Attorneys for the city of Midland, the oil capital of Texas, made an unusual request to regulators this year: Could they please be allowed to challenge drilling permits? Midland isn’t contesting permits to drill for oil. The city is challenging applications by Pilot Water Solutions to inject oil and gas wastewater deep underground adjacent to the T-Bar Ranch, where Midland gets about 30% of its drinking water. City leaders worry that Pilot’s disposal wells could jeopardize their long-term water supply.
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The Watershed Protection Department is developing a new strategic plan called Rain to River. The initiative is meant to address problems like water quality issues, bank erosion and local flooding over the coming years.
Houston City Council is altering its plan to allocate $315 million in federal funding for disaster recovery efforts from two recent extreme weather disasters after residents expressed disapproval of zero funding going toward housing.
The cities of Van Alstyne and Anna are teaming up to address problems with their wastewater infrastructure.
"We've seen the growth coming for years, and we've come up with a solution," explained Mike Shaw, a spokesperson for the City of Van Alstyne. "Rather than spend millions to build a brand new [wastewater treatment plant], it makes a lot more sense to have an agreement with Anna."
The safety of drinking water for San Antonio residents is in question if the Guajolote Ranch development, which includes a wastewater treatment plant, is built in northwest Bexar County, according to a local professor.
The city has experienced unprecedented growth over the past 10 years, Norm McGuire, assistant city administrator and director of public works said in a previous Chronicle story. Despite the growth, past city councils failed to prioritize water infrastructure projects, creating "major operational" issues for the city, he said.
Six months after the city of Georgetown entered into an agreement with GateHouse Water LLC to expand its raw water resources, both parties have mutually terminated the agreement due to technical and financial issues, according to the city’s website.
As people and businesses continue to flock to the Lone Star State, Texas lawmakers passed legislation this spring that is aimed at helping communities create new water supplies and repair aging water systems.
Those taking effect immediately range from enhancing the state’s water infrastructure to addressing education issues, including grades in K-12 and higher education.
The city of San Antonio has hired Kleinfelder, a national engineering firm that has done consulting work for the city in years past, to analyze the causes and impacts of the June 12 flash flood that claimed 13 lives. The goal of the review is "to understand exactly what happened and ensure our response and mitigation efforts" are guided by facts, City Manager Erik Walsh told Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones and members of San Antonio's City Council in a memo.
Committee members discussed the reliance on historical drought data, specifically the drought of record from the 1950s, which is still being utilized by the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) in their modeling. This approach has been criticized for potentially skewing water availability assessments, as it does not account for more recent drought events, such as the severe drought experienced in 2011.
Whitney's received an $18,000 fine because of its wastewater treatment plant for environmental violations, as city officials consider building a new facility to address ongoing issues.
In 2024, city-owed pipes seeped and spewed 9.3 billion gallons of treated water – a 31% increase over the previous year, according to annual audits submitted to the Texas Water Development Board.
Whitmire reversed his initial position that none of the $315 million in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which awarded the funding in response to last year’s storms, should go toward housing. Community advocates say unmet housing needs require at least $100 million.
The legislative clock ran out on at least nine major water-protection measures that had already received committee approval, according to an analysis by the GEAA, which represents water users' interests in 21 counties overlying the Edwards and Trinity aquifers.
A recent study by Freese and Nichols [...] found that multiple lines of Bellaire’s wastewater collection system have an excessive amount of inflow and infiltration of groundwater and stormwater from defective manholes, pipes and drains.
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