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July 12, 20172017-2022 Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy
Transportation
The residents of the Texoma Region love their cars, drive themselves to work, and some (30% – Figure 12) engage in relatively long (over 50 miles) commutes. “Driving alone” is the most common means to work in the region (79.6%); second is carpooling and third is working from home.
Figures 12 and 13 show the distances Texoma workers drive every day to work. What is especially interesting is the relatively large numbers, and percentages, of workers who drive more than 50 miles, especially in Fannin and Grayson counties. A majority of these drive to jobs in the Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex.
Figure 12: Commuting Distances, Texoma Region
Source: U.S. Census Bureau 2014 Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics; 2015 ACS
Figure 13: Commuting Distances, by County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau 2014 Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics; 2015 ACS
Infrastructure
Solid Waste Management
There is no materials recovery center (MRF) in Texoma or known residential or commercial material reuse warehouse/ facility in Texoma. Numerous communities in the region have residential curbside recycling and transport those recycled materials to MRFs in the Dallas/Fort- Worth Metroplex.
There are two open landfills in Texoma, both with sizable capacity to meet waste disposal for decades to come. The Texoma Area Solid Waste Authority (TASWA) was officially formed in 2000 by the cities of Denison, Gainesville, and Sherman, Texas and by Cooke and Grayson Counties to provide a solid waste disposal and recycling facility for its member cities, counties, and other communities in the Texoma region. In 2005, landfill construction was completed and the landfill took its first load of waste on April 11, 2005.
Hillside Sanitary Landfill is the only other operating landfill in Texoma, originally allowed in September 1977 and is privately owned. The facility is a Type I municipal solid waste landfill Operated by Waste Management, the nation’s largest waste service provider. It is permitted to accept non-hazardous household, commercial, industrial, and special waste, as well as construction and demolition debris. The facility does not accept hazardous or radioactive waste.
Legacy metals is a locally owned recycling business that provides a fee for service accepting all kinds metals including batteries. Commercial prices are offered to those with large quantities. Other services include residential pick-ups and on site clean-up of oil fields, construction sites and big demolition sites.
Water Management
Grayson County is the largest consumer of water of the three counties, using 24,638 acre-feet (~8 trillion gallons) in 2013, with its largest use being municipal, due to its comparatively larger population. Fannin comes in at 19,543 acre-feet (~6 trillion gallons) due to its high agricultural irrigation. Cooke uses only 8,032 acre-feet (~2 trillion gallons), shown in Table D. Projections for increasing water demand, by county, for 2020 and 2050 are shown in Figure 14. It is important to note that the pie charts communicate only the relative percentage of water demand by industry, but the actual volume is expected to increase dramatically in the same time span.
Table D: Water Usage by County, 2013
WATER USE SURVEY HISTORICAL SUMMARY ESTIMATES BY COUNTY(All volumes are in acre-feet unless otherwise noted. 1 Acre-Foot = 325,851 gallons) | |||||||
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Year | County | Population | Municipal | Mfg. | Mining | Irrigation | Livestock |
2013 | COOKE | 39,389 | 4,967 | 114 | 498 | 1,200 | 1,253 |
2013 | FANNIN | 34,526 | 4,767 | 0 | 505 | 12,757 | 1,514 |
2013 | GRAYSON | 123,115 | 17,314 | 2,049 | 52 | 4,152 | 1,071 |
2013 | STATE AVERAGE | 104,127 | 9,242 | 276 | 335 | 22,308 | 858 |
Source: Texas Water Development Board 2013
Figure 14: Projected Water Use, 2020 and 2050, by County
Source: Texas Water Development Board 2013