I feel like the community concern regarding the Horseshoe Ridge RV Park planned for the west side of RR 12 roughly between the intersections of RR 12 with Old Oaks Ranch Rd. and Gold’s Rd has been summarily dismissed. How can there be so little coverage of a project expected to be as densely populated (201 RV tenants on 30 acres) as this is to be?
That the water source for this project will come from the Lower Trinity is all fine and well, but the impervious cover needed for this RV park will be at least 40% of the 30 acres. That is 12.4 acres of pavement (540,000 sq ft). This will be an artificial cap in an essential recharge zone for the already threatened Jacob’s Well. Furthermore, the park plans call for a stormwater collection basin sized for only 1” of rain. If, God willing, we see rain again, chances are there will be more that an inch. The inadequately designed stormwater collection basin will inevitably lead to flooding over Gold’s Road and the residents adjacent to the RV property. And, that 12.4 acres of pavement will contribute mightily to runoff washing out Gold’s
Road.
Then there is the matter of sewage. The developer intends the park to accommodate 200 RVs. That’s a lot of sewage, a lot of wastewater. The plans that I have seen project 9,240 gallons per day of wastewater per the developer’s estimate. Is this a realistic figure? How is this to be managed? Monitored? Will this sewage migrate into the Middle Trinity Aquifer? That’s the aquifer that a vast number of Hays County wells tap for our daily drinking water. I, for one, am extremely uneasy with the question of sewage at this heavily populated RV park.
Does Hays County and/or TXDOT have plans for a sizeable volume of slow-moving traffic turning off of and on to RR 12?
Is this RV parking lot what the citizens of the Wimberley Valley want as a north gateway to the Wimberley Valley?
I exhort my neighbors to voice their concerns. To paraphrase the song we all know, “They paved paradise and put up an RV park…”
Mike Sullivan
