Travis County Commissioners Court
March 13, 2007
Item 3
No. 3 is to consider and take appropriate action regarding the prohibition of outdoor burning in the unnorld areas of Travis County and related matters.
>> pete baldwin, Travis County emergency management coordinator. We have provided your office yesterday an order to lift the outdoor burning ban. Night before last we received, the lowest totals I could find throughout the county, rain gauges 1.75 upward to 3 inches in some parts and even more, and we have additional rain on the way this afternoon and tonight. So with those rainfall totals in place plus the forecast to come, my recommendation is we lift the outdoor burning ban order.
>> discussion? Approval of the recommendation to lift the outdoor burn ban. That order did a whole lot of good, didn't it. Maybe wouldn't have rainedrt fle water rescues in surrounding counties, so there were some places that got upwards of 8 and 9 inches of rain, which caused
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