Editorial

Bydyoungblood August 28, 2024August 28, 2024

Click the link below to read the editorial which was in last weeks newspaper about the Public Meeting with TCEQ and ArchRay.

http://www.pedernalesriveralliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/ArchRay-Editorial-8.21.24-2.pdf

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Texas Standard Interview with HCA’s Katherine Romans
Bydyoungblood April 18, 2024

By Michael MarksFebruary 9, 2024 2:47 pm Audio version: https://www.texasstandard.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Development-in-the-Hill-Country-020924.mp3 There’s a new luxury development coming to the Hill Country. CB Wine Tourism – a Mexican real estate company – purchased 218 acres between Fredericksburg and Johnson City to build homes, a spa, restaurants and retail amid the numerous wineries along Highway 290. Projects of this kind…

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Let’s “Save it, Don’t Pave it!”
Bydyoungblood May 13, 2023April 13, 2024

Recently, I saw a phrase on a t-shirt: Save it, Don’t Pave it! (https://aquiferalliance.org). The Aquifer Alliance is attempting to raise awareness of how detrimental concrete can be to the Edwards Aquifer. We here in Gillespie County need your help with our own aquifer, the Ellenburger Aquifer, which provides most of the drinking water for…

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Contested Case Hearing
Bydyoungblood February 5, 2025

Some of you may have received a ton of paper from TCEQ this past week. You are receiving it because you made comments concerning The Village at Fredericksburg’s (used to be Grape Creek) permit to dump 20,000 gallons of Type 1 effluent into Beckmann Branch. The Branch is actually a recharge zone for the Hensel…

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Water. Can’t live without it. But are you able to live with less?
Bydyoungblood October 22, 2023April 13, 2024

Author: Deb Youngblood On a recent visit with Kris Kneese, Director of Public Works & Utilities for the city of Fredericksburg, I learned the latest estimate of per person per day use of water in Fredericksburg is 200 gallons (about the volume of a large refrigerator). Something else I learned from Kris is that every…

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Texas Well Owner Network
Bydyoungblood August 4, 2025August 4, 2025

The recent floodings in the Texas Hill Country has left many of us wondering what we need to do to protect our well(s). The Texas Well Owner Network has put together handouts to answer some of our questions. Here is a list: Hope these resources help to answer some of the questions and concerns.

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Protecting the Pedernales and The Dangers of Direct Discharge
Bydyoungblood February 9, 2025February 9, 2025

The Pedernales River is one of Texas’s most cherished waterways, an ecological, recreational, and cultural treasure that defines the Hill Country. As stewards of this vital resource, the Pedernales River Alliance (PRA) has opposed the wastewater permit application (WQ0016363001) submitted by the Village at Grape Creek (now the Village at Fredericksburg) to the Texas Commission…

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