Some Rollingwood residents will receive credits on their next water bill following a resolution approved Wednesday by the City Council. Officials said the Public Works Department conducted an audit of the city’s water meters and found discrepancies in recorded and actual meter sizes that were causing customers to be billed incorrectly.
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We had the honor of presenting to Richardson ISD students participating in the summer IGNITE program. With a focus on STEM, the program aims to engage students and ignite their love of learning! We spoke to the students about the actions they can take to protect our watersheds and then built a water filter to test which filtering material would best clean the "dirty" water. 
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Local and state leaders gathered here Thursday morning to celebrate the opening of a $13 million wastewater and sewage treatment plant that will service eight colonias in the Mid-Valley. The new plant will expand the reach of the North Alamo Water Supply Corporation, which provides water and wastewater services to a quarter of a million people across rural Hidalgo, Cameron and Willacy counties, according to the utility’s general manager, Steven Sanchez.
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Invasive zebra mussels that are known to harm wildlife have now infested three more lakes -- Lake Brownwood, Inks Lake and Medina Lake -- according to Texas Parks and Wildlife officials. TPWD announced Thursday that there is “an established, reproducing population of zebra mussels” in these lakes, in the Colorado and San Antonio River Basins, and that the mussels were detected in a recent sampling.
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Mayor Sylvester Turner and the Houston City Council postponed a scheduled vote Wednesday on proposed rate increases that would affect residential water and wastewater customers across the city. Turner said
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Pearland City Council voted to put an item on the May 2022 ballot for the creation of a Municipal Drainage Utility and Stormwater Fee. If the ballot measure passes in the election, residents would be charged a monthly fee that would be allocated for drainage costs in the city.
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A moment of massive taxpayer expense coming at City Hall with a majority of the Council poised to increase the cost of water and wastewater for every Houston home and business. According to numbers published by Houston Public Works, an average household using 3,000 gallons every 30 days will see the monthly bill rise from $33 to nearly $55 dollars over the next five years.
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Bowie City Council members are moving forward with plans to replace the city’s 80-year-old sewer lines despite pushback from some residents over future increases to water and sewer rates. Before tonight’s meeting, Bowie Mayor Gaylynn Burris says that residents should expect an overall increase of a little less than 15% over the course of the five-year project. A rise some residents, like Helen Sue Ingraham, say is too much.
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A new Northeast Texas coalition is “pushing back” in a fight brewing for decades over a proposed reservoir that would feed the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The group Preserve Northeast Texas says the long-talked about Marvin Nichols Reservoir on the main stem of the Sulphur River in Red River and Titus counties would impact thousands of acres of land, harm wildlife and hurt the region economically.
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Austin Water crews are reporting a domestic wastewater overflow from a 24-inch wastewater main located in Walnut Creek in the Walnut Creek Metropolitan Park. The overflow was stopped on Sunday evening and repairs are underway. Overflowed wastewater was contained in the area around the broken pipe and re-entered the wastewater collection system through the other end of the broken pipe.
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Texas is closer to opening its first water reservoir in 30 years after heavy rainfall in the spring. Bois d’Arc Lake in Fannin County was first planned in the 1980s and was put into motion in 2018 when the North Texas Municipal Water District won federal approval to begin the lake’s construction. The district provides water to 1.8 million people in 80 cities and communities across 10 counties.
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Leading the way from her office inside the Brackenridge Villa down a path that leads to the mother spring of the San Antonio River, Sister Teresa Maya, congregational leader of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, spoke hopefully about the future of the land.
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On Tuesday, June 8th, 2021 the Williamson dam spillway at Lake Cisco was active for the first time since the 2016 flood that destroyed the city water treatment plant and washed out a section of Highway 6. Since the flood, major improvements were made to the water treatment plant and the water passageway under highway 6.
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The Athens City Council awarded contracts for major water and sewer projects underway on the south part of town, at the regularly scheduled meeting, Monday. On one of the items, the council passed a resolution awarding a bid to Capps Capco Construction for South 19 lift station improvements and authorized City Manager Elizabeth Borstad to enter into a contract the service at a cost of $281,405.
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The Woodlands area has largely been spared the widespread, catastrophic flooding seen in parts of the Greater Houston area in events such as Hurricane Harvey, but officials said now is the time to act to prevent those scenarios from unfolding in south Montgomery County.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 1160 into law yesterday which will create a Gulf Coast Protection District. This district will be authorized to receive and issue funds for future coastal projects identified in the Coastal Texas Protection and Restoration Feasibility Study.
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The Tarrant Water Board skipped its plan to honor retiring general manager Jim Oliver during its board meeting this week. The board’s agenda called for it to “consider the adoption of a resolution honoring” Oliver. This honor was to come after the board met in closed session to discuss purchasing land for the Integrated Pipeline Project, as well as the compensation for Oliver’s replacement, who is set to take over July 1.
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Wichita Falls City Councilors voted to bite the bullet Tuesday and pay a $1.3 million electric bill that resulted from February’s winter storm. The bill was for “ancillary” power used in the storm. Wichita Falls is a member of the Texas Coalition for Affordable Power (TCAP) and has fixed rates on its normal electricity bills.
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Lewisville High School’s Fighting Farmers mascot has adorned the water tower in the heart of the city for nearly 50 years. But the decommissioning of the 170-foot-tall tower earlier this year from the water system meant the city could no longer tap its utility fund for maintenance.
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Summer has arrived with its higher temperatures and water conditions suitable for the spread of an uncommon but usually fatal illness that can occur when water goes up your nose, after, for instance, swimming, diving, skiing or other water recreation. Primary amebic meningoencephalitis, or PAM, is a rare brain infection caused when swimmers come in contact with Naegleria fowleri, an amoeba found in freshwater and soil.
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The city of League City has published a notice of intent to issue certificates of obligation to fund part of a $22 million project to upgrade a water line. Finance Director Kristine Polian said the certificates of obligation will be used to fund up to $15 million of the project, which will result in a new 36-inch water line from the Hwy. 3 pump station to the South Shore pump station.
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The first Bois d’Arc Lake Watershed Protection Plan Meeting was held at the Bonham City Hall Wednesday 9, 2021 at 9:30 a.m. There was full house attendance of concerned local residents; elected officials (County Judge Moore, Commissioner Magness and Honey Grove Mayor Claude Caffee); TCEQ, Texas A&M Agrilife Extension Agent Cody Maxwell and members of the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board.
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The Upper Trinity Regional Water District will break ground on Lake Ralph Hall -- Texas' newest lake, on Wednesday. Lake Ralph Hall will provide drinking water to Collin and Denton counties. as well as recreational opportunities in Fannin County including boating, fishing, hiking, and hunting. The UTRWD serves approximately 325,000 residents in one of the fastest-growing regions in North Texas.
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Texas game warden seized more than 500 fish after investigating a report of illegal fishing near the spillway on Lake Livingston last week. On Friday, a game warden responding to a tip on the department’s Operation Game Thief line ended up writing a citation to an angler and seizing 537 white bass that were caught by use of a net, said the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department.
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The month of February was unprecedented in many ways for Texoma and the rest of Texas. The record-breaking storms brought with them sub-zero temperatures and snowfall that blanketed the region for nearly a week.
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