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Ten Easy Water Conservation Tips - Texas Commission on Environmental Quality -
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality advises the following tips for water conservation:
1. Collect rainwater for outdoor use during the peak summer months, and you can save up to 1,300 gallons of water.
2. Watering your lawn in the morning saves water from being evaporated by the midday heat and reduces your water bill, too!
3. When needed, water your lawn one inch, once a week. Place a 6-ounce tuna can on your lawn and stop watering when it's full.
4. If every household fixed just one leaky faucet, we could reduce water use in Texas by more than 13 billion gallons a year!
5. Installing a water-efficient showerhead can reduce water consumption by 25% to 60% and save energy.
6. Check your toilet by using a leak-detection dye tablet; otherwise, you could be wasting about 200 gallons of water a day.
7. Turn off the water faucet while your brush your teeth and save up to 4 gallons of water per minute.
8. Replacing older toilets with water-efficient toilets can save 9,000 gallons of water a year.
9. Washing only full loads of laundry can save an average household more than 3,400 gallons of water each year.
10. An Energy Star dishwasher is about 25% more efficient than a conventional one, and will save about 800 gallons of water per year.
For more information, please visit the Take Care of Texas website, www.takecareoftexas.com
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Hurricane Preparedness Guidelines -
Hurricane Season is June 1 through November 30
The Texas Division of Emergency Management recommends that residents begin now to make evacuation plans, prepare emergency kits and learn evacuation routes.
Hurricane dangers include high winds, tornadoes and heavy rains. Monitor weather broadcasts during this storm season and be prepared. Even the weakest hurricane can damage buildings, flood roads and uproot trees. Tornadoes are often spawned by hurricanes, even well away from the eye of the storm. Heavy rainfall can occur hundreds of miles away from the storm resulting in flooding.
If a hurricane or flooding is an immediate threat, plan to evacuate. Make a plan now, discuss it with family, friends and relatives and review it again if a storm approaches. Expect crowded routes, limited gasoline and supplies, and extended travel time.
Prepare your family’s emergency kit and keep it ready. Consider including the following:
Bottled water (three-day supply of four quarts per person per day)
Food (three-day supply of non-perishable foods such as canned meats, fruits and vegetables)
Can opener, pocket knife, eating utensils, cups, plates and bowls
First-aid kit and at least a 30 day supply of prescription medicines
Battery-operated radio and extra batteries
Flashlight and extra batteries
Tools, tape, plastic sheeting, signal flares and matches
Fire extinguisher
Sanitation products such as toilet paper, paper towels, soap, detergent, bleach and disinfectant
Clothing and bedding for each family member.
Special items for babies, the elderly, disabled persons or others with special needs
Cash or traveler’s checks
Important documents (kept in waterproof containers) such as insurance policies, deeds, titles, stocks, birth certificates, passports, wills, immunization records, etc.
If you have a pet, include pet food, a carrier or cage, and, where appropriate, a leash in your supplies.
Evacuation Zone Information: if you are interested in registering and you want to find out whether you or your loved ones are living in an evacuation zone, dial 2-1-1 for information.
The 2-1-1- Registry should also be contacted by those with special health care needs (including those who are disabled or medically fragile) who live in evacuation zones and do not have friends or family to help in an evacuation. Those persons should register for assisted transportation in advance by dialing 2-1-1. These arrangements must be made IN ADVANCE. It is confidential. Do not wait until a storm is in the Gulf to register for assistance.
If you need transportation, register with 2-1-1. If you do not have a car or other vehicle, and you cannot get a ride with friends, neighbors or family, register IN ADVANCE for assisted transportation by dialing 2-1-1.
Helpful websites:
Road Conditions: www.dot.state.tx.us/travel/road_conditions.htm
National Hurricane Center: www.nhc.noaa.gov
2-1-1 Texas General Information: www.txdps.state.tx.us/dem/pages/211texas.htm
Hurricane Preparedness tips online:
Texas Division of Emergency Management Website
www.txdps.state.tx.us/dem
FEMA Website: www.Ready.gov
Red Cross Website: www.redcross.org
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Petition for Annexation - Notice of Public Hearing, September 14, 2010 -
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS, THAT:
The City of Livingston, Texas proposes to institute annexation proceedings to enlarge and extend the boundary limits of said City to include the following described territory, being 21.738 Acres in the Roland Ferguson Survey, A-245, Polk County, Texas and being all of an 8.000 Acre Tract and a 12.862 Acre Tract conveyed to Kent Colburn, et al, as Trustees for the First United Methodist Church of Livingston, Texas by deed dated August 6, 1992 and recorded in Volume 858, Page 347 of the Polk County Official Records and also being all of a 0.862 Acre Tract conveyed to the First United Methodist Church of Livingston by deed dated December 17, 2009 and recorded in Volume 1728, Page 107 of said Official Records. Said 21.738 Acres being more particularly described as follows:
BEGINNING at the Northwest corner of said 8.000 Acre Tract and the Northeast corner of the residue of an 8.8 Acre Tract conveyed to Simon Flores and wife, Rafela Flores, by deed recorded in Volume 141, Page 524 of the Polk County Deed Records, found a 4" round concrete monument for corner in the South Line of the residue of a Tract conveyed to Raymond Flores and wife, Anna Flores, by deed recorded in Volume 294, Page 197 of said Deed Records and also being shown as the P.O.B. on a plat of said 21.738 Acres prepared this same date;
THENCE with the North Line of said 8.000 Acre Tract, the South Line of said Raymond Flores Tract, and the South Line of a 1 Acre Tract conveyed to Lonell Brasher by deed recorded in Volume 334, Page 280 of said Deed Records, S72°33'28"E 350.24 feet to an ell corner of said 8.000 Acre Tract and the Southeast corner of said 1 Acre Tract, found a 2" iron pipe for corner;
THENCE with the East Line of said 1 Acre Tract and the most Westerly East Line of said 8.000 Acre Tract, N32°40'39"E, at 3.66 feet pass the most Easterly Northwest corner of said 8.000 Acre Tract and the West corner of said 0.862 Acre Tract and continue on same course with the most Westerly Northwest Line of said 0.862 Acre Tract and the East Line of said 1.0 Acre Tract a total distance of 124.72 feet to the most Westerly North corner of said 0.862 Acre Tract, the most Southerly Northeast corner of said 1 Acre Tract, the Southeast corner of a 0.04 Acre Tract conveyed to Eastex Telephone Cooperative by deed recorded in Volume 180, Page 617-A of said Deed Records, and the Southwest corner of a 0.028 Acre Tract conveyed to Eastex Telephone Cooperative, Inc. as recorded in Volume 352, Page 521 of said Deed Records, set a 5/8" iron rod with a yellow cap stamped "RPLS No. 5368" (this is typical of iron rods set for this survey) for corner;
THENCE with the most Westerly Northeast Line of said 0.862 Acre Tract, the Southwest corner of said 0.028 Acre Tract, and the Southwest corner of a second 0.028 Acre Tract conveyed to Eastex Telephone Cooperative, Inc. by deed recorded in Volume 379, Page 471 of said Deed Records, S50°20'11"E 50.03 feet to and interior corner of said 0.862 Acre Page 2, Notice of Public Hearing
Tract and the South corner of said second 0.028 Acre Tract, found a 1/2" iron rod for corner;
THENCE with the most Northerly Northwest Line of said second 0.862 Acre Tract and the Southeast Line of said second 0.028 Acre Tract, N31°41'40"E 50.15 feet to the most Northerly North corner of said 0.862 Acre Tract and the East corner of said second 0.028 Acre Tract, found a 1/2" iron rod for corner in the Southwest right of way of U.S. Highway No. 190;
THENCE with the most Easterly Northeast Line of said 0.862 Acre Tract, the Northeast Line of said 12.862 Acre Tract, and said right of way, S49°57'05"E 919.58 feet to the East corner of said 12.862 Acre Tract and the North corner of a 1.86 Acre Tract conveyed to Ben Ogletree, Sr. as Tract 1 in Volume 1084, Page 648 of said Official Records, set a 5/8" iron rod for corner;
THENCE with the Southeast Line of said 12.862 Acre Tract and the Northwest Line of said 1.86 Acre Tract, S43°31'56"W 808.63 feet to the Southeast corner of said 12.862 Acre Tract and the Southwest corner of said 1.86 Acre Tract, found a 4" round concrete monument for corner in the most Northerly North Line of a 72.0038 Acre Tract conveyed to the Livingston Independent School District by deed recorded in Volume 1634, Page 196 of said Official Records and also being in the North Line of the existing City Limits of Livingston, Texas as described in Volume 1720, Page 664 of said Official Records;
THENCE with the South Line of said 12.862 Acre Tract, the North Line of said 72.0038 Acre Tract, and the North Line of said City Limits, S87°00'45"W 542.42 feet to the Southwest corner of said 12.862 Acre Tract, the Northwest corner of said 72.0038 Acre Tract, and the Northwest corner of said City Limits, found a 1 1/4" iron pipe for corner in the East Line of a 1.00 Acre Tract conveyed to Benjamin Lee Moseley by deed recorded in Volume 1545, Page 346 of said Official Records;
THENCE with the West Line of said 12.862 Acre Tract, the West Line of said 8.00 Acre Tract, the East Line of said 1.00 Acre Tract, the East Line of a 1.00 Acre Tract conveyed to Toni Marie Young by deed recorded in Volume 261, Page 678 of said Deed Records, the East Line of the residue of a 9 Acre Tract conveyed to Louis Flores and Joe Flores by deed recorded in Volume 378, Page 251 of said Deed Records, the East Line of a 0.340 Acre Tract conveyed to Robert Lee Blau and Lauren Kay Rasbury by deed recorded in Volume 1656, Page 488 of said Official Records, the East Line of a 0.275 Acre Tract conveyed to Bill Martinez by deed recorded in Volume 1424, Page 523 of said Official Records, and the East Line of said Simon Flores residue tract, N03°25'45"W 1197.62 feet to the Place of Beginning and containing 21.738 Acres of Land.
The bearings described herein refer to the Texas State Plane Coordinate System, NAD 1983, and are based upon the City of Livingston Horizontal Control Network Monuments GPS 03 and GPS 04.
Page 3, Notice of Public Hearing
Two public hearings will be held by and before the City Council of the City of Livingston, Texas, the first public hearing called for the 14th day of September, 2010 at 5:00 p.m. and the second public hearing called for the 21st day of September, 2010 at 5:00 p.m., each said public hearing to be held in the City Council Chamber of the City Hall of the City of Livingston, Texas, located at 200 West Church Street in Livingston, Texas. The public hearings are for all persons interested in the above proposed annexation. At the said times and place, all such persons shall have the right to appear and be heard. Of all said matters and things, all persons interested in the things and matters herein mentioned, will take notice.
By order of the City Council of the City of Livingston, Texas this the 10th day of August, 2010.
/s/Clarke Evans, Mayor
Attest:
/s/ Ellie Monteaux, City Secretary
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