DeWitt County staff undecided on next steps
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An unclaimed tank towers over DeWitt County Commissioner Precinct 1 Curtis Afflerbach on private property north of State Highway 72 on Thursday, Dec. 1. -
Curtis Afflerbach looks toward the Guadalupe River that deposited a large metal tank onto land north of State Highway 72 in Cuero.
By Hans Lammeman
A massive steel tank estimated at 20 ft. long with a 12 ft. diameter floated down the Guadalupe River onto private property in Cuero after a flood earlier this year. While the abandoned tank has sat undisturbed for months, County Commissioner Precinct 1 Curtis Afflerbach said the tank could be a hazard to local infrastructure if a flood carries the tank downriver.
Afflerbach said the tank had no identifying information and a Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA) representative told him they had no responsibility to remove it.
“It has been sitting here for a good while already. I called around to a lot of the oil companies to see if anybody wanted to claim it, but of course, nobody wanted to…,” said Afflerbach while observing the tank last Thursday. “GRBA called back and said that they would not take responsibility for it, and they named several other organizations - the (Texas Corps of Engineers) and a few others - that said they did not have any responsibility for it.”
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