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Rio Grande Valley farmers are making a last-minute plea to state lawmakers to kill legislation from state Sen. Juan Hinojosa that would abolish a local water district. Senate Bill 2185 seeks to dissolve Hidalgo County Water Improvement District No. 3 and transfer its assets and liabilities to the City of McAllen. 
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Construction to restore a dam at Lake Dunlap has been approved exactly two years after a spill gate failure caused the lake to drop 7 feet. Video caught the exact moment that a spill gate failed at Lake Dunlap on the morning of May 14, 2019, with water rushing out of the lake at 11,000 cubic feet per second, according to officials with the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority.
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Homeowners in the Preston Club neighborhood in Sherman have dealt with sewer problems for a long time. "We had bad water," said resident William Libscomb. "We had bad sewage. We had bad everything." But a $2.3 million solution is on the way to Preston Club. "20,000 feet of linear feet of sewer line that will connect into Preston Club and get them up to speed, up to par with their sewer system up there," said Sherman City Council member Shawn Teamann.
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A product that is made to keep you feeling clean is causing some nasty problems for city sewer systems. Despite the labels on the packaging, wastewater system workers say flushable wipes do not dissolve like toilet paper. They are clogging toilets, backing up sewer lines and costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
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Thank you to our employees who spent the day at Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity ReStore lending a helping hand. Volunteers assisted in accepting donations, sorting, preparing and moving items onto the sales floor. A special thank you to Jeremy Prewitt who volunteered for back-to-back shifts and Jose Alcala who volunteered his time on his day off! Volunteers included Central Regional Wastewater System staff Joe Gedville, Blane Ridings and Jose Alcala; Red Oak Creek Regional Wastewater System staff Wendy Derdeyn; and General Office staff Jeremy Prewitt, Fatma Karim, Julie Hornsby, Beverly Murphy, Jenna Smith, Mai Dinh, Rémy Brown and Vanassa Joseph.
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From U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District, in keeping with its flood risk reduction charter, continues to monitor and manage recent flooding at Sam Rayburn Reservoir and B.A. Steinhagen Lake/Town Bluff Dam in Texas.
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Things can change quickly. Jason Allen reports along the Trinity River in Fort Worth.
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The San Antonio River Authority hopes to begin construction this summer on a “hybrid design” for a community plaza at an archaeological site whose discovery last year caused an 18-month delay in work on the San Pedro Creek Culture Park.
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The Brazos River Authority put out an alert regarding potentially harmful algae in Lake Granbury. So far, the Brazos River Authority has not confirmed whether the algal blooms seen in the lake can be classified as cyanotoxin, a toxic form of blue-green algae.
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The city of Granite Shoals is splitting the $52,000 projected cost of a new waterline along Rockcrest Drive with Qro Mex Construction, which is building eight houses on the street. The partnership also should save the city time. “We don’t have the people or the equipment to do it,” City Manager Jeff Looney said. He estimated it would take city staff five times as long to install the line compared to Qro Mex.
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The city of Floresville will seek at least $280,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to continue a water system improvements project. City Council members approved securing the additional funding at a special May 6 meeting. The project includes replacement of the Plaza Well on U.S. 181, as well as rehabilitation of the B Street and Hospital wells and interconnection with the Oak Hills Water Supply Corp.
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In June 2018, in response to Hurricane Harvey, League City City Council made its development standards stricter to help mitigate flooding for new developments. Now, the council is considering relaxing those ordinances at staff’s request.
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The Bowie City Council conducted the first reading of an ordinance authorizing the issuance of a $9,775,000 loan from the Texas Water Development Board to the City of Bowie for wastewater system improvements on Monday night.
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El Paso Water is yet again urging residents to not flush wipes that say 'flushable' on the packaging, saying they are creating massive clogs in the city's wastewater system. It's been an ongoing problem during the pandemic, with people using their toilets as trashcans.
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Boerne is known by some people as being part of flash flood alley, said Jeff Carroll, director of development services for the City of Boerne. “We get those big rain events. When that happens, we have a lot of water come down very quickly,” Carroll explains. That’s why the city is taking steps to form a master drainage plan and has hired a consultant to collect data and come up with a list of projects to help fix the flooding issues.
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Montgomery County officials remained prepared Tuesday for potential flooding as storms moving into the region were forecast to drop close to eight inches of rain in some areas of the county. National Weather Service forecasters said the risk for locally heavy rainfall remains for all of southeast Texas over the next several days as multiple rounds of showers and thunderstorms develop and move across the area.
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In response to severe flooding threats across Texas, Gov. Abbott ordered the Texas State Operations Center (SOC) to expand its daily operations to 24-hours a day beginning Tuesday continuing through Friday.
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We have certainly seen our fair share of rain over the past week or so. But is any of that water getting into our reservoirs? We have been under stage one drought restrictions and getting closer to stage two. ”Right now, with this rain, our drought conditions are certainly improving," Maria Corona with Utilities Compliance for the City of Corpus Christi said.
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With so much rainfall throughout the metroplex, NBC 5 wanted an update on a project expected to mitigate flooding in East Dallas. A solution for East Dallas’ well-documented flood problems has been a long time coming.
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Due to reduced pressure and water outage, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has required the City of Gladewater water system to notify customers of the need to boil their water prior to consumption.
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Contractor given the green light to begin work on Lake Dunlap dam two years after spill gate failure
Two years to the day after a key spill gate at Lake Dunlap’s dam failed, the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority has given contractors the green light to begin construction on a new dam. After the original dam failed on May 14, 2019, residents and members of the Preserve Lake Dunlap Association began working with the GBRA and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to propose a Water Control and Improvement District that would allow residents to tax themselves to pay for the improvements.
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Tarrant Regional Water District Virtual Learning Program Teaches Local Kids About Water Conservation
Texans know our weather can be crazy. In February, all of Tarrant County suddenly discovered a newfound interest in our water supply after the Texas winter storm and power outages. The Tarrant Regional Water District (TRWD) has found an exciting way to teach elementary school students about our water supply.
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Neighbors in Pleasanton called to ask for our help tonight after seeing dark, brown water coming straight from the tap. Caption: Neighbors in Pleasanton called to ask for our help tonight after seeing dark, brown water coming straight from the tap. We spoke to one man who did not want to be identified.
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The city of Kenedy took steps to make sure its water system is better able to withstand disaster situations by authorizing up to $850,000 for generators and automatic transfer switches for the community’s reverse osmosis treatment plant.
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When it rains, it pours — and it also washes up unwanted litter into the San Antonio River. In the past two days (not including Wednesday), around 60 staff members and contractors with the San Antonio River Authority (SARA) have picked up more than 17,000 pounds of trash along the San Antonio River Basin, specifically in the Mission Reach area that extends south of the downtown section.
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