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​As courts stall or stop some major pipelines, the Permian Highway Pipeline in Texas is plowing ahead—and fears over water pollution have already become reality.

Alice city officials have laid the ground work to create their own primary water source -- one that they hope will be cheaper than buying water from Corpus Christi. The Alice City Council recently selected Seven Seas Water Corp. to design and build a brackish desalination plant within its city limits, a statement Monday from the Florida-based company said.

In a news release on Thursday, the San Antonio River Authority announced it will temporarily close some of its parks as well as areas prone to large gatherings along the River Walk for Labor Day weekend.

The 278 plaintiffs claim the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority's refusal to replace six aging or collapsed dams amounts to an unconstitutional "taking" of their waterfront properties.

The Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA) advanced toward the implementation of the second phase of the Mid-Basin Water Supply Project (MBWSP) after the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) approved the issuance of a new, 75,000 acre-foot per year surface water right on Wednesday, August 12, 2020.

The U.S. Department of Energy is planning to send a few gallons of radioactive wastewater from a South Carolina nuclear reservation to Texas, where it will be treated and disposed.

El Paso Water could could get 10s of millions of dollars from the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers through the Water Resources Development Act of 2020. 

After a dry and hot summer this year, the Office of the State Engineer is preparing to pump water from wellfields in the Pecos Basin to meet the state’s water obligations to Texas in 2021. Despite a substantial credit under the Pecos River Compact, an agreement between New Mexico and Texas for water that flows through the Pecos River, dire drought conditions in the basin this year mean the state might need to spend as much as $1.4 million in pumping to deliver enough water to the New Mexico-Texas border.

Judge Stephen Ables handed down the first major decision Thursday in a case against a river authority in Texas’ southeast Hill Country. About 280 plaintiffs can move ahead in their lawsuit against the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA) over its plan to drain four lakes and its lack of maintenance to six dams.

A $9 million state-mandated sewer system overhaul won’t drive up property taxes this year, officials said. But some of the Rio Grande Valley’s highest water rates might be climbing as early as next year. 

The Brownsville Public Utilities Board completed repairs to a broken wastewater line earlier than expected and reopened a section of Boca Chica Boulevard that had to be closed Monday night. 

The City of Bowie raw water line coming from the lake has a major leak and city officials are asking citizens to limit water usage for the next day or two until the line is repaired. 

A massive log jam that has kept half of the trails in a popular greenbelt in Denton County closed for five years is finally busted up. The logs were bottled up along the Elm Fork of the Trinity River in the Greenbelt Corridor, a 12-mile stretch of wooded land between Lake Lewisville and Lake Ray Roberts, managed by Texas Parks and Wildlife.

City commissioners today will consider taking the first steps toward borrowing about $8 million to fund a state-mandated sewer system upgrade whose completion comes with a March 2023 deadline.