1. North Texas Municipal Water District’s Proposed Lower Bois d’Arc Creek Reservoir
Presented by:
Jim Parks

2. Major North Texas Water Providers

3. NTMWD Treated Water Service Area
13 Member Cities
Allen
Farmersville
Forney
Frisco
Garland
McKinney
Mesquite
Richardson
Plano
Princeton
Rockwall
Royse City
Wylie
49 Customer Cities, Towns & Water Supply Corporations

4. NTMWD Raw Water Supply Sources

5. 2007 State Water Plan for NTMWD

6. Lower Bois d’Arc Creek Reservoir Fannin County, TX
Area: ,526 acres
Storage: ,609 ac-ft
Supply: MGD
Average Depth: ft
Maximum Depth: ft
Lake Elevation: ft msl

7. Water Right Application
Submitted - December 2006
Administratively complete - June 2007
Interbasin transfer meetings -September 2007
Supplemental application:
401 & 404 applications
Outstanding Requests for Information:
Instream Flow Study
Reservoir Operating Plan
Downstream Impacts
Mitigation Plan

8. 404 Permit Application Submitted to USACE – June 2008
EIS Determination – March 2009
EIS Contractor Selected August 2009
Public & Agency Scoping Meetings – December 2009

9. 404 Permit Application Required by USACE:
Jurisdictional Determination Report 
Habitat Evaluation Study – Reservoir Site 
Geomorphic Assessment of Streams 
Environmental Report 
Archeological Report – (begin spring 2010)

10. Land Acquisition NTMWD Board approved - November 2007
Reservoir Site Land needed – 22,590 acres
Acquisitions to date - 9,991 acres (44%)
Riverby Ranch Mitigation Area
14,958 acres

12. Riverby Ranch Mitigation Area
14,958 acres
Potentially meets all mitigation needs:
Created wetlands
Stream restoration
Uplands
Very unique opportunity
Riverby Ranch is currently for sale (closed on Feb 8th?). It is a working cattle ranch that has been significantly over grazed. Water naturally stands on the property. Drainage improvements have been made. Simple steps of removing cattle and restoring the original hydrology can greatly improve the quality of the land (mitigation credits).
There are plenty of opportunities to gain credits for forested and emergent wetlands, upland buffers and stream restoration.
There is a approx 2,600 acres of land along Bois d’Arc Creek that in the Wetland Reserve Program (WRP). This may or may not provide any opportunities for credits in this acreage. Need to do more research. It does provide the opportunities for eco-boosts and protections. The Riverby ranch currently separates 2 WRP properties.
This property is truly a unique opportunity.
The Corps staff in Tulsa managing the Section 404 Permit have been very positive to the approach the District has taken in pursuing this very unique mitigation opportunity.

13. Riverby Ranch Mitigation Area
Developing partnership with USFS to manage site
Double USFS lands within the region
USFS staff has shown strong support
Designated themselves as a “cooperating agency”
Mr. Jim Crooks, the Caddo National Grasslands District Ranger, and Ms. Linda Brett, Forest Supervisor (head of USFS in Texas), both stated that the USFS would be a “cooperating agency” for this project.
Not only did the USFS and USDA staff show strong support at the January meeting in Decatur, a senior USDA staff member from USDA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. termed the District’s approach to building this reservoir and providing adjacent mitigation lands, “the perfect project which meets almost all of the Secretary’s priorities.” She later asked if District Staff would be willing to brief the Secretary of Agriculture on the project in Washington at some future date.
As a commentary to the USFS/USDA positive response, I believe that the District’s proactive approach to including all of the key state and federal agencies as active stakeholders has been critical to the warm response they have received from both the Corps and the Forest Service.

14. Lower Bois d’ Arc Reservoir Schedule