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After months of acrimony, the Agua Special Utility District board and the Palmview City Council struck a tentative agreement last week to resolve a long-running feud. Palmview and the utility district plan to dismiss a lawsuit over the city’s attempt to build a separate sewer system. They’ll also drop a related administrative proceeding before the Texas Public Utility Commission.

The Sandow Steam Electric Station has been closed for more than a year, but its impact on Milam County goes beyond the economy — it could hinder groundwater for decades to come.

Residents in Geronimo are invited to spend part of their Sunday afternoon learning more about a San Antonio real estate company who is not only looking to bring in 1,000 new homes to the area but who is also looking to attach the proposed subdivision with a wastewater treatment plant -- a plant that if built would be in direct contact with the Geronimo Creek.

The city of Laredo is waging a two-front war against the proposed wall along the Texas-Mexico border that city leaders fully expect to lose.

The next major improvement to the Athens water system is expected to begin soon. Utility Director Randy Williams said the project involves rehabilitating the elevated storage tank on Loop 7

Two Southeast Texas agencies have $500,000 extra for Tropical Storm Harvey recovery that they say they couldn’t have financed alone. The Texas Water Development Board on Tuesday awarded the money to the Orange County Water Control and Improvement District No. 1 and the city of Nome for a total of $1 million in loan forgiveness for the area, according to the board.

City leaders in Hutto are doing everything they can to prevent a Lubbock company from building a waste transfer station in their growth corridor. The Mayor, Hutto City Council and Hutto ISD spoke against the plan at a public meeting held by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, which will eventually decide whether to permit the operation.

After the city of Conroe landed a victory its lawsuit against the Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District late last year, both parties have agreed to a settlement ending the years long battle of regulations over groundwater use.

Nutrien Ag Solutions provides whole-acre solutions and services that help growers make informed agronomic decisions. This collaboration means that Nutrien Ag Solutions can now add Lindsay’s FieldNET Advisor to its digital and agronomic offerings, enabling growers to better streamline water usage as part of their overall field management plan.

An angry crowd faced off Tuesday night against city of Liberty Hill officials and engineers with their concerns that wastewater released into the South San Gabriel River by the city’s treatment plant was still causing algae in the river.

Mitch Sowards of Entrust Technology Consulting Services selected to serve on the South Texas Regional Water Planning Group for Region L (San Antonio, TX and surrounding area)

Aledo Mayor Kit Marshall shared her thoughts with the city council Thursday night on a regulation in the Upper Trinity Groundwater Conservation District’s proposed rules pertaining to cities’ public water supply systems.

Continued investments in flood science are needed to keep Texans safe, emergency management and water experts say. 

The Howardwick City Council voted to renew its franchise agreement with Red River Water Authority for a seven-year period following a lengthy debate last Tuesday, January 15.

District 119 Representative Roland Gutierrez filed a bill to look into the environmental impact of building a wall some say the impact is more than you might expect. Gutierrez says a wall would make flooding on the Rio Grande Floodplain worse. Tricia Cortez, Executive Director with the Rio Grande International Study Center agrees.