exTRA by the Trinity River Authority of Texas

With last year’s unpredictable weather still fresh on their minds, Texas farmers and ranchers are wondering what they’ll face in 2019. Will the Lone Star State start the planting season drought free?

Southeast Texans, their perspective skewed by the 54-inch weather event known as Tropical Storm Harvey, will be forgiven for not noticing how abnormally wet things were in 2018, when a late-year El Niño weather pattern helped drive rainfall totals more than 2 feet above average.

AUSTIN, TEXAS — Following heavy rains that descended on Central Texas as the new year began, officials expect to keep a floodgate on Lake Austin open through Jan. 7 to prevent excessive runoff.

The City of Fort Worth says an overflow from a wastewater collection facility dumped out a quarter-million gallons of sewage but does not presently impact the city's drinking water.

The Texas General Land Office and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have agreed to extend the current 75-day public comment period on the coastal barrier proposal - a system of levees and gates running from High Island to San Luis Pass, once known as the "Ike Dike" - by 30 days, and add a second public comment period after the Corps has digested the feedback from the current one.

Arlington water and sanitary sewer charges will remain some of the lowest in the Metroplex in 2019, despite increases in wastewater treatment and other essential costs for the City. New Arlington Water Utilities rates went into effect Jan. 1. The increase for an average residential customer is about 7 cents…

In what has become a recurring and unwelcome event, the city of Huntsville issued a release Thursday afternoon, saying that almost 200,000 gallons of untreated wastewater spilled out of the Elkins Lake Lift Station.The release states that approximately three inches of rainfall from severe thunderstorms, in less than four hours, caused numerous manholes to be completely submerged.

A Boil Water Notice has been issued for customers in the Hood County neighborhoods of Comanche Cove and Heritage Heights.

A leak in a 2-inch water line caused low pressure in the distribution system. Due to the potential for harmful bacteria to enter the line, a boil water notice has been issued to about 470 homes in the Comanche Cove and Heritage Heights subdivisions.

Residents throughout the Brazos Valley were awoken Wednesday night into Thursday morning by bright flashes of lightning and the rumble of thunder as a storm system tore through the area.

The combination of warmer than normal temperatures, a strong upper-level system and a cold front created the unstable atmosphere.

CENTRAL TEXAS — Homeowners along lakes LBJ and Marble Falls will finally have a chance to start rebuilding after the October flood. Crews with the Lower Colorado River Authority will begin lowering the lakes on Sunday, Dec. 30 so residents can make repairs. Lake LBJ will be lowered 4 feet while Lake Marble Falls will be lowered 7 feet.

Jan. 04-- From drought to floods to powerful hailstorms, 2018 was a remarkable year in Texas weather. Texas tends to think of all our hurricane weather coming from the Atlantic Ocean, but a lot of the storms in the east Pacific make landfall in Mexico, and a lot of their moisture makes landfall in Texas and contributes to rainfall in our state. The heavy rainfall al

Public works employees in Harker Heights finished cleaning up thousands of gallons of sewage that overflowed on Wednesday after heavy rainfall, a city official said on Friday.

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According to the city, they first got a call just before 9 a.m. about a Lexus stuck in a giant pothole. "We have a storm drain line that has a separation, and as the runoff was going through it it was eroding," said Greg Simmons, the assistant director of Fort Worth Transportation and Public Works.

(ARLINGTON, TX) – The Trinity River Authority, city of Arlington and Village Creek-Lake Arlington Watershed Protection Partnership need the public’s help in approving a plan to help protect Lake Arlington’s water quality. Public comments for the draft Village Creek-Lake Arlington Watershed Protection Plan will be accepted through Jan. 31, 2019.

Due to heavy rains Wednesday night and Thursday morning, the City of Nacogdoches Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) has been overwhelmed and the capacity of the system is at its maximum.  

A North Texas Municipal Water District (NTMWD) treatment plant experienced a leak of partially treated wastewater on Dec. 26, said spokeswoman Janet Rummel. During a heavy thunderstorm, lightning struck the instrumentations and controls center of the Wilson Creek Regional Wastewater Plant at 3020 Orr Road in Allen, which led to the leak and a power outage at the plant.

Steve Clouse vividly recalls the bad old days of San Antonio’s water and sewer system, back when the San Antonio River ran black below the city, with dead fish floating at the surface.

Clouse, 59, started in 1985 as a “sample man” in the city’s wastewater department and has witnessed more changes than almost anyone who’s still an employee of the San Antonio Water System during his 33 years in San Antonio.