CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Corpus Christi's City Council approved this week the final piece of the IGA Grocery Store project on Padre Island.
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About 120 people jammed into the Old Tarpley Schoolhouse on Sunday, Aug. 18 to make final preparations for a public meeting on a Christian youth camp's proposed wastewater permit near Tarpley that critics consider an environmental nightmare and a pathway for more pollution in the future. 
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The widening of F.M. 1417 has lead to a number of construction projects along the roadway. Now the city of Sherman is being faced with a Texas Department of Transportation mandate to relocate some of the city’s water lines that are in TxDOT right-of-ways in along the road.
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Disaster declarations have been issued for Comanche County and the City of Comanche due to a break in the City of Comanche's main water supply line.
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The Rockport City Council, at its regular meeting Tuesday, Aug. 13, held a public hearing regarding the city’s proposal to increase wastewater (residential and commercial), natural gas (residential and commercial), an solid waste (commercial only) rates.
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The city of Palestine spends tens of thousands of dollars a year ridding sewers, pipes, lift stations, and the wastewater plant of improperly disposed cooking grease.
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It’s time for the Allens Creek Reservoir to finally be built. I cheered when the Texas Legislature passed, and the governor signed, House Bill 2846 which requires Houston to sell its lion’s share of the proposed reservoir to the Brazos River Authority for no more than $23 million.
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As authorities closed a portion of Lake LBJ at the 1431 Bridge Aug. 14, Kingsland Municipal Utility District crews installed several hundred feet of new wastewater line which was pummeled by debris and buried under at least 8 feet of sand during the October flood.
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Small and sharp zebra mussels have taken over 17 Texas lakes, and the invasion is costing taxpayers.
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AUSTIN – Established, reproducing populations of invasive zebra mussels have been discovered at two new lakes in Central Texas, Lake Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) in the Colorado River basin northwest of Austin and Lake Pflugerville northeast of Austin.
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With a $6,050 grant from the Lower Colorado River Authority, the city of Granite Shoals can add a customer portal to its smart meter system to help customers more easily monitor their real-time water use.
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Leaders of San Antonio’s three key water agencies talked about the water issues facing the region at a West San Antonio Chamber of Commerce panel Friday.
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Lake enthusiasts will once again be allowed to walk along a concrete pathway located at the top of the Canyon Lake dam, more than a year after it was closed due to safety concerns.
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Residents near four Texas lakes that are scheduled to be drained by the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority have formed the organization “Save Our Lakes” to
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PFLUGERVILLE, Texas —A pump failure at the Windermere Utility wastewater treatment plant in Pflugerville Monday night led to hundreds of dead fish in Gilleland Creek.
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By Lew K. Cohn Managing Editor The City of Granite Shoals will ask voters to approve a $7 million bond package for water system improvements on Tuesday, Nov. 5, after City Council members adopted an ordinance calling for an election at their Aug. 13 meeting at City Hall.
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A public meeting has been scheduled for Aug. 26 in Bandera on an application for a wastewater treatment permit for a Christian youth camp planned near Tarpley that has generated enough protests from area property owners and concerned citizens to get the proposed permit changed.
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The City of Belton has initiated Stage 1 drought conditions as a result of high water usage as temperatures soar.
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After more than a year of debate, city commissioners have taken the big step to fund the first phase of a state-mandated sewer system overhaul carrying a projected $8.2 million price tag.
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Compromised dams have forced the draining of four Central Texas lakes along the Guadalupe River.
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Huntsville’s public works department says over 165,000 gallons of wastewater spilled out of the Elkins Lake Dam Lift Station after a contractor lift station bypass failed.
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Nearly every home and business in Converse will receive a new water meter in six months’ time after City Council last week awarded a bid to update its antiquated water meter reading process.
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Managers of the Fort Worth's troubled Panther Island project received a final consultant's report on Monday that found no malfeasance, but recommended streamlining management to focus on flood control.
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The City of Humble held a public hearing on Thursday to seek community input on the $2.055 million Community Development Block Grant they are applying for to do flood mitigation projects on Black’s Bayou in the Northshire subdivision.
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A Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority proposal to drain lakes in order to investigate the status of Guadalupe River dams has residents and business owners concerned about what it means for them.
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