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Candidate question: What is the water plan?
Columns, Opinions
Staff Report on October 19, 2022
Candidate question: What is the water plan?

By David Patterson

Susan Cook, and Walt Smith were the only candidates that answered this week’s question:

Is there a Hays County plan to bring water infrastructure to all of the existing homesteads and subdivisions that are completely dependent on the aquifers during a multi-year drought? Only those living in cities in Hays County will be sure to have water during a multi-year drought. What is the plan for all of the rural well owners, and subdivisions that are not hooked up to a city water...

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