By Kim Hilsenbeck
The cross-county water fight between the Wimberley/Driftwood area and Buda heated up this week as Hays County Commissioner Will Conley used his Facebook page to call out Mayor Todd Ruge in an open letter, calling the city’s testimony at the capitol Monday “a disgrace.”
Buda’s Assistant City Manager Brian LaBorde testified against a bill, filed by State Rep. Jason Isaac (District 45-Dripping Springs), that would expand the jurisdiction of the Barton Springs/Edwards Aquifer Conservation District. Doing so would create permitting rules for Houston-based Electro Purification (EP), which currently has seven test wells in what most consider an unregulated groundwater area.
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