Eastland County Water Supply District would like to address some of the claims and accusations made against the District. Starting with the District’s water loss, the District has minimal annual water loss, as do all water treatment facilities . It is the cost of doing business in the water treatment process and to assure we send out the best quality water to our customers. The District’s treatment process is considered stateof- the-art and with this process water loss is kept to a minimum while producing water quality safely above state and federal requirements. We are told by our engineers that our water loss is comparable to other treatment facilities .The District is permitted by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for the discharge of effluent water from our facility into Colony Creek. Operations specialist from our engineering firm eHT have produced the following water loss data which was reported to Texas Water Development Board in our annual water use report. ECWSD 2023 8.55%, 2022 16.83%, 2021 2.58%, 2020 0.10%; 4yr average is 7.01%
In response to the claim that the District has not been giving the cities credit for income received from other parties in figuring water charges per the contract with the cities, that portion of the contract, section 3 page 8, states: The District may sell water to other contracting parties. Consequently, revenues received from other contracting parties shall be treated by the District as a credit to the cities water charges from the District. This section relates to water sales to other contracting parties. The following is the 2024 Cost-of-Water Calculation where you can see not only does the District give credit for other water sales but we also give credit for other income that is not from water sales.
Total Projected Operating Budget: $1,959,040.00 Less Expense Offsets: Late Lot Lease $(10,000), Eastland Insurance pass through charge $(5280.00), Interest Income &(8,000.00), Bulk Water Sales raw water $(26,000.00), Miscellaneous Income $(15,000.00).
