February, 1st 2012
The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) was scheduled to
review two challenges and decide on the reasonableness of the Desired Future
Conditions for the Trinity Aquifer in the Texas Hill Country at their February
1st board meeting. At the
request of WVWA, the Board President granted a continuance yesterday and moved
the agenda item to the March 1st scheduled board meeting. TWDB is expected to rule on a protest to the
Desired Future Condition (DFC) goal adopted by GMA 9, a goal that some argue is
not sustainable. The proposed DFC allows
for an average of 30 feet of additional groundwater decline over the next 50
years (an average of 19 feet across Hays
County
Due to the fact that it takes only a 2 to 3 feet drop in
aquifer level above Jacob’s Well to cause the spring to stop flowing, WVWA
appealed the ruling to the TWDB on the grounds that this level of decline is
unreasonable and unsustainable as it fails to protect the flow of water to
individual well owners and to the springs and creeks that are the economic
engines of the Hill Country. Read
more about WVWA’s appeal.
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