Pipeline crew hits karst feature, leaving locals with brown water

Discolored water from wells near the Kinder Morgan Permian Highway Pipeline is causing distress.

Test results on the water, taken where the pipeline is about to cross the Blanco River, are expected soon from a Lower Colorado River Authority laboratory.

Once the results are received, David Baker of the Wimberley Valley Watershed Association (WVWA) and others opposed to the pipeline’s route through the fragile Texas Hill Country will have a better idea of what their next steps should be.