The Trinidad City Council will consider selling City Lake in an effort to finance the construction of a pipeline from the Cedar Creek Lake Dam to supply water to the city.

The water from Cedar Creek Lake Dam would be taken from wells drilled at the dam to relieve water leakage, according to The News of Athens and Malakoff. There are about 70 wells in operation at the dam that divert water to collecting tanks.

The water from the wells is considered to be of better quality than the water fed from the lake by creeks to City Lake.

Trinidad officials tout the proposed operation as a way to provide the city with "good clean water" that would require minimal treatment for consumer use.

Officials also noted that a "private party" had expressed interest in purchasing City Lake, which is fed from creeks from Cedar Creek Lake, and had promised to give the city emergency access to it if necessary, according to the news report by Russell Slaton.

Trinidad was originally allotted 1,000 acre-feet of water annually by the Tarrant Regional Water District when the reservoir was built in the mid-1960s, but the city now only owns 300 acre-feet because of sales of the rights.

East Cedar Creek Fresh Water Supply District recently proposed the purchase of another 100 acre-feet of water, but the council tabled the agenda item.

City Lake is now used for recreational purposes as well as Trinidad's main water source.