This is a huge expenditure on this. Garrett said the weir structure would contain outlets and mechanical gates to allow the discharge of water, including possible flood waters. The weir and reservoir would hold up to 6,000 acre-feet of water, about 2 billion gallons. It would generate up to 40,000 acre-feet of water per year, an increase of 35.7 million gallons per day, Garrett said. That would allow the water to have a constant flow.
Water is our future.
We have been working on this for 20 years. Garrett said right now it takes up to seven days after the city requests water for it to arrive. Carmen Galbreath, an Olmito resident who attended the meeting, said she supports the project because water is getting pretty scarce in her hometown. The farmers have diverted our water. Only selected stories from The Brownsville Herald Newspaper are published on the Internet.