BS/EACD board expands jurisdiction

By Kara Nuzback

At its Thursday meeting, the Barton Springs/Edwards Aquifer Conservation District board of directors voted unanimously to support proposed legislation that would expand the district’s territory and give the board authority over part of an unregulated area where water supply company Electro Purification has set up shop.

Electro Purification acquired three contracts for water supply in an unregulated spot in the Trinity Aquifer’s Cow Creek Formation, just outside the lines of the Barton Springs District, Hays Trinity Groundwater Conservation District and Plum Creek Conservation District.