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The District is run by a five-member Board of Directors. These five directors are elected by the voters of the District and serve four-year terms. Four of the Directors are from the four Kenedy County Commissioner precincts. The fifth Director is elected from a precinct comprised of western Kleberg County in the Santa Gertrudis Independent School District. Director four-year terms are staggered at two year intervals. Directors from Precincts 2 and 5 serve the same term while directors from Precincts 1, 3, and 4 serve the same term. In 2009, the 81st Legislature amended the District's enabling legislation to enfranchise voters in the annexed portions of the District. Voters in the annexed portion of the district may now cast ballots for the District Board of Directors. Elections are held in May in even numbered years. According to its enabling legislation, the District has all of the powers, authority, and duties of a Texas Water Code Chapter 36 groundwater conservation district. Therefore, it has the duty to provide for the conservation, preservation, protection, recharging, and prevention of waste of groundwater, and to control subsidence. Under Chapter 36 it has the duty to develop a groundwater management plan to express how the District will meet those duties. The District’s current management plan was approved by the Texas Water Development Board on September 11, 2007. Under Chapter 36 the District has the authority to adopt and enforce rules, including rules to limit groundwater production, to provide for conserving, preserving, protecting, and recharging groundwater, to prevent degradation of water quality, and to prevent waste of groundwater. The District has many other powers that are enumerated in Chapter 36 and that allow the District to accomplish its duties. The District is located within Groundwater Management Area 16. Most of the District is located in the Coastal Bend Regional Water Planning Area (N). District territory in Hidalgo and Willacy counties is located in the Region M Regional Water Planning Area. Back to top
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