Staff Report

As construction of the Kinder Morgan Permian Highway Pipeline progresses across the Texas Hill Country, the Hays Trinity Groundwater District is urging the owners of water wells to register them.

Construction on the 430-mile, 42-inch natural gas pipeline is currently halted near Chimney Rock Road in Blanco County, where a karst feature was hit March 28 while a contractor was attempting the first of two required bores under the Blanco River, but continues elsewhere.

The karst fracture f...