DENTON (WBAP/KLIF)- The City of Denton voted to extend a declaration of disaster, allowing staff to continue providing water to residents of Green Tree Estates after its private water supplier cut off the water source.
The roughly 50 residents living in the neighborhood are all tax payers, but they’ve been getting water from a well since before the neighborhood was annexed into the city.
“They were provided water from a private resident, not from the city and not from a public water supplier..the owner of that water system served them notice that he would cease water supply to their homes,” said Ryan Adams with the City of Denton.
Adams said the declaration allows the city to spend $100,000 to supply them water, it’s valid for 90 days.
He said the community has helped this neighborhood immensely by hosting water drives to supply them with drinking water. The city is doing it’s part too by giving them water for cleaning, showering and flushing toilets.
“We are providing them with 55 gallon barrels and then 275 gallon tanks and we are going to refill those on a regular basis with water from the city,” Adams said.
Meantime the city is looking into ways to fix this issue permanently. “That could include supplying them with water from pipes…we are going to look into our best options,” said Adams.
The Council will meet back in December to discuss this issue moving forward.
