Feasibility study deemed flawed by experts

The proposed Marvin Nichols Reservoir has been opposed by water planners in Northeast Texas since it first became an issue more than 20 years ago.

Region D (Northeast Texas) has repeatedly fought and lobbied against the efforts of Region C (Dallas area) water planners to keep the reservoir out of the state water plan, and local landowners and businessmen like Ward Timber have gone as far as filing, and winning, a lawsuit to block the reservoir’s construction.

The behemoth project in the Sulphur River basin is projected to take an approximate 250,000 acres including the 66,000 acres in the footprint of the reservoir plus up to an additional three times that amount for mitigation.