The Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer Conservation District (BSEACD) water conservation period began Monday and extends through the end of September, according to a press release. The five month period is the time when water use is at its peak, according to district officials.   Since January 2016, gro...

The fight over Hays County groundwater is bubbling once again after legislation in the 85th Texas Legislature has drawn the ire of a local state representative.     At the center of the controversy is the 5,000-acre Needmore Ranch, located near Wimberley   and owned by south Texas beer distributor G...

Negotiations continued after an executive session during Thursday’s Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer Conservation District (BSEACD) meeting on Dripping Springs’ request to discharge treated effluent into the Onion Creek Watershed. The BSEACD reviewed with its attorney the draft settlement prepared by ...

. Stephen’s Episcopal Church and School was designated the 2016 Permittee of the Year by the Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer Conservation District last week. As a groundwater user, the church/school was directly affected by the passage of   Texas House Bill 3405 and the district’s annexation of the s...

Debate raged during a public meeting at Dripping Springs Ranch Park Nov. 10 over the city of Dripping Springs’ proposed discharge permit application to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). The meeting, requested by Texas State Representative Jason Isaac, gave residents the chance to...

By Logan McCullough The expansion of the Barton Springs/Edwards Aquifer Conservation District (BSEACD) to extend representation to a previously unregulated area of Hays County forced the redistricting of new precinct boundaries.   Although BSEACD was five years away from a planned redistricting, whe...

Staff report    Elections for the Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer Conservation District Board of Directors were cancelled due to a lack of opposition.   According to a press release, the board elected Sept. 7 to cancel the November director elections after the three existing candidates up for electio...

Staff report   A Houston-based water firm that applied for a permit with the Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer Conservation District (BSEACD) to obtain water from the Trinity Aquifer will soon conduct an aquifer test. According to a BSEACD release, Electro Purification (EP) has submitted an aquifer tes...

By Samantha Smith For roughly two hours Tuesday, the Hays County Commissioners Court debated the need to construct a multi-port monitoring well to study groundwater within the Trinity and Edwards aquifers.  By a 4-1 vote, commissioners entered into an interlocal agreement with the Barton Springs Edw...

By Moses Leos III Buda last week became the latest entity to pass a resolution outlining its concerns over Dripping Springs’ proposed permit to discharge treated effluent into Walnut Springs, a tributary of Onion Creek.  The Buda City Council July 19 adopted a resolution supporting the Barton Spring...