Update on town of Robert Lee

You may remember that the Coke County town of Robert Lee has been facing severe drought conditions and a critically low water supply. The town of Bronte, which is 12 miles away from Robert Lee and gets its water from Oak Creek Reservoir, has agreed to sell some of its extra water to Robert Lee, which will be able to pump it into town via a 10-inch pipe at a rate of 200,000 gallons of water a day.

This isn't really a story about a ghost town, but it does illustrate the latest chapter in Robert Lee's fight to avoid joining the roster of Texas ghost towns. Our best wishes go out to the townspeople of Bronte and Robert Lee in these trying times.

West Texas town of Robert Lee in danger of running out of water

Of all the factors that can transform a once-thriving community into a ghost town, there probably isn't anything that can do it faster than lack of water. Robert Lee, the county seat of Coke County, is facing an increasingly uncertain future precisely because its once-plentiful supply of water is quickly disappearing.

You can read more about it in this Washington Post article.

Please keep the folks of Robert Lee in your thoughts and prayers.