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The Texas Water Development Board is expected to provide an additional $10.1 million for flooding control in Socorro. The money will go towards flood control measures along the Sparks Arroyo northeast of Socorro.

After establishing a workshop date during the last Laredo City Council meeting, the Webb County Commissioners Court accepted an invitation by the Binational River Park working group to attend a future workshop among other partners and agencies. The workshop will discuss items such as funding and the ecology of the river, and it will include experts involved in the San Antonio River Walk to provide information.

This past week, Laredo's leaders discussed the recent March and April water line breaks that interrupted numerous days of school for local children. In some cases, the breaks involved contractors without permits which led to council discussing higher penalties.

In a case to determine who can control the use of treated wastewater that’s been discharged into the San Antonio River, an administrative law judge has ruled that the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority and a chemical company have standing to contest issuing a special permit to the San Antonio Water System. The city-owned water company applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality in 2013 for what’s called a “bed and banks” permit, so named because it authorizes a permit grantee to use the beds and banks of Texas tributaries as a means to transport water. 

Thunderstorms and record-breaking heat – that’s the type of weather greeting Mayfest as it kicks things off in Fort Worth on Thursday. The festival is coming back to Trinity Park after a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19, just in time to celebrate its 50th anniversary.

Monday night Sherman City Council took the next steps in making major improvements to its water facilities. "With the addition of Texas Instruments we’re gonna need a lot more capacity in our sewage treatment facilities and our water treatment facilities,” said Josh Stevenson, Sherman city councilman.

When it comes to southern Dallas County, people love their neighborhoods. "By far, [it's] superior to other places because it's a little gem here,” Cedar Hill resident Pamela Agee said. “It's beautiful here; rolling hills. And so, we love it here."

Water and wastewater services will be provided to colonias in the county for the first time, if El Paso County partners with a non-profit organization. The non-profit organization being considered is Dig Deep, which provides water services to millions across the country.

The Ninth District Court of Appeals in Beaumont issued an opinion April 21 upholding a lower court’s decision against the San Jacinto River Authority. The memorandum opinion, delivered by Judge Leanne Johnson, found that the river authority failed to mediate with the cities of Conroe and Magnolia before filing to collect payments in its Groundwater Reduction Plan contracts.

Three years after Houston sued the state to protect its rights to a proposed Austin County reservoir, the city reversed course this week, selling its ownership stake to the Brazos River Authority in a deal that could have implications for the city’s growth. The city agreed Tuesday to sell its 70 percent ownership interest in the long-planned Allens Creek Reservoir to the state agency for nearly $46 million.

Tuesday, the Waco Regional Water Quality Lab reported that of the WCID 1 samples submitted, all were coliform negative. The water district says that means all of its customer systems can rescind their boil water notices.

El Paso Water announced that the utility and its partners have completed the clean-up of the Rio Grande after raw sewage was diverted into the river. Approximately six to twelve inches of impacted soil was removed from about a two-mile stretch of the riverbed, according to Gilbert Trejo, interim chief operations officer for production and treatment at El Paso Water.

Residents in and around Campbell and Commerce, representatives of Texas A&M-Commerce, and Hunt County Judge Bobby Stovall made it clear Thursday night that they do not welcome a proposed solid waste facility along State Hwy. 24 near Commerce. That position was staked out during a more than two-hour meeting in Greenville hosted by the Texas Commission of Environmental Quality (TCEQ).

The city of Pflugerville is set to receive a $24 million loan from the Texas Water Development for water system improvements.

The funds will come from the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund and will save the city approximately $5 million over the life of the loan, according to a new release.

Our water systems and the battle of national security is a multi-layered problem. Some of the major aspects of national security is protecting the water systems, and access to quality water.

Port Arthur residents officially are on track to see a new $67 million wastewater treatment plant in just three years. City officials earlier this week broke ground on the project that first hit the planning stage in 2015.

COVID-19 testing clinics around the country are closing, and federal funding for free clinical testing is drying up. But wastewater surveillance could step in to play a crucial role in keeping track of where the virus is and just how much is really circulating out there, according to two professors in San Antonio who have been working on COVID wastewater surveillance since early in the pandemic.