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...

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...

By Moses Leos III Citizens packed the Dripping Springs Water Supply Corporation meeting Monday to relay concerns about the possible effects on DSWSC wells if the city’s proposed discharge permit of treated effluent is approved. The board, however, opted not to place an item on next month’s agenda to...

By Moses Leos III Roughly a week after the Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer Conservation District (BSEACD) formally opposed Dripping Springs’ proposed discharge permit, the Hays Trinity Groundwater Conservation District (HTGCD) Thursday followed suit. By a 4-1 vote, the HTGCD made a resolution opposin...