Posted by Karen Ford | Aug 29, 2018 | News, Regional Planning
The on-again, off-again Wimberley wastewater treatment plant is off again while the City Council revisits a plan to outsource to a private utility company. Emotions are running high in the Hays County town of about 3,000, divided over an issue that’s been the subject...
Posted by Karen Ford | Aug 29, 2018 | Drought, News, Water Conservation
Water restrictions are in effect starting Monday in Austin, the first time in two years Austin Water has cut back the number of hours residents can water their lawns. Lake Travis and Lake Buchanan have dipped below a combined 1.4 million feet of water, triggering the...
Posted by Karen Ford | Aug 29, 2018 | Water Planning
On Aug. 24, 2017, we all watched the radar screen on the news as the storm gained energy in the Gulf of Mexico and began making its way toward the Texas coast. No one understood the unprecedented rainfall that was about to hit portions of Texas and Louisiana over the...
Posted by Karen Ford | Aug 29, 2018 | News, Regional Planning, Water Resources
Bexar County could soon join the fray in a legal battle over water rights that highlights the conflict between the fast-growing cities and suburbs around San Antonio and agricultural areas that also depend on the Edwards Aquifer. On Friday, Medina County Judge Chris...
Posted by Karen Ford | Aug 29, 2018 | County Authority, Land Stewardship, News, Planning and Development
In early 2017, homeowners in Sandy Harbor, a waterfront community in the Highland Lakes chain where Lake Lyndon B. Johnson meets the mouth of Sandy Creek, called Kevin Collier about a problem: sand. There was so much of it that it was preventing some of them from...
Posted by admin | Aug 22, 2018 | Land Conservation and Stewardship, Legislature and Regulation, Water Resources
“I wish that everybody who wanted to build an actual, physical wall could come and see this place first, because I think if they came and saw it and realized what the wall was going through and what it would do would have a profound impact on their way of...
