Guadalupe Blanco River Authority Waterline Project (Texas 130) Alert: Information for Caldwell County Landowners

In this video, Landowner Rights Attorney Philip Hundl provides Caldwell County landowners with information regarding the Guadalupe Blanco River Authority Waterline Project (also known as the GBRA Texas 130 Water Supply Project). If you’re impacted by this or any other pipeline project, you should get the help of a knowledgeable lawyer to guide you through the condemnation process. Call Philip at 800-266-4870 or text the office at 979-320-9320. Our offices are in Wharton County and we help landowners all over Texas.

Summary of Guadalupe Blanco River Authority Waterline Project (Texas 130) Alert Video

 Hi, Phil Hundl here with a waterline project alert. This is the GBRA or Guadalupe Blanco River Authority Waterline Project. This has come to our attention from landowners in Caldwell County. This project is referred to by the Guadalupe Blanco River Authority as the GBRA Texas 130 water supply project.

They are seeking easements on the landowner’s property. The easements we are seeing are approximately 30 foot wide. The permanent easement area, along with a temporary workspace that looks like the temporary workspace is approximately 30 to 15 foot wide.  And the permanent easement area, as we mentioned, they’re 30 foot wide.

So, if you are a landowner in Caldwell County and you are contacted by this time, you probably have received your initial offer, and also a final offer packet, along with an appraisal. It’s extremely important that you visit with an attorney that can walk you through what that final offer packet means and how to interpret the appraisal and the way that the Condemnor’s appraiser, and in this situation or this circumstance, it’s CBRE, the one that the appraisal firm that is doing these appraisals for these final offer packets. And so your attorney can walk you through how to understand that and evaluate that final offer packet or final offer amount.

And also, what impact this easement will have on your property? Where it’s located on your property? How it burdens your property? How it reduces the remainder of your property in such a way? And, also what are the terms and conditions of their proposed easement agreement that will ultimately make its way into a petition probably?

But it’s always important to compare the petition terms, the easement they’re seeking with the actual easement that they’re proposing right now, the easement document. And so you want to have a very good understanding of exactly what they’re seeking on your property. What types of above-ground appurtenances are allowed? What type of access is allowed through the rest of your property to get to their easement area?

So, many things that you need to be familiar with, and be aware of. And so once again want to bring this to your attention, Guadalupe Blanco River Authority, the GBRA Texas 130 Water Supply Project.