Concerns about Presidio’s water infrastructure dominated discussion at Monday’s unusually packed city council meeting, where a handful of vocal residents showed up in person to ask city officials about the status of work orders left in limbo. Many of them were dealing with water leaks that had been unaddressed for weeks, months — and in one case brought to light by Councilmember Billy Hernandez — 12 years.
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The Belton City Council held its meeting on Tuesday, October 26. Council member Guy O’Banion was absent from the meeting. The council voted unanimously to amend section 8-71 and section 8-72 of the City of Belton Fee and Rate Schedule related to solid waste collection for 2022. 
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A beloved Tex-Mex restaurant in Southtown has lost a key battle in its fight to keep the San Antonio Water System from building a sewage pumping station on its property. SAWS’ board of trustees on Tuesday authorized the utility to begin the process for taking part of Piedras Negras de Noche’s property for a wastewater lift station.
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With the Lower Colorado River Authority announcing a water rate increase for its firm water customers, including municipalities, Cottonwood Shores officials are grappling with how to deal with it on their tight budget. The city has fewer than 1,600 residents and a limited business district to provide its tax base, so every penny from property tax and sales tax gets stretched as far as possible.
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The City of Jacksonville has been recognized for its efforts in modernizing its water distribution system. The city recently won a 2021 50 Smart City Award in Washington D.C. for innovation in its water modernization project and also received a Texas Municipal League Award earlier this month for the role the project played in the winter storms of 2021.
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Lewisville residents can expect fees related to municipal water and sewage services to increase an average of 4.9% following a unanimous vote from the City Council during its Nov. 1 meeting. The vote also updates the city's fee schedule to include the solid waste and recycling agreement with Community Waste Disposal, which will continue to serve the Castle Hills area after the Nov. 15 annexation.
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There’s some concern from neighbors and environmental groups about a big development eyeing western Travis County land. It’s called Vizcaya, a 1,058-acre project that would be located at Bee Creek Road and Thurman Bend Road, according to a permit application with the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA). The project would also include a golf course and clubhouse, a water treatment plant, a wastewater treatment plant and amenities.
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El Paso Water says they have implemented the second phase of its mitigation plan to divert wastewater away from the Rio Grande to the Haskell R. Street Wastewater Treatment Plant in South-Central El Paso. This phase will take additional wastewater out of the American Canal and divert it to the Haskell Plant through a pipeline.
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El Paso Water Utility is holding two meetings Thursday to update the community about the wastewater that is flowing into the Rio Grande. El Paso city representative Peter Svarzbein will host a special community meeting with El Paso Water CEO John Balliew at 6 p.m.
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The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has required the Craft-Turney Water Supply Company to notify customers living in the following areas: from the intersection of FM 347 and CR 3104, south along FM 347 to the intersection of CR 3105, including CR 1616 and CR 1617 to boil their water for consumption (e.g. washing hands or face, brushing teeth, drinking, cooking, etc.) until further notice.
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After an eight-day boil water notice, the City of Killeen received approval from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to lift the notice for the eastern part of the city. City leaders held a press conference Thursday to address the boil water notice being lifted, and what’s next for the people of Killeen.
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The City of Killeen has confirmed the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) was not able to lift the city-wide boil water notice Wednesday night, pending additional monitoring of select samples. City officials announced Tuesday that the first set of samples had been sent to a lab, and results were expected after 9:00 p.m. Wednesday.
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During its regular meeting on Tuesday, the Amarillo City Council unanimously approved a $27 million contract to implement an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) system. The new system will replace the current outdated system with smart meters, which would transmit real-time water use through radio frequencies so that residents will be able to monitor usage online.
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The City of Snook’s groundwater storage tank grant project is progressing with completion expected in December or January, Snook Mayor John See said. Hollie Janak of Strand Associates of Brenham, the city’s engineering firm, briefed the city council on that issue at their Monday, Oct. 25, meeting.
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Lumberton residents will be getting a new wastewater treatment plant and Hamshire-Fannett ISD is getting a new concession stand but Newton County won't be getting a new jail and law enforcement center. While some voters in Southeast Texas who took to the polls Tuesday to vote in the 2021 Constitutional Amendment and Joint Election only voted on state constitutional amendments voters in some areas did vote on local races and propositions.
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Regional planners in Dallas-Fort Worth are looking for ways to ensure residents have enough water for decades to come, but there's not a simple solution. The Marvin Nichols Reservoir, according to the people who want to build it, would likely keep the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex watered into the 22nd century.
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After a stretch of above-average rainfall and with the arrival of cooler temperatures, SAWS President/CEO Robert R. Puente and San Antonio City Manager Erik Walsh have declared an end to Stage 1 water rules effective Tuesday. That means that SAWS customers will now be under year-round water rules. Landscape watering with an irrigation system or sprinkler is permitted any day of the week before 11 a.m. or after 7 p.m.
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Increased water and sewer rates for Allen customers and residents went into effect on Nov. 1. The new rate was established by a city council vote in September this year. Water rates will increase by around a total of 6% for residents. The minimum for water bills will increase by 8% and the volumetric rate for water sales will increase by 2%, according to the city website.
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Killeen’s citywide boil-water notice — which shut down some businesses, sent residents scrambling to buy up countless cases of bottled water, and ushered in a temporary chlorine formula that has the drinking water smelling like bleach from Belton to Copperas Cove — was officially lifted, city officials said Friday afternoon. Killeen received approval from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to lift the boil-water notice for the entire city, officials said in a news release Friday.
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Due to risks associated with attempts to repair the Lake Placid dam, Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority leadership has decided against repairing a failed spill gate at this time. The gate malfunctioned after it was lowered during the Oct. 14 flooding event, and officials say it will remain lowered until the project to replace the aging spill gates at the dam is completed, Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority officials said Friday in a released statement.
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The city of Granite Shoals is on the clock to find another software company with the cellular technology capable of getting accurate water meter readings for billing. Councilors on Oct. 26 voted to hire engineering company Performance Services Inc. to examine its water meter reading system as the first step.
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The city of Jacksonville has rescinded a boil water notice that was sent out earlier this week. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality required the City of Jacksonville public water system, TX0370002 to issue a Boil Water Notice to inform customers, individuals, or employees that due to conditions which occurred recently in the public water system.
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The City of Bruceville-Eddy Water Department has issued a boil order in place until further notice for its customers. A statement issued by the department said that due to conditions which have occurred recently due to a leak on Old Moody Rd, Eddy the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has required the system to notify all customers on the area above to boil their water prior to consumption.
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All cities in the state of Texas have a municipal water plan, in this Week's Panhandle Runs on Water ABC 7 News visited an agricultural-based city to learn how aging infrastructure can pose its own challenge as the city taps into sources of water. Located 46 miles south of Amarillo sits the city of Tulia in Swisher County.
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The Lakeside City city council approved passing on a water rate increase of 4.67% from its provider, the City of Wichita Falls, to its consumers during its meeting Tuesday, Oct. 19. This will be the city’s first water rate increase since 2015.
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