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At a recent San Angelo city council meeting, council members approved payment by the city to the Upper Colorado River Authority for testing in the Concho River.

Just over a year after filing a lawsuit against a contractor for negligence over a two separate ruptures of the San Jacinto River Authority’s $500 million water pipeline in The Woodlands in 2016, SJRA officials are again addressing another broken segment that was constructed by the same company.

The city of Tyler will borrow about $21 million this year to pay for sewer system work required by the federal government.

UPDATE: Tuesday, 12:10 p. m. The City of Fritch has lifted the boil water order put in place on Friday. City Manager Drew Brassfield says that test results on the water supply came back negative for anything harmful, allowing the city to lift the boil order, effective immediately

Growing up in a military family, Paul Weyland never really had a place to call home. But, there was one constant: a lake house in the hill country on Lake LBJ was his happy place where he made memories year after year.

Council Member Dave Martin would like to make Lake Houston Area residents aware all gates on the Lake Houston Spillway Dam are now open due to the escalation of Tropical Depression 11 turning in to Tropical Storm Imelda.

National leaders in water conservation convene in Austin Wednesday for a three-day conference focused on protecting natural resources. The One Water Summit is an annual event, hosted by the U.S. Water Alliance, held in different cities around the country.

After heavy rains last winter and early this summer, Texas is seeing a rapid return to hot, bone-dry conditions. While we watch our lawns brown and wait for the rains to return, the age-old question echoes again, “Does fast-growing Texas, which is adding 1,000 new residents every day, have enough water to weather future prolonged droughts?”

The second phase of water and drainage improvements for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive is expected to begin soon in Montgomery. The council unanimously voted yes to awarded the contract to the Jones and Carter-recommended Houston-based MMG Contractors, LLC. during Tuesday’s meeting.

After months of discussion, the Magnolia City Council has awarded a $9.8 million contract for the expansion of its wastewater treatment plant.

City leaders in Garden Ridge are scrambling to fix a water rate increase that left residents shocked when they opened their bills. Residents, including Rodger Apolinar, packed into the city council meeting on Tuesday to get answers to their frustrations.

The Sealy City Council proposed rate increases for water and sewer during its meeting on Sept. 3. Under the proposal, fixed water rates for a ¾-inch line would go from $14.87 to $16.50 and a one-inch line would go from $14.87 to $19.60. 

A visiting judge on Wednesday ordered the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority, at least for the time being, to stall its plans to begin dewatering all of the lakes in its Guadalupe Valley system.