The Texarkana, Arkansas, Board of Directors will vote Tuesday on an emergency ordinance that would let the Southwest Arkansas Water District offer up to 110 million gallons a day of the city’s Millwood Lake water rights to a Dallas company planning a pipeline into Texas.
The special called meeting, with that single item on the agenda, starts at 6 p.m. in the board room at City Hall, 216 Walnut St.
The ordinance would authorize Mayor Allen Brown and City Manager Tyler Richards to sign an exclusivity agreement with Heartland Water Partners LLC, the water district, the cities of Hope and Ashdown and the town of Ogden, with any changes the two of them “deem necessary or appropriate.” It would also let the district apply to the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission on the city’s behalf for approval to move the water out of state…