THE BATTALION Page 7
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1977
Mlican
listory full
if flurries
lontinued from Dam, page 1)
he present Millican Dam site
born of a joint venture in 1960
[tween Dow Chemical Co., irriga-
in canal companies and the cities
of Bryan, College Station and
Ivasota. The partnership hired a
Hvate engineering firm, which de-
^chitectu, ! ne d Millican Dam to create a
issive 200 square mile reservoir.
In 1961 the Texas Board of Water
igineers approved a permit for the
ilican site. It was submitted to
_ _ ingress but withdrawn when the
a did not get support in Con-
u lecture
gn.
part of a
nd two
dents, »mi
a one-mil
to be kit
national cm
ipected 1,
pn
The U.S. Army Corps of Engi-
ers brought the dam proposal
ck to life in 1966 when it set forth
illican Dam as part of a two-dam
oject along with a dam 25 miles
n with sis Arth of College Station. House
ocument 341, providing for the
ro dams, was approved by Con-
ess in 1968 at an estimated cost of
119 million.
Federal funds were appropriated
litially in 1970 for design studies
id have been similarly given every
he compel: :ar since.
and theda b 1972 the Corps of Engineers
teetualem as given responsibility for issuing
i, in addili im construction permits. A flurry
national I 'public stands began with an area
Hnvironmental Action Council
AC) report that listed some
logical and agricultural effects of
Emerging so much land. The FAC
port was based on a 1970
ivironmental studies report by a
|exas A&M University task force,
bich made public the issues of
later quality and projected wildlife
pulations for the reservoir.
The
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In April 1974 the College Station
ity Council passed a resolution
pporting continued funding of
[je-construction planning for Milli-
nDan, hut reversed their support
year later. The BRA requested
er $800,000 in April 1975 for ex-
nsive planning and design of Mil
an Dam.
The EAC, lead by Cornelius Van
ivel, continued to fight the proj-
A 1974 EAC report suggested
fematives to damming the river,
Ich as levees and inproved river
nnels.
Van Bavel called Millican a
[poorly designed project’ in a
atement before the Bryan City
buncil in 1975. But the appropria-
lons for planning were granted by
gress in June 1975, and Gerald
brd included the necessary funds
his 1976 budget.
In the spring of 1975 the issue of
fractable lignite coal in the reser-
[oirarea became prominent.
“This is the richest valley in the
ate of Texas were going to flood,’
id Rep. Olin Teague (D-Tex.) said
the time. “Millican is on the
id—lignite may change the pic-
re.”
In February 1976, the U.S.
ureau of Mines reported that a
and of economically extractable
lay in the proposed reservoir
|ite. The Corps of Engineers im-
ediately began to plan alternative
sites to allow excavation of the
ml.
The EAC formally requested
iongress to cut off federal funds for
e Millican Dan project March of
976, but Congress ignored the re-
piest.
Funding to the Corps of Engi
neers continues as they study possi-
sle sites for the dam. Planning was
lelayed at least two years by the
coal discovery, one Corps of Engi
neers official said recently.
No definite decision has been
made about future construction of
the dam because new feasibility
studies are not complete. If the de
cision is made to build the dam, the
dam will require over seven years to
build and the reservoir four years to
fill completely.
So Millican Dam, at the least, is
over a decade away
Robb new
Virginia
Lt. Gov.
ure.
RICHMOND (UPI) — Charles
Robb, a political newcomer and
son-in-law of the late President
Lyndon Johnson, is the only glim
mer of gold Virginia Democrats are
seeing at the end of their disastrous
Rainbow’’ ticket.
Robb, 38, was elected Tuesday as
lieutenant governor, a mostly cere
monial post considered a stepping
stone to higher office, to give Dem-
ocrats their only victory in three
statewide races.
Robb posted a landslide win over
jlwo-term state senator A. Joseph
Canada of Virginia Beach, waging a
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campaign that overcame any ill feel
ing toward Johnson’s “Great Soci
ety” without repudiating his wife’s
father — or the initial name recogni
tion he had.
Democratic gubernatorial candi
date Henry Howell dubbed his par
ty’s candidates the “Rainbow” ticket
because of the diverse mix of his
neopopulist stance, Edward Lane’s
conservative views in his race for at
torney general, and Robb’s non-
ideological campaign.
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