At Thursday’s meeting, Comal County Commissioners will consider asking the governor’s office for extra time to build a dam on the Dry Comal Creek.
Located near the Holcim quarry just west of Krueger Canyon Road and north of Farm-to-Market 482, the dam was to be finished by around February 2010.
County Commissioners could now be asking the Governor’s Division of Emergency Management to extend that completion date for an extra year, after encountering problems with the terrain at the site, according to County Judge Danny Scheel.
He said construction crews encountered unstable “rotten gravel,” and because the dam must be built on solid rock, extra time will be needed to pour a foundation underneath the future structure.
The county must ask the governor’s office for an extension because nearly $6 million of the more than $7 million project is being paid for through grant funding, which was awarded on the condition of met deadlines.
Scheel said the delay would likely add three months to the project’s timeline, but the county was asking for one year to “cover their bases.”
Commissioners Court will meet at 8:15 a.m. Thursday at 199 Main Plaza.
