exTRA by the Trinity River Authority of Texas

Each year, GBRA and the Upper Guadalupe River Authority (UGRA) convene the committee meeting to provide direction for Clean Rivers Program activities in the Guadalupe River Basin, as well as develop and monitor the work plan.

Protecting Pflugerville’s water supply from zebra mussels will combine short- and long-term solutions that will begin soon. Council members voted to approve more than $51,000 in funds as the first step to combat the invasive species, found on a pump last fall in the intake tower at Lake Pflugerville.

The Lower Colorado River Authority has until September to adopt new required policies and recommendations made by the Texas Legislature’s Sunset Advisory Commission. The commission’s review discovered issues concerning matters pertaining to LCRA, including the authority’s financial transparency.

The Waxahachie Impact Fee Advisory Committee has received a five-year summary report on the full impact of the city’s water, sewer and roadway fees.

The City of Mart has applied for a $9.25 million state grant to fund improvements to the community’s wastewater treatment plant after the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality found 18 violations at the plant.

More than 500 fish died following a wastewater spill into Gilleland Creek in Pflugerville earlier this week.

After 50 years of renting office space, El Jardin Water Supply Corporation, which started as a mom-and-pop operation supplying potable water for domestic use to ranchers and farmers, is building its own headquarters.

While no one can deny the crisp, fresh feeling mineral water gives you, officials in one Hill Country town, Dripping Springs, are denying what’s being perceived on social media about them and what they not doing. “We have not discharged anything, anywhere, into any creek. We have a permit right now that allows us to do land irrigation where it’s sprayed on the land, but thats just going on basically hay fields,” states Bill Foulds, Mayor Pro-Tem for the City of Dripping Springs.

Tomball City Council approved a contract during their meeting March 4 to repair the centrifuge at the city's south side wastewater treatment plant.

The Texas Water Development Board recently approved $5,151,694 in financial assistance to the City of Arlington to improve the City’s wastewater system with a wastewater collection line replacement project.

Donald Trump's EPA and Texas state officials rejected an offer from NASA scientists in 2017 to use their state-of-the-art flying laboratory to evaluate air quality in Houston after Hurricane Harvey. "EPA and the state of Texas did not want to have all the information it could to try and help and protect the citizens of Houston."

After about five years, the city is working toward re-opening its $17 million water plant within six to nine months.

For its third meeting of the year, the Lake Houston Pachyderm Club hosted a panel where flood-related policies were the focal point. Featured speakers at the 7 p.m. Monday event in the Tosca Americana restaurant were Kaaren Cambio, field director for Rep. Dan Crenshaw, Matthew Zeve, Harris County Flood Control District’s deputy executive director and Chuck Gilman, the San Jacinto River Authority’s director of flood management. Cambio is also a voting board member on the SJRA.

The city of Mart plans to hire a manager to oversee operations at the wastewater treatment plant after the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality reported multiple alleged violations of state environmental regulations, Mayor Len Williams said at the City Council meeting Monday night.

The Spring Flood Potential for Southeast Texas is above normal for the Trinity, San Jacinto, Brazos, San Bernard, and Colorado River Basins, and near normal for the Lavaca/NavidadvRiver Basin. This outlook is based on antecedent rainfall, current streamflows and water supply storage, soil moisture conditions, and long-term climate outlooks over the next three months.

Kaylyn Smith has been a citizen of the city of Fritch since 2003. For her, it’s home. But she wants more from city leaders. “If someone had called me back on Friday and dealt with this the way it should’ve been we wouldn’t be here-- but that’s typical Fritch--they don’t do anything until they’re forced to,” said Smith. She started noticing extreme cloudiness in her water Friday afternoon. It was so cloudy---she says--- she could not see through her own water.

The Elgin City Council on Tuesday approved issuing $10 million in bonds to fund several water and wastewater improvements as well as the extensions of Lee Dildy Boulevard and Roy Rivers Road.

No Texan would ever buy a home again without knowing whether they are purchasing property within the “flood pools” of reservoirs, such as the Addicks and the Barker in the Houston area, under legislation gaining steam in the Texas Legislature.