Sulphur River Gallery 27
Talco
From Bogata to Talco on US Highway
271 is about 10 miles. Three miles northwest of Talco, one crosses
Sulphur River. This is a view of the road bridge, looking northwest.
This is a view of Sulphur River,
looking west from the bridge.
This is a view along Texas Highway
71 east of Talco. This is the same highway that goes from Sulphur
Bluff to Hagansport to Talco to Sugar Hill to Evergreen and US
259 near its crossing with Sulphur River, shown in Galleries 4
and 5. The buzzards had apparently eaten the head off this belly-up
dead armadillo. A wandering skunk and its distinctive scent thankfully
overpowered the stench of the rotting armadillo.
Armadillo brains are such a delicacy, n'est-ce pas? Bon Appétit!
Wild pink roses grow on a fence
surrounding this oil well and adjacent petroleum storage containers.
There are quite a lot of oil wells in the Talco Oil Fields. This
well was pumping as I photographed it. Many of these wells would
be buried forever under either Marvin Nichols I or Marvin Nichols
II. Many people depend upon the oil revenues from an oil well
or two on their property to pay their bills and allow them to
remain on their otherwise unprofitable but nevertheless ancestral
family farms. Would these people be compensated for all the oil
that would be lost underneath these two proposed reservoirs? If
so, then how would such compensation be determined? And what about
possible oil seepage into the waters of these lakes, making them
toxic to fish and other waterlife? Even nowadays during extended
periods of rain, 50-60 of these low-lying oil wells are already
underwater for short periods of time, so they would certainly
be flooded by the lake(s). These are yet other reasons to oppose
these abominable reservoirs!
This is a view of Texas Highway
71 at its intersection with Titus County Road 2152 about three
miles east of Talco. If one goes left, north, for about three
miles, one reaches Sulphur River. Going right, south, for about
ten miles takes you to Mount Pleasant. From here to Sugar Hill
is about ten miles.
This is the poorly maintained county
road north to Sulphur River. The last mile before one reaches
the river bridge is in a disgraceful and even dangerous condition,
and I feared getting stuck and stranded. Fortunately, I made it
"in and out" of the bottom with no problem. I had never
been along this road before, and I was quite curious to see it.
This is an east view of Sulphur
River from the new bridge between Titus and Red River Counties.
If one travelled north on this county road from the bridge, one
would arrive at Cuthand Community about ten miles from here. The
following view of the river is looking west from the bridge. Notice
the height of the north, left, riverbank. I would estimate that
it is about 15 feet high, so I concluded that on this particular
day (31 May 2002) the river was low.
My car was parked at the south end
of the bridge. This view is looking south. All of this valuable
timber bottomland area would be flooded by Marvin Nichols I.
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