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There was an article today's Statesman that made me smile.  I am not opposed to development in the Hill Country, but I don't like high density.  What made me smile was reading about developer Russell Hinds having changed his development quite a bit.  What was to have been a 400 hone development has been replatted into ...

If you live on Lake Travis or are buying property on Lake Travis, you may be wondering about using Lake Travis water for household use and landscape irrigation.  The answer is probably yes.  What you need to do is contact Anissa Menefee at the LCRA at 800-776-5272, ext. 3231.  What you should be able to do is contract with the LCRA ...

Well, not mine, but...  I was driving down Lakeway Blvd yesterday morning and saw the sprinklers running in the grassy median.  It absolutely poured down rain the previous day and the ground should have been saturated, meaning that any water flowing through the sprinkler heads this morning was being wasted.  Lakeway should spend the ...

There was an article in the newspaper this morning about Williamson County Commissioners backing a purchase of 1011 acres south of Liberty Hill for a park.  The purchase price is reported to be $10.6.  The county was considering another smaller property that carried a higher price tag, but didn't go for that one.  There was no ...

The LCRA is thinking about raising the price it charges for water in some rural areas of Central Texas.  They claim that the topography of the Hill Country is such that their cost to run water lines is very expensive.  because of this, the LCRA wants to raise the cost it charges users of its water as much as 41%.  The area in which ...

Thanks to some good rain over a wide area a week ago, Lake Travis is up about 6 feet.  This is a big deal because the lake has been so low.  Six feet isn't much considering that Lake Travis was about 36 feet low before the rain, but it is a start.  With the lake falling several inches a day without the rain, this small rise will ...

Hutto is a small town to the northeast of Austin that has seen tremendous growth lately.  The population of Hutto has literally gone up by over 800% over the past few years.  For reasons unknown to me, the city entered into water contracts with several different suppliers.  These agreements have caused Hutto to buy far more ...

As more and more homes and businesses are built in the Central Texas area, the supply of water is a huge concern of mine. The lakes and aquifers can only sustain us so long without extensive conservation. As water becomes more scarce, it will become more expensive. So what can we do? What we need to do is look at what water can be re-used or ...

That is what the sign said at Tank Town,  which might be the only place in the country that sells bottled rain water.  This is a place to the west of Dripping Springs, TX that has roofs to collect rainfall and tanks to store it.  I love it, but there is a lot more to the story than good bottled water. The folks at Tank Town ...