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The Hutto City Council has approved helping water customers facing increased costs due to pipe breaks during last month's winter storm pay their water bills.  Residential and commercial customers who have water bills that are at least 50% above what they pay on average will only be charged an extra 10%, according to the plan approved by the council.

The Sherman City Council voted unanimously Monday night to provide a water credit for all residential customers following outages during winter storms.

Pearland City Council voted on how to bill residents for the water used during the 2021 freeze at its March 1 meeting. The council agreed on the city’s recommended course of action: to bill residents the lesser of last year’s usage or this year’s usage during February. 

The Lockhart City Council adopted a resolution on March 2 that aims to help offset the anticipated higher cost of wholesale power and limit increased water rates due to excessive consumption during February’s historic winter storm.  

The flooding along the Navasota River has been a consistent problem for landowners and producers in that area. If you have seen losses from the flooding, Precinct 3 Commissioner Russ Ford is inviting you to a planning meeting with the Brazos River Authority to identify issues and discuss solutions to the flooding caused by the Lake Limestone Reservoir releases.

The city of Mission is set to resume water disconnections after nearly a year of giving customers a break. The city of Mission will resume normal utility services beginning March 15 after suspending disconnections nearly a year ago on March 18, 2020 for residents and businesses affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

The Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) board of directors has adopted a one-year moratorium on commercial dredging activities on the Highland Lakes, including a proposed operation on Lake LBJ by Collier Materials Inc. The board took the action during its Wednesday, February 24, meeting. 

Water and shoreline samples from the Hudson Bend area of Lake Travis tested positive for blue-green algae Friday, according to a statement from the Lower Colorado River Authority.

Not even a historic week of freezing temperatures and record-setting snowfall last month could mitigate some of the toughest and most threatening invasive species known to central Texas, biologists from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department say.

The city of Sherman will be spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in winter storm recovery efforts. And to prevent something like this from happening again, they could spend over a million dollars more.

The city of Bay City is securing multi-year financing totaling $59.3 million that will go toward much needed upgrades to its antiquated water and wastewater treatment plants.

A much needed second wastewater treatment plant project can move forward now that the Texas Water Development Board has agreed to provide $165,665,000 in financing.