Photo by Thomas Waymouth The article below has been shared from the Wimberley View. Dalton Sweat Editor KEVIN FOWLER Kevin Fowler’s proposal for a new restaurant facility along Cypress Creek was approved by the city of Wimberley’s Board of Adjustment after he made significant changes to the project to accommodate concerns voiced in the … Continue reading New restaurant gets approval to build along Cypress Creek
LCRA Griffith League Ranch Application (2018) Location of LCRA’s Proposed Wells on Griffith League Scout Ranch, Bastrop County, TX (click map for larger view) The map shows the location of the proposed well-field site in Bastrop County, TX. The well-field is approximately northeast of FM1441 and northwest of HWY 21 going northeast out of Bastrop. The … Continue reading LCRA seeks permit for 25,000 acre-feet/yr of groundwater from Griffith Scout Ranch
EP requested that BSEACD refer all of the contested cases to SOAH. Under the law, as the applicant, they have the right to do this. This means that EP has to pay for the SOAH hearing, and they have deposited $70,000 with BSEACD to sign a contract with SOAH to conduct the hearing. Remember, the … Continue reading SOAH Hearing for EP
Diverse Partners Protect Hamilton Pool Road Corridor (Dripping Springs, TX) – On Monday, July 30th, Travis County and the Puryear family celebrated the closing of a real estate deal on their 423-acre historic ranch. Unlike most real estate deals, however, this one allows them to stay on the land, where their family has lived for … Continue reading Three Additional Ranches Conserved with Travis County Bonds
By Seamus McGraw July 26, 2018 Even in the best of times, water in Texas has always been an ornery and mercurial resource. It falls from the sky in torrents in the sodden eastern counties along the Gulf of Mexico and falls sometimes not at all in the parched counties to the west where, in … Continue reading Water Crisis in the Making: Antiquated Texas Laws Meet a Hotter Climate