Four Corner - Texas Water Development Board

4.0 PROJECT JUSTIFICATION
4.1. EXISTING CONDITIONS
The Fort Bend County, Four Corners area is an unincorporated area within the county
that is home to approximately I, 150 primarily low income, minority residents. There
currently is no public water supply or wastewater collection and treatment. Currently,
residents obtain water from private wells. To date, some of the area's homeowners
shallow water wells have gone dry, forcing them to get water from their neighbor's
wells. Some residents use privies and other inadequate means of on-site sewage
disposal. On-site sewage disposal systems located on small lots can contribute to
groundwater well contamination. Contaminated well water by the inadequate disposal
methods poses a health hazard to area residents. It has been estimated that 90% of the
area residents buy bottled water. Additional residents moving into the Four Corners
area has stress the already inadequate resources.
4.2. DISCUSSION OF HISTORY OF HEALTH VIOLATIONS
According to Fort Bend County Environmental Health Department there have been
approximately one hundred seventy (170) complaints for septic systems in the project
area over the past ten (10) years. The locations of the complaints by street name are
listed in Table 4.1.
Table 4.1
STREET NUMBER OF COMPLAINTS
Adelfina 19
Aurora 8
Blake 1
Frank 16
Martinez 18
Old Richmond Road 13
Paul 34
Sam 24
Second 17
Severo 8
Tomasa 12
Total 170
Four Corners Area Water and Wastewater Facilities Planning Study
FINAL REPORT
Revised 2/22/99
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