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Check it out! Texas Water Resource Institute’s Newsletter

June 2, 2009

TWRI’s New Waves 2009 e-newsletter includes great articles relevant to water resource protection in Central Texas. Topics that might interest GEAA members include: a request for applications for the Mills Scholarship (for graduate students interested in water issues); TCEQ and TSSWCB’s annual report on Texas water quality; studies on new “smart” home irrigation units; and USGS’s new karst website. To view the newsletter, click here.

81st Legislature Status

May 19, 2009

With two weeks left of the 81st Legislative Session, we need to do all that we can to promote the bills that managed to make it out of committee! Here’s a list of bills that we’re still watching: SB 1414 Williams – Quarry Registration and Inspection Requires registration of a quarry operation with the TCEQ prior to beginning extraction activities, and annual renewal of registration as extraction activities continue. TCEQ will annually conduct a physical survey of the state to identify all quarry operations in Texas and ensure that each operation is registered. Additionally, TCEQ will inspect each quarry operation for

Noche Verde May 14: Benefit for GEAA, BuildSA Green, USGBC & Green Spaces Alliance

May 5, 2009

Don’t miss your chance to party and shop to benefit your favorite green causes! Big Grass Bamboo is throwing a fundraiser for us on Thursday, May 14th. They will also donate 10% of all sales made between Thursday, May 14th and Sunday the 17th to us, so you can buy a beautiful rain barrel to save water and support GEAA! Check out the online invitation for more details! Hope to see you there… GEAA Staff

Hays County Greenprint Stakeholder Meeting: Monday, June 1st

May 1, 2009

Please save the date for the next Hays County Greenprint Stakeholder meeting: Monday, June 1st 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Dripping Springs ISD Central Administration Building Boardroom 510 West Mercer St, Dripping Springs Light refreshments will be served At this final Greenprint Stakeholder meeting, we will finalize the overall conservation priority maps, discuss conservation funding opportunities, and brainstorm next steps for communities to use these maps and other strategies related to parks/open space that were raised at our first two meetings. Your attendance is critical to make sure that the “overlap” map, which will serve as the primary opportunity map for

Call for Action: U.S. Surface Transportation Act

May 1, 2009

In the next few weeks, the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will consider reauthorizing the Surface Transportation Act. We need your help to tell Congress to use this opportunity to reduce stormwater runoff pollution from the nation’s 985,139 miles of federal highway. These roads and highways, built with federal taxpayer dollars, have an enormous negative impact on water quality throughout the nation. Stormwater runoff carried from these roads impairs nearby lakes, streams, and rivers by dumping high volume, high velocity flows into waterways, which erodes streambanks and fills them with deicing agents, toxic metals, nitrogen, phosphorus, bacteria, and sediment. Before

S.B. 2222: Worthy of Our Support

April 30, 2009

Time is getting short to move important legislation onto the floor. Please take a minute to call or email your Representatives and Senators about S.B. 2222. As you may know, intense development is increasingly impinging upon the critical military mission at Camp Bullis in northern Bexar County. As land surrounding Camp Bullis is developed, endangered Golden Cheeked Warblers are relocating to the base, thus limiting the land available to the military to conduct training. It goes without saying that the Army contributes immensely to the local ecnomony, but their presence has meant good stewardship of several thousand acres over the Edwards

Newly released report from GEAA Policy Director Rachel Hanes: “Water for Residents: Ensuring housing solutions do not worsen the water crisis in the Edwards and Trinity aquifer region,”

February 6, 2025

More below from Chad Swiatecki Austin Monitor Thursday, February 6, 2025

Hundreds turned out for the Scenic Loop Helotes Creek Alliance’s Million Gallon March to demonstrate oppostition to Lennar’s Guajolote development in Grey Forest on Sunday Feb. 2nd 2025.

February 6, 2025

The march hosted by Scenic Loop Helotes Creek Alliance was meant to demonstrate the million gallons per day of sewage effluent that will flow into Helotes Creek

Million Gallon March- Sunday Feb. 2nd 2-4pm

January 29, 2025

The Scenic Loop Helotes Creek Alliance is holding a meeting and Million Gallon March to demonstrate opposition to Lennar’s Guajolote development in Grey Forest.

Lennar Homes faces backlash over sewage discharge plans in the Hill Country

January 27, 2025

By Zachary-Taylor Wright MySA Jan. 24, 2025. The builder wants to discharge 600,000 gallons a day of treated water into creeks https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/wastewater-dumping-texas-hill-country-20041291.php

New GEAA Member Group Comfort Neighbors, holdong second Town Hall meeting on Saturday, January 25th, 2025 at 2pm to organize opposition to Lennar’s Comfort 590 development.

January 17, 2025

The meeting will take place at the The Lobby Coffee Shop 523 Seveth St. Comfort, TX. If you are unable to attend but would like

Scenic Loop Helotes Creek Alliance holding a meeting and Million Gallon March to demonstrate oppostition to Lennar’s Guajolote development in Grey Forest. SUNDAY FEB. 2nd 2025!!!