Group to host forum on impact of EP water permit

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Exsar.Arguello on June 26, 2019

New information on the potential impact of a Houston-based company’s plan to pump one billion gallons of water per year from the Trinity Aquifer will be the subject of an upcoming forum.

Hosted by the Trinity Edwards Springs Protection Association (TESPA), the forum is in light of a contentious contested case hearing involving Electro Purification (EP) and TESPA and other Hays County landowners. EP applied with the Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer Conservation District in 2017 for the produ...

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