Fort Worth Star-Telegram: FORT WORTH — The Tarrant Regional Water District has received $101.6 million in financial assistance from the Texas Water Development Board to help with the design and planning of a 179-mile pipeline that will bring more water from East Texas to the Metroplex.
The $1.9 billion pipeline is a joint project with Dallas Water Utilities.
It would run from Lake Palestine to Benbrook Lake and add 197 million gallons a day for the water district. Tarrant Regional already has two pipelines bringing water from the Cedar Creek and Richland Chambers reservoirs in East Texas.
For Dallas, the pipeline would connect the city with Lake Palestine for the first time and add 150 million gallons per day.
The water district, which supplies water to 11 counties, hopes to have a contract with Dallas Water Utilities by March. The Tarrant district hopes to have the added capacity by 2018, when new supplies will be needed.
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All that money so you people can have a nicer lawn. When you suck our lake dry, where will you go next? Ever heard of CONSERVATION??