It will soon be finished and put into service, according to officials with Cross Timbers Water Supply.
The water tower has been embroiled in legal battles for nearly a decade. Bartonville Water Supply Corporation, a public utility separate from the town of Bartonville and predecessor of Cross Timbers, began the project in 2011.
The town blocked construction, saying the corporation didn’t have a permit to build. The corporation sued the town.
The two sides settled in 2014, clearing the way for construction. But by then, powerful nearby property owners sued the corporation, too.
Bartonville residents Susan and Dick Armey, a former Congressman and majority leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, sued in December 2012 to block construction of the water tower, which was near their property. The lawsuit made national news after word got out that Renda and Rex Tillerson, who was Exxon’s CEO at the time, and two other couples also were a party to the lawsuit.
The Tillersons dropped out of the lawsuit several months later.
At one point in the long-running dispute, which later included a homeowners association, Denton County District Judge Tiffany Haertling ordered the partially constructed tower to be torn down, but the corporation continued its appeals.
General Manager Lloyd Hanson said in a press release this week that all the remaining parties settled their differences and the tower, originally a $1.5 million project, will be completed and soon be put into service.
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