Marvin Nichols Reservoir opponents calling for it to be dropped from Texas water plans spoke at a meeting with regional officials.
From left, Casey Conway holds his grandson Braxton Altal, alongside his wife Susan Conway, their daughter Shawnee Conway and her daughter Novalee Martinez with a collection of signs in opposition to the proposed Marvin Nichols Reservoir during a meeting of the North East Texas Regional Water Planning Group D on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024, in Pittsburg, Texas.
Jim Thompson, the chair of the Region D planning group, listens to Region C chair Kevin Ward address a meeting of the North East Texas Regional Water Planning Group D regarding the proposed Marvin Nichols Reservoir on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024, in Pittsburg, Texas.Much of the crowd was attentive but unsympathetic. Thompson responded later in the meeting, reiterating that he is willing to work together to find additional supplies in the Region D area that could help Region C.
Proponents for the manmade lake have recently called for it to be online by 2050 and a recent estimate put the cost at $7 billion. The Texas Water Development Board recently completed a review of the project, Cheatwood said in the decade or so he’s been speaking at meetings, he typically talks about data and numbers but he chose to switch up his approach Wednesday. Instead, he talked about his dreams of living in Cuthand and a desire of continuing to raise his kids there.Those hopes are something that can’t be taken from him, he said, adding that he won’t leave. “Amen,” someone from the audience said before people applauded. Cheatwood said the deal was a land grab before anything else.
Tawnya Cagle, 50, said her family moved from Rockwall to northeast Texas in 2017 and had never heard of the Marvin Nichols Reservoir.
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