A public meeting is being held on Tuesday, February 21st, at 2:00 pm in the City Council Chambers at City Hall, located at 116 W Bridge Street, Granbury, TX 76048 to discuss the City of Granbury's proposed Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Water Distribution System Improvements project (TWDB 62733) to make improvements to its existing water distribution system at various locations within the City of Granbury and extraterritorial jurisdiction in Hood County, Texas. One of the purposes of this hearing is to discuss the potential environmental impacts of the project and alternatives to it. This project involves construction in the 100-year floodplain and construction located in a wetland. Alternatives to construction in a floodplain/wetland, potential impacts on floodplains/wetlands and proposed mitigation measures will be addressed during the public meeting. The total estimated cost of all project elements is $15,000,000; the total cost for the project elements included in the Environmental Information Document (EID) is $6,830,000. The estimated monthly bill for a typical resident is currently $48.08. A user rate increase of $1.26 will be required to finance this project. An application for financial assistance for the project has been filed with the Texas Water Development Board, P.O. Box 13231, Austin, Texas, 78711-3231. An EID for the project has been prepared which will be available for public review at Granbury City Hall at 116 W Bridge Street between the hours of 8 am and 5 pm for 30 days following the date of this notice. Written comments on the proposed project may be sent to Luci Dunn, eHT, PO Box 3097, Abilene, TX 79604 or to the Texas Water Development Board.
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