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Kingsville mayor and residents say they're blindsided by desalination project that would discharge waste into Baffin Bay, saying the deal between STWA and SSW was made without community input.
The city of Fort Worth is hosting a vigil for victims of the Hill Country flood on Monday, according to a news release. At 7 p.m. on July 14, Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker will hold a candlelight vigil on the back porch of City Hall, the release states. The program will begin at 7:30, and green ribbons and candles will be passed out to attendees.
Viral posts promoted false claims that cloud seeding, a form of weather modification, played a role in the devastation. Meteorologists explain it doesn't work that way.
State lawmakers could soon be back at the Capitol considering better warnings for floods in Texas. Just days after the Guadalupe River rushed over its banks and killed dozens in Kerr County, Gov. Greg Abbott confirmed to reporters a looming special session will focus on this critical issue.
League City City Council approved an increase in the city’s investment in water meters by allocating additional funds to purchase new water meters and upgrade existing ones.
A GOP state lawmaker who represents Kerr County says he likely would vote differently now on House Bill 13, which would have established a grant program for counties to build new emergency communication infrastructure.
A "worst case scenario" of meteorological events contributed to the extreme flash flooding event that killed dozens of people in the region, according to experts.
The city of Taylor loves its ducks so much that they’ve named streets after them and turned the bird into the school district’s and the city’s mascot, but right now, they actually have too many of a certain kind of duck.
The possibility of selling water from Toledo Bend to Texas has been has been brought up again, and with it fears from Toledo Bend residents about how that would affect the lake. The executive director of the Sabine River Authority (SRA) says he understands the concerns landowners in Toledo Bend have about water levels, but that residents will not know the difference.
The city of Friendswood annexed land near Lake Friendswood and could annex more in the future to extend Lake Friendswood Park on the city’s east side. Friendswood City Council voted unanimously to annex roughly 1.3 acres of land from the Slone Subdivision into the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction at its July 7 meeting.
Rainfall began July 4 and has since caused some areas of Lake Travis to increase more than 14 feet, data from the LCRA shows. The influx of rain has resulted in flooding, which increases the amount of flood debris, fast-moving water flows and bacteria, according to the news release.
The City of Bay City announced that it has been awarded $15 million to construct the North Water Treatment Plant and a 12-inch Transmission Line. The project marks a major milestone in securing the city’s water future, and the funding is provided by the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB).
The storage tank and pump station project is one of three interrelated projects to distribute additional water from the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority Western Canyon Project. The facility will be a 1 million gallon ground storage tank and a pump station facility with three high-service pumps, with space for a future fourth pump.
The city of Groveton is on its way to a better water system. At the July 25 meeting of the Groveton City Council, members approved a recommendation from its grant administrators, Schaumberg & Polk, to construct a second 80,000-gallon ground storage tank next to its existing tank.
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