By Kim Hilsenbeck A proposed interlocal agreement between the city of Kyle, Hays County and Mountain City would broker a deal between the three entities, but it has some area residents up in arms. Mountain City residents who attended their tiny town’s city council meeting Monday evening told the cou...

By Ashley Sava Closing the white zone of little-to-no water regulation could be affected by several bills moving through the Texas Legislature. Expansion of the boundaries of the Barton Springs/Edwards Aquifer Conservation District to cover a section of unprotected groundwater in Hays County is one ...

By Tim Doty    Open letter to Texas Sen. Charles Perry (R-Lubbock), Chair, Committee on Agriculture, Water and Rural Affairs   As the spokesman for the Sierra West Subdivision Property Owners Association that represents 140 homeowners and 400 – 500 residents, I wanted to tell you that our residents ...

By Moses Leos III An interlocal agreement that requires a swap of extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) between Kyle and Mountain City could vastly change the landscape of the Hays County water wars. On Tuesday, Kyle City Council voted 7-0 to move forward with negotiations and execution of an agreemen...

By Kim Hilsenbeck Much of the fighting among major stakeholders in the Electro Purification (EP) well project and its opponents has been in public meetings, at testimony hearings and in the media.  But on Monday, key players in the ongoing saga sat down at the state capital to try to come to agreeme...

By Kim Hilsenbeck The cross-county water fight between the Wimberley/Driftwood area and Buda heated up this week as Hays County Commissioner Will Conley used his Facebook page to call out Mayor Todd Ruge in an open letter, calling the city’s testimony at the capitol Monday “a disgrace.” Buda’s Assis...

By Ashley Sava The debate about the Electro Purification (EP) well project continued Tuesday in Hays County Commissioners Court as a neutral scientist weighed in on the data. District Senior Hydrologist and Aquifer Science Team Leader Brian Smith with the Barton Springs/Edwards Aquifer Conservation ...

At last week’s meeting of the Goforth Special Utility District, the board president exhorted the audience to “be neighborly.” I’m not quite sure what her definition of neighborly is.  In my neighborhood, we don’t reach over to our neighbor’s property and take something that they are using just becau...

By Kim Hilsenbeck Should property owners in western Hays County with wells panic because a private company is planning large draws on the aquifer underneath their land? Electro Purification (EP), a water company from Houston with planned wells between Wimberley and Driftwood, says the recent conster...

Group files suit to halt EP well project By Moses Leos III In another chapter of the Hays County water wars, a nonprofit group aims to bring a Trinity Aquifer well project to a temporary halt. The Trinity Edwards Springs Protection Association (TESPA) filed suit Friday in Hays County District Court ...