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Texas Water Challenges film series premiers

Texas Water Challenges film series premiers

by admin | Feb 16, 2018 | Groundwater Resources, News, Water Conservation, Water Planning

The Texas Water Roundtable has premiered the short film series, Texas Water Challenges. Five ten-minute films on contemporary water issues impacting Texas – water pricing and economics, new water, surface/groundwater coordination, water education, and Texas...
Keep sewage out of Hill Country creeks

Keep sewage out of Hill Country creeks

by admin | Feb 7, 2018 | Groundwater Resources, News, Water Catchment Areas (Watershed)

Dripping Springs is a good 90-minute drive to the north of San Antonio, but the flow of water connects this region even as water fights divide it. In this case, Dripping Springs is pursuing a permit that would allow it to discharge up to a million gallons of treated...
Uvalde joins water lawsuit against San Antonio’s Edwards Aquifer Authority

Uvalde joins water lawsuit against San Antonio’s Edwards Aquifer Authority

by admin | Feb 7, 2018 | Groundwater Resources, News

The city of Uvalde has joined the Uvalde County Underground Water Conservation District and other plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the Edwards Aquifer Authority. The lawsuit seeks to protect residents and businesses in the Uvalde County area from what plaintiffs...
Vulcan encounters opposition to proposed quarry in Comal County

Vulcan encounters opposition to proposed quarry in Comal County

by admin | Feb 5, 2018 | Aggregate Production Operations, News

Vulcan Materials Co. recently filed permit requests to put a limestone quarry on 1,500 acres of land along Highway 46 and FM 3009 in Comal County, Texas, but neighbors have organized some resistance, News 4 San Antonio reports. “The ideal would be that it would not be...
Study: Deadly Wimberley floods rooted in weather patterns, intensified by development

Study: Deadly Wimberley floods rooted in weather patterns, intensified by development

by admin | Feb 5, 2018 | News

The 40-foot wall of water that gushed down the Blanco River in May 2015, wiping out parts of Wimberley and killing more than a dozen people, was largely a natural phenomenon. But a new study shows that development along the waterway made its impact on the fast-growing...
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