The Travis County Municipal Utility District No. 2 will hold a public hearing on a proposed tax rate for the tax year 2010.  This hearing will be held 9/1/2010, 12 noon at Armbrust & Brown, PLLC, 100 Congress Avenue, Suite 1300.  Please click here for complete details regarding this hearing.

In May of this year, the provider of our District’s water supply reported a large pool of water near a remote fire hydrant (away from any home).  It is suspected that someone was directly involved in illegally opening up the fire hydrant and draining several thousand gallons of water. This water loss costs the District and therefore you the taxpayer money!

If you observe or someone reports to you anyone misusing any of our resources, please report this to the Sheriff’s department at 512-854-9770 and to Ms. Mary Lou Sheridan/Travis County MUD #2 at 512-435-2390.  If any water loss is observed, please also contact Southwest Water Co.’s emergency number at 713-405-1750, then select option 1.

The Manor MUDs have received notification from their wholesale water provider, Metro H2O, Ltd., of a proposed increase in the wholesale water rate, which will likely increase the cost of water charged to residents.  By contract, the revised rate is required to be calculated in accordance with the rules of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) and cannot take effect until 60 days after Metro H2O has provided the Manor MUDs with all financial data necessary to evaluate the change, given the Manor MUDs 30 days to study that data, and met and conferred with the Advisory Committee established under the wholesale water contract, which is comprised of members of each of the Manor MUDs.  The Master District has engaged a rate analyst and special engineering consultant to review the proposed increase; however, at this time, the Manor MUDs and their consultants believe that Metro H2O has not provided all of the supporting financial data required by the rules of the TCEQ.  Therefore, the amount and the effective date of the proposed rate increase cannot be projected at this time.  Additional information will be provided as it becomes available. 

In order to conserve water for the community, on April 21, 2010 the District began Stage 1 voluntary water restrictions which request a 5% water reduction. In addition to the requested reduced water usage, this policy requests that landscape watering occur before 10 am or after 7 pm on designated days. The exception to this is the use of automatic cutoff handheld devices or handheld buckets. Designated days for residential customers are based on the ending number of the resident’s street address, P.O. box number, or rural postal route. Even numbers are Thursday and Sunday; odd numbers are Wednesday and Saturday. Commercial customers have Tuesday and Fridays as their designated watering days. The complete description of the District’s voluntary stage 1 water restrictions is contained in the Travis County MUD No. 2 document "Order Adopting Revised Conservation and Drought Contingency Plan", paragraph III.3.10.A and paragraphs a thru c of III.3.10.A.3. (This document is provided in the "Policies" section of this website.)

An amended Travis County MUD #2 Rate Order ("Amended Order Establishing Rates and Charges, And Adopting Rules With Respect To District Water, Waste Water and Drainage, Including Water Quality, Systems") has been approved as of March 3, 2010 and has been posted to the District's website.

The following new provision is included in this document:

No drainage water, including roof run-off water; drainage from downspouts; water from yard drains; water from fountains and ponds; water from lawn sprays, rainwater leaders, swimming pool water; or swimming pool filter backwash water may be connected or discharged to the District’s wastewater utility system. In order to protect the District’s wastewater system from inflow, all clean-outs on customer service lines must be securely capped at all times. If any clean-out is left uncapped or the cap is loosened or removed so as to potentially allow inflow into the District’s wastewater system, the District will be authorized to enter onto the responsible customer’s property to replace the cap, and the customer at the service address in question will be charged the sum of $100 for the replacement. This charge may be added to the customer’s utility bill, or the District may deduct the amount of the charge from the customer’s security deposit or any other amounts held by the District and may further require that the customer replenish the deposit by an equivalent amount.  Missing and broken clean out cap examples are viewable in the picture gallery.

The Travis County Municipal Utility District # 2 website is now available to the general public.  Features of the website include District news, District events, FAQs, a picture gallery with identifiers of the ShadowGlen subdivision, and a home page with a picture of the ShadowGlen monument sign entrance in the center section.  Items of interest which appear include pictures of the District's wastewater facility and selected landmarks within the ShadowGlen subdivision.

The intention of the website is provide all information needed to fully describe the complete functionality of the district along with its rules and regulations.  The website provides information regarding establishing service, paying bills, details of how the resident is charged for the services provide, et cetera.  If the District resident so chooses, the posting of a news item (if deemed of sufficient importance by the webmaster), will result in an email with a link that the resident may select to view the news article.  The board minutes and agendas are available ordered by date with PDF document links.  You may email the webmaster at jmlaptop@austin.rr.com for comments/suggestions/questions.