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Plum Creek Watershed Partnership to hold Stakeholder Meeting

LOCKHART - The Plum Creek Watershed Partnership (Partnership) is celebrating its tenth year as an organization in 2016 and welcomes the public to participate in a special stakeholder meeting set for May 12, 2016 at Kyle City Hall. Kyle City Hall is located at 100 West Center Street in Kyle.

Sign in begins at 6:00 p.m. with a free BBQ dinner sponsored by the Caldwell-Travis Soil and Water Conservation District to be provided for meeting attendees. Partnership meetings are free and open to the public. Please send your RSVP by 5:00 p.m. on May 10, 2016 to ndornak [at] plumcreekwatershed [dot] org or by calling (512) 213-7389.

The meeting will kick off with a welcome from the City of Kyle at 6:30 p.m. followed by presentations from Nick Dornak, Plum Creek Watershed Coordinator, and Troy Freeman, Caldwell-Travis Soil and Water Conservation District Technician. Meredith Miller, Senior Program Coordinator with the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, will be the evening’s keynote speaker. Discussion topics will include low impact development, feral hog abatement, water conservation, water quality management, and stakeholder engagement.

"We are excited to announce that our next Partnership meeting will be hosted by the City of Kyle. The Plum Creek watershed and Kyle, in particular, are undergoing a period of unprecedented growth with many residents new to the watershed and the watershed protection planning process. If you live, work, or play in the Plum Creek watershed and have a desire to join the wonderful community of stakeholders working to restore water quality in Plum Creek, this is definitely the meeting you should attend," said Dornak.

For more information on how you can help restore and protect Plum Creek, go to http://plumcreek.tamu.edu/. You can also email Watershed Coordinator, Nick Dornak, at ndornak [at] plumcreekwatershed [dot] org. Requests by mail should be sent to 1403 Blackjack Street, Suite B, Lockhart, Texas, 78644.

Funding for the development and support of the Plum Creek Watershed Protection Plan is through a Clean Water Act grant provided by the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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