The Wimberley City Council was struggling last week with the placement of easements for its new wastewater system. They had imposed a deadline of today.

The council didn’t take any action at its Oct. 31 meeting, even though the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) has said that without an easement crossing Cypress Creek, the city will have a “dead project.”

“When I see the words ‘dead project’ in all caps, bolded, underlined and in quotation marks. I’m a l...