Drew, this one is not a Corps of engineers lake -- theirs are flood control projects, and the Marvin Nichols lake is a water resources project, under the control of the Sulphur River Basin Authority (SRBA)a body of (unpaid) local representatives appointed by the governor. I was a member of the board a few years ago, so have some acquaintance with the project. It is not expected to be built for a couple of decades, more or less. All water in Texas belongs to the State, not the landowners, and has been developed when required to meet the water needs of Texas' growing industry and growing population. The Marvin Nichols site, not yet defined in detail, will indeed flood some gravesites and other "heritage"sites, including ones in Red River County. The Authority will have to pay for the graves' relocation, the amount varying according to the expense of the move. Just as in the case of highway construction, the land of private owners whose land will be covered or "mitigated" for the project will be bought from them by time-honored procedures, on the "eminent domain" principle. Your dictionary can define this phrase better than I can. As has always been the experience throughout Texas, the water impounded will be a tremendous economic and fiscal boon to the area. Professors at North Texas State University estimate that even at today's prices the economic benefit to the area, conservatively estimated, will be well up in the $Nine-figure range. Red River County's 80-year economic decline will be reversed. Naturally some affected landowners (particularly heirs of the folks listed in Lawrence and Sue Dale's Red River County cemetery book) are up in arms . For some reason, lake projects always arouse a lot more vocal opposition of this kind than do highway projects, which often involve much more private land. Fortunately, the law creating the SRBA gives control over the arrangements for financing the project (which will cost up in ten figures) to the Region. After water is reserved for the needs of the area, the DFW metroplex, which will buy or market most of the SRBA bonds, will be the principal user of the impounded water. If anyone is interested, I could post SRBA's address so that questions can be more authoritatively answered. ----- Original Message ----- From: "DREW SLATE" <drew-slate@charter.net> To: <TXREDRIV-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 8:35 AM Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] just talk > Is this new lake the one that will be over on the > Bowie/Red River county line? I have spoken with Lawrence > about a new lake that is going to cause some serious > cemetery problems. It appears in present plans that there > will be a few cememteries that will be UNDER water. > Anyone have any information on this? I will dig up the > last email I got my Lawrence on it and maybe that will > help. If I remember correctly it will in the SE area of > the county. > > Thanks, > Drew Slate > Fort Worth, Tx > > On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 04:55:12 -0600 > "jhowison" <jhowison@1starnet.com> wrote: > >Thanks, Sam, for the reminder. The "Main Street" project > >is really an > >upper. Becky Hale is the Honcho, and doing a super job. > > Any alums visiting > >Clarksville will be glad they stopped by her "shop" on > >the north side of the > >square. > >Unfortunately, Clarksville's economy won't turn around > >until they build > >Marvin Nichols lake, but that is some years in the future > >-- some folks > >oppose the lake anyway. But we can hope that the > >county's economy has > >already "bottomed out." > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "sam embrey" <sembrey@cox-internet.com> > >To: <TXREDRIV-L@rootsweb.com> > >Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 3:03 AM > >Subject: [TXREDRIV] just talk > > > > > >> I feel sure that many of you know already, but in case > >>you don't, pull up > >the Paris News on your computer, and you will find it > >full of Clarksville > >happenings. Also, for a change, most of it seems good, > >and GOD knows it is > >time some of the bad stuff is not the main issues. Who > >knows, the old girl > >might be on it's way back, at least we can hope so. > >> Sam > >> Paris > >> > >> > >> ==== TXREDRIV Mailing List ==== > >> > >> > >> > >> ============================== > >> To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online > >>genealogy records, > >go to: > >> http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > >==== TXREDRIV Mailing List ==== > > > > > > > >============================== > >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online > >genealogy records, go to: > >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > ==== TXREDRIV Mailing List ==== > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >