Posted by admin | Aug 9, 2019 | News, Oil and Gas Pipelines, Scenic Beauty
Blanco County, TX – Hill Country landowner Matthew Walsh is breathing easier today after a three-panel special commission of real estate professionals ordered pipeline developer Kinder Morgan to pay damages to his land in the amount of $233,500. This award comes...
Posted by admin | Aug 9, 2019 | Groundwater Resources, Land Conservation and Stewardship, News, Water Catchment Areas (Watershed), Water Planning, Water Resources
The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University, in collaboration with the Hays Trinity Groundwater Conservation District, has released a report evaluating a potential groundwater management zone to preserve flows to Jacob’s Well in the...
Posted by admin | Aug 5, 2019 | Land Conservation and Stewardship, News, Oil and Gas Pipelines, Scenic Beauty, Water Resources, Wildlife
The golden-cheeked warbler, an endangered songbird native to Central Texas, always seems to be flitting around controversy. It proved to be a roadblock derailing the Texas Department of Transportation’s plans to build a toll road in 2016. Prominent politicians in...
Posted by admin | Aug 5, 2019 | Groundwater Resources, News, One Water, Rainwater Harvesting, Water Conservation, Water Planning, Water Resources
Wimberley, Texas, July 29, 2019— Wimberley ISD Board of Trustees celebrated the groundbreaking ceremony for the District’s future primary campus on the corner of Ranch Road 12 and Winters Mill Parkway on Monday, July 29. The new, approximately 90,600-square-foot...
Posted by admin | Aug 5, 2019 | Drought, Groundwater Resources, News, Water Conservation, Water Planning, Water Resources
Ron Green, a scientist at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, and his team of hydro-geologists are busy collecting data on and creating a lumped parameter model for the Uvalde Pool, a major reservoir of underground water centered over central Uvalde County...