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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1975
State plan shows
recreational needs
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With the implementation of the
proposed Millican Dam and Reser
voir, College Station residents
could have a 1,000-acre recreational
facility resting on the shores of a
55,000-acre lake less than 10 miles
south of town. v
But, with an 11,460-acre reser
voir (Lake Somerville) lying 25
miles west of the city, will the in
creased recreational benefits be jus
tified?
Area recreational needs
The U.S. Army Corps of En
gineers will build the dam, pending
further Congressional approval, but
is required by law to coordinate its
recreational development proposals
with state master plans for outdoor
recreation.
Texas’ plan is prepared by the
state Parks and Wildlife Depart
ment and has recently been up
dated, showing recreational needs
in urban and rural areas from 1968
to the year 2000.
The proposed Millican Lake
would lie in the middle of rural Reg
ion 21 of the master plan, an area
consisting of Brazos, Grimes, Madi
son, Robertson, Leon, Burleson
and Washington counties.
According to the master plan, the
rural portions of seven-county reg
ion need no additional acres of water
for recreational use through 1980,
while only 88 acres of water are
needed within urban areas. By the
year 2000, only 1,487 acres of recre
ational water will be required in
both rural and urban areas.
(Millican’s 55,000 acres would more
than surpass that need.)
The presence of the 11,460-acre
Lake Somerville within the region
no doubt accounts for the abun
dance of recreational waters. The
Corps of Engineers operates six
parks totalling 1,935 acres on the
lake.
(Although Somerville provides
recreational water, the master plan
says campsites, boat ramps, and
“designated freshwater swimming
areas’ are high priority require
ments in the region by 1980.)
Responsibility
The Corps of Engineers is re
quired to find a local entity to pro
vide recreational facilities on their
reservoirs. Up until recently the
Corps itself would often take the
bulk of that responsibility, but has
been forced by Congress out of the
recreation business.
For the Millican Reservoir pro
ject, the Brazos River Authority
(BRA) has committed itself to meet,,
on a matching grant basis, the
minimum recreational require
ments outlined in a plan for the
dam, which should be prepared
early next year. The operation and
maintenance of these facilities will
also be the river authority’s respon
sibility.
The BRA’s main interest in Milli
can Reservoir is not for the future
recreational needs of the area. The
BRA, a state agency concerned with
water development in the Brazos
River Basin, sells water from the
reservoirs in its jurisdiction to in
dustries, municipalities and for ag
ricultural use. Millican would pro
vide the BRA with another revenue
source and the group’s general
manager. Col. Walter Wells, says
that justifies the expense on recrea
tional development.
Wells said the BRA did not want
to get involved in recreation, but
“no one else would do it.” As has
been the case with other lakes in the
Brazos River Basin, Wells said he
will encourage the Texas Parks and
Wildlife Department to pick up the
operation and maintenance of lake
parks.
Neither College Station nor
Bryan have expressed an interest in
setting up city parks adjacent to Mil
lican. College Station City Manager
North Bardell said the city is not
looking into that question yet. Lou
Odle, Bryan city manager, said the
dam and reservoir are “outside our
jurisdiction (city limits)’’ and would
not comment.
The BRA, reluctantly or not, has
been involved in recreational de
velopment before. When it built
Lake Possum Kingdom west of Fort
Worth on the Brazos River, it built a
1,200-acre park to go with it. The
park has since been donated to the
Parks and Wildlife Department for
operation and maintenance.
The Corps of Engineers and BRA
are working on a recreational plan
for Millican Lake to be submitted as
part of the “Phase I General Design
Memorandum,” which will be pre
sented to Congress next year.
Wells said a large recreational
area “of possibly 1,000 acres” with
boat ramps and campsites is tenta
tively planned for the west shore of
the lake near Bryan-College Station
and a similar facility is planned ac
ross the lake. There will be at least
100 developed campsites around
the lake, he said, and the BRA will
have to supply sanitation and water
supply for them.
The BRA will be responsible,
again on a matching fund basis, for
new roads created within recrea
tional areas. (Highways 6 and 30,
which will be partially flooded by
the lake, will be elevated above the
lake water level as part of the gen
eral construction costs of the dam. )
Wells said he has no idea what
these projects will cost, hut he did
describe it as “significant.”
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