Drought Update: September 2026
District’s Current Drought Status: Stage 3 Exceptional Drought Figure 1. Monthly deviation from average and monthly total rainfall in District’s territory for 2026. Rainfall Recap September was exceptionally dry across Central Texas. Camp Mabry recorded just 0.47 inches of rain, while Austin – Bergstrom International Airport (ABIA) received only 0.08 inches. Averaged between the two […]
Barton Springs-Edwards Aquifer Conservation District Awarded $298,000 TWDB Grant to Advance Trinity Aquifer Groundwater Modeling
The Barton Springs-Edwards Aquifer Conservation District (District) has been awarded $298,000 through the Texas Water Development Board’s (TWDB) Groundwater Science, Research, and Data Collection Grants Program to develop a local numerical groundwater model that will support groundwater management in Hays and southern Travis counties. The grant was approved out of a $3,564,449 appropriation by the […]