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Old 10-08-2009, 09:49 PM
 
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I see on the map where we are looking to purchase, we are very close to a soil conservation service site. So I'm a city slicker and have no idea what this means even when I google it....Is this a fancy word for city dump??! If not would this be a bad thing to live close to?
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Old 10-08-2009, 11:07 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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Maybe you can info on this site:
Home Page | Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board

It's definitely NOT a garbage dump.
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Old 10-09-2009, 10:35 AM
 
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Thanks for the link. I was reading this last night. I still can't tell if this is a good thing to live next to or not.

Where I am from we have Water Reclamation Sites but these are water/sewage plants. Anyone from the Chicago area know the lovely smell in Stickney, IL?? LOL!!!
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Old 10-09-2009, 10:42 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Maybe you can info on this site:
Home Page | Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board

It's definitely NOT a garbage dump.
I could not find anything on that website that explained what a "soil conservation service site" is, but perhaps the OP could call the county regional office and find out. Regional Office Service Areas | Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board
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Old 12-05-2009, 12:51 PM
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I am doing a research paper on Water Management. I am including a portion about Soil Conservation Service Sites. I am having trouble finding information about them myself. I do know that they are reservoirs built to prevent soil erosion. There are a total of 11 of them in Hays County alone. I think they started in the they late thirties or early fourties. As far as public access to the sites. I am not sure if all of them are public or not. I do know that if the State stocks the body of water with fish the land owner is required to allow public access. I grew up fishing many of these lakes and they are very nice small bodies of water.
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Old 12-05-2009, 01:39 PM
 
Location: Roswell, GA
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Try the county offices of the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), which was known as the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) until sometime in the early 1990s (I think). The NRCS is an agency of the US Department of Agriculture, started during the Great Depression to help address the problem of soil loss in farming areas through erosion. They typically have offices in most counties and work in concert with state-funded conservation districts at the county level to implement programs and services in the district.

You can find USDA Service Centers here.

My father was a career SCS/NRCS employee in Arkansas, ending up as a district conservationist (in charge of a county-level office) for the last decade or so before he retired, and my sister worked as an NRCS technician for a few years right out of college.
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Old 06-28-2013, 08:07 PM
 
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Exclamation Is Hwy 380 Slight East of Coit in Prestwyck Subdivision in McKinney a Good Location?

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I see on the map where we are looking to purchase, we are very close to a soil conservation service site. So I'm a city slicker and have no idea what this means even when I google it....Is this a fancy word for city dump??! If not would this be a bad thing to live close to?
The Google Map shows the Prestwyck Subdivision in McKinney as slightly East of Coit on Hwy. 380.
There are two Soil Conservation Service Sites. What on earth are these?

*** Do Soil Conservation Service Sites bring done Property values? ***

Do they create odors or pollution?

Is this a MUD District in the 380 & Coit area?
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Old 06-28-2013, 08:24 PM
 
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Default Soil Con. sites.

I live in Cedar Park and there are some of these around me. Don't know where I found the info, but I want to hike them. They are private land and the owners get paid not to plant on the land.
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Old 08-14-2014, 09:05 PM
 
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I grew up in East Texas and we have hundreds of them around and 2 on our land. They're basically small lakes with large dirt dams built by state on private land. This was done pre WW II and right after for water reserves during emergencies as we did not have many lakes at that time. They're great to fish and hunt around however this is private land not state. You MUST contact the land owner for permission to use or you would be trespassing an more than likely shot.
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Old 08-16-2014, 09:14 AM
 
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I asked the same question about two years ago because there is a nice piece of land that borders old 183 north of Avery Ranch. Back in the past the owner, it is private land, used to let people fish and boat on it. At some time he closed it to the public because of trash left behind. I stopped hiking it when I found out about it being private land.
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