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husband had recently died. After being friends for a while, a complete recycle of the water--from municipal, through
they realized that maybe they didn't want to live alone for agriculture, to recreation, back to municipal. It is the largest
the rest of their lives, so they married in 2017, creating a large public outdoor recreation project using reclaimed water in the
extended family with six children, 12 grandchildren, 3 great- U.S.
grandchildren (with another on the way), scattered across
several states. Jim and Charlotte lived in Ransom Canyon Achieving this involved a lot of thinking outside the box to
until 2024, when he decided that maintaining the home was get funding and to clean out Yellow House Canyon, which
more than he wanted to deal with, and they moved to Carillon over the years had become somewhat of a dumping ground.
Senior Living Community, where he is happily involved With his background in both Civil Engineering and Landscape
with the Creative Writing group, creating watercolors, and Architecture, the combination of logic and creativity, and not
landscaping his yard. realizing limitations, he helped the city accomplish it. Leprino
Foods has built a large facility east of Lubbock which will be
During the 31 years that Jim worked for the City of Lubbock, fully functional in 2025 creating cheeses. They will not only
he accomplished a lot, the most extensive of which is The be using municipal water, but also will have a large runoff
Canyon Lakes Project, a marvelous multi-level reuse of water of water which they will treat and return to what was called
which is so precious in this area. Municipal water is used by Lake 7. That lake has been renamed Jim Bertram Lake, and the
residences and businesses, then it is treated and sprayed onto Canyon Lakes Project is now the Jim Bertram Lake System—a
agricultural fields southeast of town. These fields act as a small token of the city’s gratitude to Jim Bertram: Director of
filter, and the water seeps through the ground into an artificial Planning 1970-1982, Assistant City Manager for Development
aquifer. From there it is pumped into the lakes making up Services 1983-1993, and Director of Strategic Planning 1993-
the Canyon Lakes Project where it is enjoyed for recreational 2001.
use. There are plans to further treat the water from the lakes
and return it to the municipal water system, making this

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