Cities across Texas are dumping wastewater in our rivers and the effects are obvious. In 2018, the City of Blanco requested a permit from TCEQ to discharge 1.6 million gallons of treated wastewater daily into the Blanco River. If approved by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), this would be a 7 fold increase … Continue reading Wastewater Woes
A disturbing report published by the Texas Tribune on April 17 demonstrates the colossal effect that one’s actions and negligence can have on their neighbors downstream, and highlights the absolute necessity to be hyper vigilant about what we introduce to our waterways. The Tribune’s article details the upsetting story of a family who lives on … Continue reading Skull Creek Disaster Exposes Inadequate Regard for Texas Water
Hays County will be continuing countywide feral hog management efforts in 2019 after receiving a $13,100 grant from Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, Wildlife Services. The Hays County program will include a feral hog workshop and three webinars, aerial control services, a damage assessment and free trapping equipment for a limited number of local participants. … Continue reading Feral Hog Management Program to Continue in Hays County
KYLE, Texas, April 22, 2019 – The consistent failure of the Texas Railroad Commission to oversee the routing of oil and gas pipelines leaves Texans vulnerable to abuse, landowners and officials from the City of Kyle and Hays County said today. A coalition of landowners, joined by the City of Kyle and Hays County, today … Continue reading Hays County, City of Kyle join lawsuit against Kinder Morgan, Texas Railroad Commission
By: Thom Woodruff – The World Poet WHEN THE CITY SQUEEZES ME TOO TIGHT I seek access to water as respite, Springs, wells, rivers, creeks, waterfalls All are medicinal in their ways of accessing space and slowing time and sharing their liquidity . Flow and depth are human facilities, too – and who can deny … Continue reading For the Love of Water