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~` b ~~ • • O,,~ce of the Executive Director September 10, 1974 The Honorable E. A. "Buck" Thomas Mayor, City of La Porte P. 0. Box 1115 La Porte, Texas 77571 Dear Mayor Thomas: As you may recall, I sent a letter to you on February 25, 1974, requesting $1,435.00, the proportionate share for your municipality which is needed in order to provide a total local match to the $287,000 grant provided by the Texas Water Quality Board for the preparation of a Regional Water Quality Management Plan. To date, twelve municipalities in the region have responded to the request by allocating $225,000. • At this time, I ask that you and your City Council seriously consider approval of your municipality's share of the funding. Failure to provide the total local share could result in signifi- cant delays in the plan and, hence, approval of applications for funding of sewage treatment facilities. We are currently several months into the project and have accomplished several tasks. As you know, the plan requires the performance of studies relative to existing and projected population and land use, an economic base study, an inventory of. existing muni- cipal and industrial facilities (sewage treatment plants, service areas, major trunk lines, stormwater systems, urban and agricultural point and non-point run-off, solid waste disposal sitos, septic tank areas, and water treatment plant wastes) and a projection of needed facilities and its effect upon water quality. The collection of data is proceeding according to river basins. Information is now complete for the Colorado River basin counties (Colorado, W}iarton, and Matagorda) and is partially finished for the San Jacinto River basin counties (Walker, Montgomery, Ilarris, and Galveston). Work has been commenced for the Brazos liiver basin counties (Waller, Austin, Fort Bend, and Brazoria) and will begin shortly for the Trinity River basin counties (Liberty and Chambers). i ~e U . ~ o ~ ~~~~~ ail ~3~~!`~~~`17~~`'~~~(~)fri~ ~'si~t~11 M/n ~~~ Q(~Qf~G~1G~Q ~ b®4~~4®nM~ `~(~~~~ ~'~l~)r~d