Kinder Morgan downplayed the impact of a decision by Hays County Commissioners to rescind permission to cross county roads. That decision was made in the wake of a construction accident March 28 that sent tens
of thousands of gallons of drilling mud and drilling fluid into the Trinity Aquifer.

More than a month later, work remains stalled at that site in Blanco County near Chimney Rock Road.

Kinder Morgan spokesman Allen Fore told the Hays Free Press that the commissioners’ decision will have...