A nonprofit organization’s attempt to revive plans for a city-owned wastewater facility in Wimberley could hang on a proposed $823,000 grant.
Friends of Blue Hole (FoBH), a nonprofit organization created to protect the Blue Hole Regional Park, is offering more than $800,000 to Wimberley city officials in hopes of saving plans for a city-owned plant. FoBH officials hope the proposed donation is enough to persuade city leaders to forgo plans for a wastewater facility operated by Aqua Texas, a third-party provider.
Current plans for the Aqua-Texas owned plant don’t include irrigation to Blue Hole park, which is needed to water the soccer fields and surrounding landscape. The city-owned facility, as outlined in the Blue Hole Master Plan, included the irrigation for the park. That plan, however, was scrapped by city officials in late 2018.
