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With record-breaking heat and drought conditions, gardening in North Texas is a challenge in itself. But in some neighborhoods governed by homeowners associations, gardeners have faced additional constraints when attempting to save water and drought-proof their landscapes. 
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Corpus Christi (KIII News) — At Tuesday's Corpus Christi City Council, what the mayor called a "monumental decision" took place -- a plan that is meant to prevent a water crisis during droughts was proposed. A drought contingency plan was put forward that would add a fee to industries that use a large amount of water. That means any business that uses more than 100,000 gallons of water a day will be charged an additional 25-cents per every 1,000 gallons. The money collected from this fee is meant to go back into the City and help with drought prevention. It would go toward things like a desalination plant or aquifer storage and recovery.
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PERRYTON, Texas (KVII) — People in Perryton have been in a state of confusion over the safety of their drinking water for the past few days. It all started when the City sent letters last week about elevated levels of lead that were discovered in tests conducted in June. But the City also sent out a press release at the same time, saying those test results were faulty.
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Port Aransas (KIII News) — The Texas Department of Transportation unveiled the newest vessel that will join the fleet of ferries at the Port Aransas Ferry Operations. On Friday it was announced that Phil Wilson would be the fourth 28-vehicle ferry in the eight-ferry fleet. The ferries are named after former executive directors of TxDOT. Wilson served as TxDOT's executive director from Sept. 2011 until Jan. 2014 where he became general manager of the Lower Colorado River Authority in Feb.
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For the upcoming Harris County flood control district election, leaders Harris County, including Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, Harris County Judge Ed Emmett and Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis, are scheduled to attend a press conference by Harris County on the banks of White Oak Bayou at TC Jester Park on Thursday August 9, 2018, in Houston. Leaders ask residents of the region to vote for the $ 2.5 billion bond proposal to fund a 10-15 year program for flood prevention projects.
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A year ago this week, Houstonians anxiously watched as their city — a sprawling mosaic of urban high-rises and residential neighborhoods and home to nearly 5 million people — became a murky sea of rainwater and debris after Hurricane Harvey dumped 33 trillion gallons of water in a week.
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It’s possible, a few decades from now, humans living in water-scarce places will find it ridiculous that we spent centuries just flushing away our watery sewage. Didn’t we know we could have been drinking it? The idea of a closed-loop water system, in which we drink, expel, treat, and then drink again, is not new. The technology already exists to treat human wastewater to drinking water standards; water engineers call it by the polite (if euphemistic) name of “direct potable reuse.” But few city water utilities have been daring enough to try it on their customers, given its poor public image.
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Austin’s water utility announced Thursday it is putting restrictions on water use after drought conditions returned to Central Texas and lake levels have dropped dangerously low.
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Although not yet approved by the Dublin City Council, residents may be facing an increase of 2.685 percent on their water bill, as this percentage has been passed to the City from its providers.
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Whe Hurricane Harvey pounded the Houston region with more than 50 inches of rain in August 2017, The Woodlands was spared from the worst of the carnage. While residents were impacted in many ways, less than 400 homes flooded in the township — most of those suffering damage in the southern portion of the community along Spring Creek.Homes in the Village of Creekside Park, especially in the neighborhoods of Timarron and Timarron Lakes, were flooded with anywhere from a few inches of water to several feet. Elsewhere around The Woodlands, there were varying levels of high water and damage from the days of rain storms and stormy weather.
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The Lower Colorado River Authority is investing nearly $10 million to replace the time-worn floodgates at Tom Miller Dam. The project is set to begin next week and isn’t expected to cause any problems for boaters on Lake Austin. The dam has nine floodgates that are used to send floodwaters downstream to help control the water supply in the Austin area and Central Texas.
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SAN ANTONIO – Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service’s Healthy Lawns and Healthy Waters Program is hosting two residential rainwater harvesting and turf management trainings in Boerne and San Antonio on Sept. 20 and 21, respectively. The first training, in collaboration with the Upper Cibolo Creek Watershed Partnership, will be from 8 a.m.-12 p.m. Sept. 20.
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Storms that swept across Central Texas over the weekend helped ease drought conditions in some parts of the state, including in the Austin area, according to a new map released Thursday by the U.S. Drought Monitor.
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KINGWOOD, Texas - The water from Hurricane Harvey has receded but the anxiety and fear born from rising the flood waters is still very real for some. "It is common for those who have gone through a traumatic experience like Harvey to suffer from anxiety, depression, stress, fear and insecurity,” Baylor College of Medicine professor Dr. Asim Shah said.
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The city of Dripping Springs reached a settlement agreement with all but one designated party in its effort to obtain a wastewater discharge permit from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality in early July. In 2015 the city approached the TCEQ seeking a permit to discharge up to 995,000 gallons of treated effluent per day. Since then, environmental groups, wastewater conservation districts and others have protested the permit.
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Boyd became the fourth city in the southern portion of Wise County to agree to continue researching the feasibility of acquiring water from the city of Fort Worth Tuesday night. The Boyd City Council gave City Administrator Greg Arrington and Director of Public Services Dwayne Taylor authority to explore a cooperative with Newark, Rhome and Aurora. Councils in the other three towns have already voiced support for exploring the plan of building a water line on Farm Road 718 or U.S. 81/287 from Fort Worth.
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In early 2017, homeowners in Sandy Harbor, a waterfront community in the Highland Lakeschain where Lake Lyndon B. Johnson meets the mouth of Sandy Creek, called Kevin Collier about a problem: sand. There was so much of it that it was preventing some of them from getting their boats in the water. Could he help?
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Lions all over love our world. That is why we encourage everyone to do what they can to save one of our most precious resources: water. Here are some more simple changes that you can make outdoors to save this life saving compound. And you can save money too. These changes are especially important during the hot Texas summer months.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Due to drought conditions and lake levels significantly dropping, Austin will enter Stage 1 of Drought Contingency Plan starting August 27. City officials say the combined storage level of water in Lakes Travis and Buchanan has dropped below 1.4 million acre-feet and due to this issue, city manager will order new conservation measures.
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Sparked by the damage Hurricane Harvey brought to the area one year ago, local water officials are working to push forward flood studies in hopes of preventing future flooding. The projects’ results are still years away. Most recently, the San Jacinto River Authority held the second of three public meetings July 11 to discuss phases 1 and 2 of the regional SJRA Flood Protection Project. At the meeting, David Parkhill, director of raw water enterprise for the SJRA, said the authority had been analyzing various preparedness efforts since Harvey.
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Populations of some of North America's diverse waterfowl species took a downturn this year, but the declines aren't likely to have a significant effect on how many ducks and geese Texas waterfowlers see over their decoys when those birds migrate to wintering areas this autumn and winter.
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The Lower Colorado River Authority has begun an 18-month, multi-million dollar project to remove and replace each of the nine floodgates at Tom Miller Dam in central Austin. The floodgates were installed during construction of the dam in the late 1930s. The $9.9 million project marks the second extensive renovation of the dam since it was completed in 1940. LCRA completed major structural improvements to the dam in 2005 as part of a dam modernization project.
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By Ron Askin Recycled water, or water reuse, is gaining traction amongst consumers, governments and industry as communities across the world struggle with rapid population growth and persistent drought, challenging their ability to secure sustainable access to clean drinking water.
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SAN ANTONIO - The San Antonio River Authority, or SARA, approved a 7.5 percent tax hike to invest in upgrading flood models officials say are 10 years old.Stephen Graham, assistant general manager, said SARA began budget planning for this investment three months ago in light of the major damage Hurricane Harvey caused to Houston.
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The City of Humble Public Works Department is currently working on another elevated storage tank on Wilson Road to meet the city's population needs. The tank is expected to be completed January 2019.
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