To mitigate stress on Buda’s water supply during the dry summer months, the city is looking into building a pilot well for an Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) system.
The proposed ASR project would inject groundwater into the Trinity Aquifer and store it for later use. A pilot well would be drilled and tested prior to building the ASR system, to make sure the well site would be viable.
At a July 3 city council meeting, the city’s Water Resources Coordinator, Blake Neffendorf, said the ASR would be advantageous to the city in two cases.
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