Hi,
The members of the Whitetail water committee would like to thank you for taking part in our first survey. 90 surveys were returned out of 230 mailed or emailed. You have told us quite a bit. We learned, for instance, that 60.9% of Whitetail residents feel that Whitetail should not try to be like any other neighborhood; 73.5 % of us do not want to be annexed by Georgetown, 68 % of us do not know if our well water is safe for consumption, and 72.9 % want some sort of neighborhood water system.
So what is going to happen now?
We are going to take some measured actions based on what you told us.
1st: We are going to try to help you to make sure that your current water supply is safe. We are going to work to establish relationships with vendors for testing water and helping with existing water systems. For example, we want to find a water testing vendor, that will provide convenient, inexpensive access to testing our wells on a regular basis.
2nd: We are going to host a series of neighborhood meetings with you and subject matter experts in various methods of supplying water to homes like ours. The first of these meetings will happen in approximately one month. The goal of these meetings is to help educate all of us so that we can all make clear, fully educated, decisive decisions about our future water supply. The conclusion of this process will be an actionable plan that will address our future water needs.
3rd: We are going to develop a neighborhood water plan. "IF" this plan involves a neighborhood water system we will lay out a budget and any individual startup costs that you will need to contribute.
During this process we are going to regularly survey you so that we are sure we are on the correct path.
We've also been getting a few questions about a story that was on KXAN last week about Whitetail Estates and water on Deer Draw. We had nothing to do with this story. If we had been involved we would have worked with the reporter to correct the inaccuracies in his report. The report, for instance, gave the impression that the neighborhood was ready to hookup to the Georgetown line. The reporter also quoted a price of up to $18k per household upfront. These statements were obviously incorrect.
Again, We want to thank all of you for taking part in the first survey in this process. We've received lots of comments from you. Please keep asking questions And telling us what you think. We welcome all opinions.
Thank You
Kent Brenneman
Larry Whelan
Mike Graeber