A large contingent of Northeast Texas landowners and those opposed to the construction of the proposed Marvin Nichols Reservoir made the trip to Arlington, on Monday to attend a Region C meeting and voice their concerns and opposition.
The Region C water planning meeting included a presentation of the recent TWDB feasibility study on the proposed reservoir. Freese and Nichols is the engi- neering firm that has been pushing the lake’s construction for decades now. Many at the meeting came away with the feeling their presentation was “whitewashed” making it sound to those that are new to the story as though the impacts would be minor.
Janice Bezanson, the senior policy director for the Texas Conservation Alliance, attended Monday’s meeting and noted that the people of Northeast Texas did an impressive job of relaying to the Region C of- ficials the tremendous neg ative impacts that the lake would have on the region.
