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Subsequent Events [Text Block] | Subsequent Event CLWSC completed its acquisition of the Deer Creek Ranch Water Co., LLC’s water system on July 2, 2018 for a purchase price of $2,700. In 2017, CLWSC entered into an agreement to purchase the water system assets. Deer Creek Ranch includes approximately 750 service connections over an area of 1,191 acres in the Texas Hill Country on the rapidly growing western fringe of the Austin metropolitan area, about 40 miles south of CLWSC’s operating area of New Braunfels.

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