of the State of Texas (the "City"), (hereinafter sometimes referred to as the "Contract"). WIT N E SSE T H: WHEREAS, the City and other Participants named in Section 2.01 hereof are required by the rules and regulations of the Harris-Galveston Coastal Subsidence District (the "Subsidence District") to continue the reduced levels of their respective withdrawals of groundwater from their wells, and replace such withdrawals with surface Water which has been properly treated for domestic use; WHEREAS, the Authority has existed primarily for the purpose of providing Water treatment and transmission facilities necessary to serve municipal corporations, political subdivisions and others within an area described in Section 3 of the Act, and may provide such facilities to persons, corporations, municipal corporations, political subdivisions and others within an area described within Section 5(b) of the Act;