Let’s All Get Smarter Together
River Communities will be gathering to learn about riparian areas and recovery on the river. Scroll down to see more…
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Editorial
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
Discharging Treated Effluent into Hill Country Streams and Creeks – Myths and Truths
The Hill Country Alliance (HCA) is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to raise public awareness and build community support around the need to preserve the natural resources and heritage of the Central Texas Hill Country. They create resources, conversations and forums for landowners, neighbors, elected officials and all concerned citizens. The Pedernales River Alliance…
Protecting the Pedernales and The Dangers of Direct Discharge
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…
Runoff
The Water Cycle When it rains, runoff is the water that does not soak into the ground; it is the water that runs downhill, into the manmade drainage systems. It is the water that runs to the creeks and rivers to the oceans. It is the water that is not soaked into the earth, and…
What 2.5″ of Rain Looks Like on the River
There are lots of folks who think of the Pedernales River as a sleepy little stream, hardly worth concern. However, it can carry a lot of water downstream after a rain. Here are a few pictures that contrast the normal flow of our “sleepy” river after a cumulative rainfall of 2.5″ on June 8, 2023….
What’s a Watershed?
A watershed is a system, land that drains rain and melting snow to creeks and then rivers and eventually, the ocean. Most of us here in Gillespie County live in the Pedernales River Watershed. Near the headwaters of the Pedernales are two areas of land where water drains to a creek and each land area…