Category Archives: Oklahoma DEQ
Sen. Inhofe says Oklahoma has water shortage. Then how can SE Okla rural water district sell unlimited supply to drilling co. at 15 cents a barrel?
Hughes County RWD2 Board members – regular meeting 8/20/2012
I’m trying to understand all this. Senator Jim Inhofe, as reported by Enid News and Eagle (August 23, 2012) said water is serious problem in Oklahoma; & that Oklahoma has a water shortage. But what I dont understand is how can a Rural water district in Oklahoma 3 days prior, responsibly sell unlimited amount of water to a drilling company at 15 cents a barrel?
Hughes County Rural Water District #2 – Special Meeting – March 5, 2012 – Stuart, Oklahoma
UPDATE: The board on March 5, 2012 took action to credit the entire water bill for the Stuart School. The vote was unanimous.
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Yes, apparently Hughes County Rural Water District #2 is having another special meeting, according to the public posting I saw taped to door of their billing/collections office. The postings says that the special meeting is scheduled for March 5, 2012 at 7:30pm. This makes about the 3rd special meeting with the past 30 days. Unfortunately they are going to have it in that small office room AGAIN.
Hughes County Rural District #2 Special Meeting Notice - March 5, 2012 - Stuart, OK that was posted outside the water district's collections office on 3/2/2012
One of the items to be discussed and possible action to be taken, that got my attention, was about the Stuart School. I’m wondering what would cause this water district to discuss the quality of the water of the school to the extent that they would discuss an alternate water source for the school. The school is on the same water system as the citizens and businesses.
I’ll give updates after I learn what happened at this special meeting.
Okla. Rural Water District Jacking Up Rates to Finance Their Fight 2 Sell Bad Water
Hughes County Rural Water #2, Oklahoma - Notice of Special Meeting 2/17/2012
Its bad enough that customers of a rural water district are still on Boil Order. BUT for the rural water district to call a special meeting so they can vote to jack up the rates on the folks in light of it, is just down right cold blooded & larcenous-hearted!! Never seen nothing like this in my whole life!
NOTE: There are currently 5 board of directors of this water district. So when I mention “Bd Members” or “the board”, this does not include Ronda Talley. Talley is the newest board member elected last month by moral majority of the townspeople. So she is not part of the plot to hurt the townfolks. By the way, the entity I’m referring to in this Post is Hughes County Rural Water District #2 in Oklahoma.
Yesterday it was posted that they will have a special called meeting on Friday – Feb. 17, 2012 at 7pm to be held at 709 Roosevelt St in Stuart, to vote to jack up the water rates whereby forcing the folks to pay for the district’s:
- attorney who went to court to help the board fight against the townspeople (who signed petition to oust the board because they continuously failed to provide POTABLE WATER);
- attorney who helped defend the board from having to pay for their failure to comply w/State environmental quality laws related to their failure to provide POTABLE WATER;
- cost to complete repairs required by the State; which by the way, the board has yet to produce to the membership a complete finance report for the full accounting of all the monies spent and how it was used to directly provide of POTABLE WATER; by the way, the board’s purchase of a weed eater don’t count.
- Pending State penalties of about $8,000 for violating the law (for not providing POTABLE WATER), which the board more likely paid an attorney more than the cost of the fine itself;
- To hire an extra lawyer out of Tulsa, OK with money this district ain’t got, so that this lawyer can help fight to keep the district from paying penalties that was assessed for not providing POTABLE WATER.
This is the same board who’s negligence in providing POTABLE WATER got the only 2 eating places in town shut down because of it; and they damn near lost their business forever.
This is the same board who’s negligence in providing POTABLE WATER caused several townspeople to be unemployed when the employers could not pay them because THIS BOARD caused their employer to get shut down due to WATER CONTAMINATION.
This is the same board who could not even provide POTABLE WATER to the town’s only school; and damn near caused the school to not open in time for the children to get an education.
This is the same board who could not even provide POTABLE WATER to the town that caused the town to possibly if not in fact lose revenue in taxes from businesses that this board caused to get shut down.
This the same board who failed to provide water fit for humans which has caused people to either bathe themselves & their babies in CONTAMINATED WATER if they bathe in their own house (if located in town) or they had leave the district to do this.
AND IT GOT MUCH WORST ……….. AND I’M NOT MAKING THIS SHIT UP !
This is the same board who put the townsfolk’s livestock on death row by DEPRIVING THEM OF WATER in the scorching deadly heat.
AND THIS BOARD WANTS TO RAISE RATES ??? And STILL AIN’T GOT POTABLE WATER ??
They got to be out of there damn mind!!! Personally, I have witnessed Haitians on their own soil, albeit with bad water, got better treatment than this.
Database: Violations & Water Test Results of Rural Water Dist. #2 – Hughes County Oklahoma
We can pick & chose the clothes we wear, the car we drive & even the food we eat, but we can not chose the water. It appears to me from reading various sites of governmental entities that assist rural water utilities, that the standards are set extremely low for rural water districts. I will elaborate later on in separate posting. If these standards that seem to be designed to be set so low for rural areas, whereby allowing the rural water districts to take priority over the health of it’s rural customers, then I find it necessary to post the database links of test results and violations. Doing so may help others in research on the Oklahoma rural water district that delivers water thru its system to one’s home.
This posting is specific to Hughes County Rural Water District #2, (RWD2) State of Oklahoma, regarding database of its violations, water testing results, sampling and other useful info. This information is provided by The Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) website. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) website, the SDWIS/state version is:
Listing of links of database about Hughes County Rural Water District #2, Stuart Oklahoma, Posted on SWDIS/State website
Hughes County Rural Water District 2 – Regular Meeting – Stuart Oklahoma – 7/18/2011
The following is video log of regular meeting of Hughes County Rural Water District No. 2 that was held in Stuart Oklahoma on July 18, 2011 at the Senior Citizen Center.
Saving Rural America 