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LEVELLAND HISTORY

Lake Meredith has recovered in recent years but still fortunate because earlier citizens were willing to look
struggles with water quality. In fiscal year 2025, CRMWA unreasonable. They were willing to be criticized for
delivered 65,572 acre-feet to member cities, with 51,863 thinking too far ahead. They were willing to invest in
acre-feet coming from the wellfield and 13,708 from the a river they could not see, in a lake they would not live
lake. Its water-right holdings now exceed 456,000 acres in near, and in a pipeline that must have sounded to some
Roberts County and adjacent areas. Together with Lake like overbuilt fantasy. They continued to invest in water
Meredith, those rights are expected to provide water for rights and well fields to continue the vision. They never
at least a century and maybe more. stopped planning.
The story is still being written. CRMWA continues to add Now, with the regional water picture far more uncertain
wells to offset the gradual decline in well capacity, while than it once appeared, that “fantasy” looks a lot like
setting aside capital-improvement reserves to maintain wisdom.
aging infrastructure. Simultaneously, work continues on
the next ambitious project, CRMWA II, a proposed 70- So, the proper emotion for Levelland’s CRMWA story is
mile pipeline designed to expand groundwater delivery not just pride, though pride is earned. It is also humility.
farther into the well field. In other words, CRMWA’s We are living on our ancestors’ foresight. We are drinking
leaders today understand the same thing Levelland’s the result of their courage. Long before water insecurity
voters grasped in 1953: hope is not a water policy. became an everyday conversation, Levelland helped
Maintenance is. Expansion is. Planning is. choose preparation over complacency.

That may be the deepest lesson in this history. That choice still flows through the city every day.
Levelland was fortunate—but not by accident. It was

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