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drainage district. However, a district of this size is not organized 

 without considerable difficulty and delay; therefore the large basin 

 has been divided into smaller units, each independent of the others 

 except for the cooperation necessary to improve the main water- 

 course. It may possibly be expedient to form one large organiza- 

 tion embracing the smaller districts just to enlarge Taylors Bayou. 



All of the land drained into Hillebrant Bayou is formed into one 

 district. No. 10. None of the areas drained by Bayou Din, Willow 

 Marsh, and Pivitot Bayou may properly be treated as a separate 

 unit, because each is dependent upon the lower end of Hillebrant 

 Bayou for outlet and should share in the cost of cleaning and enlarg- 

 ing that bayou. All the land within the county limits that is drained 

 by Taylors Bayou and the North Fork above their junction should 

 have been included in district No. 11; but since a part of district 

 No. 3, which already had been organized and had constructed 

 ditches, is drained into the upper end of Taylors Bayou, and since a 

 large area in Liberty County is drained into the North Fork by way 

 of Pignut Gully, it is impracticable to form a perfect drainage unit 

 in this instance. However, all of the land in that part of the county 

 which is not included in district No. 3 is formed into a drainage dis- 

 trict, and the main ditches are planned in the best possible way under 

 the circumstances. Only part of district No. 20 can be drained into 

 Taylors Bayou; the remainder must have an outlet eastward into 

 Salt Bayou. Districts Nos. 25 and 28 have no outlets into existing 

 watercourses; their drainage should be carried southward to the 

 Intercoastal Canal. 



PUMPING DISTRICTS. 



That part of the county which can not be drained by gravity has 

 been divided into convenient pumping units, and will be considered 

 as districts Nos. 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 

 27, 29, 30, 31, and 32. The marshes bordering on the Neches River 

 were divided into such units that each would be entirely independent 

 of all others, the bluff and the river front forming the complete 

 boundaries of each. 



District No, 8 is a small area between Beaumont and the Neches 

 River, southeast of the city. About half of the district is liigli land 

 and tlie njmainder Is river marsh. Because the Neches River is 

 being shortened by several cut-offs at this point, it is deemed best 

 not to y)resent phms for drainag<; at this time. Tlie newly gi-a(hMl 

 Mansfield F(!rry road across the marsh forms an excellent levcio be- 

 tween this district and No, 9. Districts Nos. 13, 14, and 10 can be 

 only j)artiully drained hy gravity; the south end of district No. 13 

 is v(iry low and suhjcsct to fre(iu(uit overflow. In order to insure 



