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WTCPUA mulls Hamilton Pool Road water quality, The Backyard

WTCPUA mulls Hamilton Pool Road water quality, The Backyard

by admin | Apr 24, 2018 | News, Water Quality

Within a span of 24 hours, West Travis County Public Utility Agency board members hosted a town hall meeting, announced improvements slated for the coming year, approved water quality protections for the Hamilton Pool Road corridor and agreed to take a hard stance on...
Vulcan and TCEQ take heat at public hearing on concrete plant permit

Vulcan and TCEQ take heat at public hearing on concrete plant permit

by admin | Apr 23, 2018 | Aggregate Production Operations, News

Vulcan Materials has come under intense public criticism for its plan to open a concrete batch plant near a school in Kendall County, but The complaints came to a head last week at the agency’s public hearing on the requested permit for the plant, the final chance for...
Texas is making billions from oil and gas drilling, but counties say rural roads are being destroyed

Texas is making billions from oil and gas drilling, but counties say rural roads are being destroyed

by admin | Apr 20, 2018 | News

Texas leads the nation in both oil and natural gas production. In the 2017 budget year, the oil production tax brought the state more than $2 billion in revenue, while the natural gas production tax brought in a little less than $1 billion. But none of that tax money...
Hill Country groups wanting more local land-use control

Hill Country groups wanting more local land-use control

by admin | Apr 20, 2018 | County Authority, News, Regional Planning

As the second fastest-growing county in the country according to U.S. Census Bureau data, Comal County, like others in the Hill Country, is coming face to face with industries that want to set up shop on land that is becoming more and more precious. Annalisa Peace,...
New Braunfels Utilities seeks community support for Headwaters project

New Braunfels Utilities seeks community support for Headwaters project

by admin | Apr 17, 2018 | News

Along the fault line that separates the Texas Hill Country from the Texas Coastal Plain, the largest freshwater spring system in Texas emerges from the ground in New Braunfels. New Braunfels Utility owns the 16-acre spot in the northwest part of town where the spring...
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