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On March 11, 2013, the Board of Trustees of the San Antonio Water System approved water and wastewater service to Crescent Hills, a development located entirely in Comal County on the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone. This 1,545 acre tract, bordered by the newly acquired Cibolo Canyon Preserve and the Bracken Bat Preserve, is too high density for the Recharge Zone. Planned to build out at four houses per acre, Crescent Hills does not comply with San Antonio’s impervious cover restrictions. It is estimated that San Antonio Water System (SAWS) will need to secure an additional 976 acre feet per year to

The National and International Conference on Groundwater April 28-May 2, 2013 • San Antonio, Texas Groundwater is a resource to be protected. It ignores political boundaries, transports contaminants, floods mine and construction sites, spins communities into an uproar, and can’t be found when you need it. Model, explore, characterize, bank, inject, extract, treat, and predict all your subsurface needs with everything groundwater at the 2013 NGWA® Summit. Conference program This year’s Summit program with more than 192 presenters offers 32 platform presentations in nine tracks, 25 posters in two sessions, two panel presentations, a half-dozen “twilight” sessions, and more. Click here

GEAA is pleased to announce the third year of The Reliant EcoShareSM, a way that Texans can support GEAA and offset their own carbon production at the same time. Reliant and EarthShare of Texas have launched a program that allows Reliant customers to help reduce their carbon footprints through the purchase of carbon offsets. And for each customer-purchased offset, Reliant will make a contribution to EarthShare of Texas and its participating organizations. As an EarthShare of Texas participating organization, GEAA will benefit from this program. For more information, follow this link to the EarthShare of Texas website http://www.earthshare-texas.org/2012/02/the-reliant-ecosharesm-program-supports-texas.html or go directly