reat news, landowners and well owners have been heard by both the Senate and the House on an identical bill that would greatly assist long-term with much of our issue with sewage effluent discharges into our pristine Texas Hill Country creeks and waterways that feed our storage of drinking water in ...

All we ever hear from Dripping Springs is that its intentions are not to discharge sewage effluent into Onion Creek with the discharge permit they seek. I’m sure they are telling you the same thing, that you should resolve to support this because “with all this beneficial reuse we’re getting signed ...

by Wes Pitts ripping Springs can provide the wastewater capacity this community needs with a no-discharge solution. We can protect our drinking water, and serve growth responsibly. The City is currently pursuing authorization to discharge 995k gallons per day (gpd) of treated sewage into Onion Creek...

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...

Guest column by Wes Pitts   I n a recent op-ed, Patrick Rose applauded the decision by the city of Dripping Springs to expand the South Regional Wastewater Treatment System, a move to keep the city from running out of wastewater capacity by 2017. No one should fault the city for taking steps to prev...