by Leah Cuddeback | Aug 16, 2022 | Community, News, Planning and Development, Water Conservation, Water Planning, Water Quality, Water Resources
The Texas Water Development Board is currently taking comment on part of the $2.9 billion coming to Texas’ water infrastructure through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act funding. That will be spread over the next 5 years. The comment period is for $750...
by Leah Cuddeback | Jul 27, 2022 | Conservation Easements, Groundwater Resources, Land Conservation and Stewardship, Land Stewardship, News, Planning and Development, Water Catchment Areas (Watershed), Water Planning, Water Resources
In this episode of KSAT Explains, Meteorologists Sarah Spivey and Justin Horne take us inside Honey Creek Cave for a swim and to highlight how it now coexists with the fast-growing Comal County. Watch the video from KSAT here.
by Leah Cuddeback | Jul 25, 2022 | Drought, Groundwater Resources, News, Planning and Development, Regional Planning, Water Catchment Areas (Watershed), Water Conservation, Water Planning, Water Resources
Texas’ strategy of planning for a repeat of the 1950s drought is no longer enough. While historic evidence identifies droughts that were longer and more severe than the Drought of Record, contemporary data points to a likely future of increasing drought severity....
by Leah Cuddeback | Jul 25, 2022 | Community, Economics of Sound Planning, Groundwater Resources, News, Planning and Development, Regional Planning, Water Planning, Water Resources
Laurel Porter knows her corner of Northwest Bexar County so well she could draw a map of it with her eyes closed. Just south of Boerne, sloping valleys and chalky canyons line twisting roads that pass by the cities of Grey Forest, Helotes and Fair Oaks Ranch. Since...
by Leah Cuddeback | Jul 25, 2022 | Drought, Groundwater Resources, News, Water Catchment Areas (Watershed), Water Conservation, Water Planning, Water Quality, Water Resources
A Texas river expert says river flows across the state this summer are headed into the record books for being among the lowest ever, especially if rain does not fall soon. Still, businesses that rely on the Guadalupe and Comal Rivers have managed to float past serious...
by Leah Cuddeback | Jul 25, 2022 | Economics of Sound Planning, Low Impact & Sustainable Development, News, Planning and Development, Regional Planning, Uncategorized, Water Catchment Areas (Watershed), Water Planning, Water Resources
Texas A&M University at Galveston Professor Sam Brody testified in a recent U.S. Senate hearing on reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), urging the committee to not only reauthorize the program, but expand it using existing sources,...
