EnviroMentors Help the Boy Scouts “Be Prepared”

Together, they work to bring a well into compliance (Natural Outlook, March 2015)

The Boy Scout Oath begins, “On my honor, I will do my best, to do my duty to God and my country.” Rick Denison and Bob Oatman, with the Capitol Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America, learned that their country, or at least their state, had some rules they needed to follow.

In 2013, the council bought the 91-acre Smilin’ V Ranch, outside of Liberty Hill, as a facility for day camps and training. It was during one of these training sessions that Denison and Oatman discovered that they might have a problem.

Therese Baer, P.E., a volunteer with both the Boy Scouts and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s EnviroMentor program, pointed out that in the eyes of the state, the council was operating a public drinking-water system at the camp. That was quite a surprise to Oatman, who handles maintenance for the ranch. READ MORE