HomeMy WebLinkAboutMillican Project 020205
.. 1';'/' .;I(.c ::pt!!).!ed 'for 13 'river basin pro-
AJ....., "!;,, }:J~~~fi!ncw under way:
.B: Johnson.. PI:e~t~~~tJohnson signed the
lng the 'em-, .~ bill.inUf,eXi..ste. nl'e t tho e, ,Texas
)~l ,author- " ~h~te~ii\is~;'a' ~, ""W~> a $4.&
,1llica~ Da!? . b1~on. aPi>ll~pFi. ,'b1l]' lasJ..
n Project IS week. ' "'>:,
~ater p~o- The next step for the Millican
.'I;)l~ which Dam is to get the appropriations
~ti.9n of 70 for the project so contracts ma)'
" ation, and be let,for construction.
C~ects:. The Millican Dam site is sev-
:'. y' '$,49& million ~n I1!i.Ies northwest of Navas,o~
- t tIlat may be appro- m ,Gnm.es'an~ Brazos CountJ~s.
W" ' , " T e, whic
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~. ngUteS">ih a' lfry~
t"St~tion Chamber' of ':
,,'. '. '4-/,. '
Comm'llrce report, the land I '
ed and .bought for the dam , '
ject is categorized thus: 4 per
cent cropla.nd, 44 per cent 1m.
pr~v~<!"'and, unimproved pasture-
llamf, '.and,-p2 per cent woodland.
, , ' Although engineers hlJve not
yet detemmn'edexactly hOw ma-
ny families will be displaced by
th~ tim~ the dam is completed,
the estimate is 120. _
The Corps of . En.gineers, who
.have made severa~, " '
~timt' ','
/
"
eer's tepa .'
The Corps of Engineers has
,aid the Millican Project pro-
vides water conservation stor-
.. with the.
t~te of
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.
itL
~i1C
.terest apd'arilo 110n; as well
as interest duro ,~GPstruction
associated with the total first
cost of the project." I
A Chamber of Commerce re-
~p~t'~~J,!~1~~ .p~rt of the value
lor a d1'ffi~t"Miiji~Wil.' by. means
of statistics from' tne "NationaU
Parks Board: "The Board indi{
cates that the average visitor
will spend $1.60...or a total of
tour~t ipC~q1e of over $5,000"
000. ,Other ~ sour,ces\.,indicate as
high 'as $4"~(''isitor ,spent iJ'
the area." .
A Chamber: of 'Commerce re-
port said the land which will ~
included in the Millican projec
currently brings in les.l!.than
$10,000 a year in comity andl
school taxes, and the taxes lost
would only be reflected as less
than nine hundredths of one pen
cent of th~ total taxes collected.
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