Where will the water come from?

By Ashley Sava

A potential new threat to the Trinity Aquifer, and possibly local wells, has Wimberley residents and some elected officials up in arms. They are worried that local residential wells may dry up from over pumpage by an outside company.

Electro Purification, which has offices in Houston and New Mexico according to its website, set up wells in a ranch across from the Rolling Oaks subdivision on FM 3237. The firm plans to pump more than 1.5 billion gallons of water a year from the Trinity Aquifer.