Heard museum prepares for court fight
February 26, 2010
The Dallas Morning News McKinney Blog
Ed Housewright/Reporter
The Heard and the North Texas Municipal Water District are still battling over the district's plans to install a sewer line under the museum property.
The Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary offered an alternate route across its 289-acre site. But the water district rejected it.
"Efforts to resolve the dispute ... have failed," the museum says in a news release. "The lawsuit will be set for trial."
The museum and wildlife sanctuary, which opened in 1967, draws more than 100,000 visitors a year.
It fears the sewer line will damage native prairie grassland and wetlands.
The water district says the line poses no environmental damage.
link to the post on The Dallas Morning News McKinney Blog....
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The Observer Comments:
Good grief...
"The water district says the line poses no environmental damage"
Wow! So the Water District is telling the Wildlife Sanctuary how to protect its habitat.
I assume that now The Heard's environmentalists will feel free to tell the NTMWD how to maintain water pressure.
For more coverage on this issue, see:
Eco-terrorism: Collin County style, CCO, December, 2009
Heard museum worried about sewer line planned on property, The Dallas Morning News, December 20, 2009
Panel sides with water district on plans to run sewer line under McKinney's Heard museum, The Dallas Morning News, December 16, 2009
Heard museum in McKinney battles water district over sewer line, The Dallas Morning News, October 29, 2009
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