Working Hard for Bosque County
Working Hard for Bosque County
Ensuring a Clean & Stable Water Supply
Improving Health Care for Families
- Chet secured $400,000 for Goodall-Witcher Hospital to renovate facilities and add floor space to the x-ray laboratory and the emergency area, helping to accommodate growth in outpatient services.
Promoting Economic Development
- Chet secured $940,000 remove flood debris and make repairs to damaged facilities at Lake Whitney after the flooding in Central Texas last summer, including repairing camp sites, picnic sites, restrooms, swim beaches, playgrounds, boat ramps, courtesy docks as well as park water, sewer and electrical infrastructures.
- Chet secured $300,000 to upgrade Kimball Bend Park at Whitney Lake to a Class A campground. Kimball Bend Park includes existing ruins of the old town of Kimball, and an original Chisholm Trail crossing of the Brazos River. The park will provide visitors with a multitude of recreational and cultural opportunities and provide positive economic benefits for the Bosque County area.
Central Texas Dam Getting Multi-Million Dollar Face Lift
KXXV TV: Central Texas Dam Getting Multi-Million Dollar Face Lift
March 8, 2008
"Clean energy is part of America's future," said Congressman Chet Edwards in the Whitney Dam Saturday afternoon.
In an effort to continue with his push for clean and sustainable energy sources, Edwards secured roughly 4.5 million dollars in funding to revamp the aging structure.
Built in 1949, Whitney Dam has generated thousands of homes in Central Texas with hydroelectric energy.
But after being online for more than half a century, the structure is showing its age.
Clifton Fair & Rodeo Parade
Friday, July 21, 2006 – Clifton Fair & Rodeo Parade in downtown Clifton
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Walling Bend Park Saved ...
July 15, 2005
Walling Bend Park Saved — To Remain Open
Clifton Record
By DAVID ANDERSON | Associate Editor
WALLING BEND — Congressman Chet Edwards and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials met with about 30 residents in Walling Bend Park Saturday afternoon to announce that the decision had been made to keep the park open. Budget concerns had prompted the Corps to announce earlier this year that it was proposing to close a large portion of the popular park.
A group of concerned residents and citizens protested the proposed closure, however, and gathered over 1,200 signatures on petitions in less than a week, all asking that the park be kept open.
“These good citizens, in a very logical manner, expressed their concerns, and the Corps of Engineers has listened,” Edwards told the crowd, thanking many of those involved in the proposed closing’s protest. “Thanks for your productive, active work. This was democracy in action, and the system worked.”
Edwards Announced $5 Million ...
June 25, 2005
Edwards Announced $5 Million For Bosque Clean-up
Waco Tribune Herald
By MATT JOYCE |Tribune-Herald staff writer
U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards on Friday announced his goal for a Bosque River watershed clean-up effort fueled by federal funding, which until now has been directed at studying the issue.
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