Posted by Leah Cuddeback | Jan 9, 2024 | Community, Drought, Groundwater Resources, Linked Stories, News, Water Catchment Areas (Watershed), Water Conservation, Water Planning, Water Resources
Aqua Texas, a water utility company that services more than 3,000 customers in Hays County, filed a federal lawsuit late last month against the Hays Trinity Groundwater Conservation District alleging unequal treatment following fines imposed for overpumping. The...
Posted by Leah Cuddeback | Jan 9, 2024 | Community, Drought, Groundwater Resources, News, Regional Planning, Water Conservation, Water Planning, Water Resources
Groundwater is the only source of drinking water for the majority of western Hays County — that’s tens of thousands of residents. AQUA Texas is responsible for providing adequate and continuous water to its ratepayers. In order to protect the rights of all...
Posted by Leah Cuddeback | Jan 4, 2024 | Aggregate Production Operations, Community, News
Opponents of a proposed quarry in Comal County are forming a new plan to fight the project after losing their latest effort to block the facility’s air quality permit. Since 2017, the Preserve Our Hill Country Environment Foundation and other advocates have been...
Posted by Leah Cuddeback | Jan 4, 2024 | Aggregate Production Operations, News
Months after Garden Ridge officials shot down a plans for a controversial concrete plant, the plant’s owners have quietly picked a new site for it — one that’s less than half a mile away, but is outside the Comal County city’s jurisdiction. Read more from Liz Teitz...
Posted by Leah Cuddeback | Jan 4, 2024 | HCA in the News, News, Texas Hill Country Conservation Network
New plan aims to protect Hill Country’s natural resources The Hill Country Land, Water, Sky and Natural Infrastructure Plan, released by the Texas Hill Country Conservation Network, or THCCN, is a plan to protect natural infrastructure that brings environmental,...
Posted by Leah Cuddeback | Jan 1, 2024 | Drought, Linked Stories, News, Water Conservation, Water Resources
The irony was not lost on David Way. While he methodically worked to save an oak tree in his front yard by using a soaker hose on his designated watering day, water, on a few occasions, was gushing from a water tower just feet away from his western Travis County home....
