Thanks to a ruling last week by the Texas Water Development Board, water planners in Region D (Northeast Texas) and Region C (DFW area) will head to mediation to try and resolve the decades long conflict over the proposed Marvin Nichols Reservoir.
The TWDB ruled that there was a conflict between the two regions and ordered them to go to mediation to resolve the issue. The issue is very simple. Region C’s long range water plan includes the construction of the Marvin Nichols Reservoir in the Sulphur River Basin, and the Region D plan states specifically that Marvin Nichols should not only not be included in the Region C plan, but should not be included in any regional or state plan.
According to state law, the TWDB cannot approve a regional water plan until all interregional conflicts have been resolved.
