Blanco and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)Process The City of Blanco has requested a permit to discharge 1.6 million gallons of treated wastewater into the Blanco River per day. This is 7 times the amount of their current permit. [Note: As a point of reference, Dripping Springs’ permit is about half this capacity, … Continue reading Update From Protect Our Blanco
The Texas Coastal Exchange (TCX), a Texas non-profit organization, is up and running and ready to hear from you if you are interested in doing something about climate change that will also help the Texas Coast. For years, they have been working on a system to help Texas coastal landowners keep their land natural so that it … Continue reading Now You Can Help the Texas Coast & Climate Change at the Same Time
By: David Baker, Executive Director of the Wimberley Valley Watershed Assoc. WIMBERLEY, TX – A new Groundwater Management Zone has been proposed to protect sustainable spring flow from Jacob’s Well into Cypress Creek, often called the lifeblood of Wimberley. A Jacob’s Well Groundwater Management Zone (JWGMZ) was recommended last month by a “Spring Flow” task force … Continue reading Jacob’s Well Groundwater Management Zone
A Shared Publication from the Hays County Master Naturalists Reassessing Your Riparian Zone Summer is a good time to observe your riparian zone and assess whether you have achieved the best balance between your needs and those of the waterway that flows past your property. Here are just some of questions you might want to … Continue reading Riparian Recovery Network News
An Alert From Our Friends at the Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance We’ve informed you in the past about various Texas developments attempting to dump their treated sewage into our Hill Country waterways, but none of those developments rival Cherryville for sheer size. When completed in a few years, Cherryville will be an actual city of 25,000 – … Continue reading Cherryville Plans to Dump Sewage into the San Marcos River