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Monitor Wells
Groundwater levels provide critical information about the hydrologic relationships of recharge and discharge to storage within an aquifer, and the direction of groundwater flow. The District maintains over 40 monitor wells to track water levels using continuous-recording instruments or periodic manual measurements. The District monitors groundwater levels within the Edwards, Upper and Middle Trinity Aquifers. […]
Groundwater Tracing Study of the Barton Springs Segment of the Edwards Aquifer
Nico M. Hauwert, P.G. Hydrogeologist and James W. Sansom, Jr., P.G. Hydrogeologist, Barton Springs/Edwards Aquifer Conservation District David A. Johns, Hydrogeologist, City of Austin Watershed Protection and Development Review Department Thomas J. Aley, Hydrogeologist, Ozark Underground Laboratory PREPARED IN COOPERATION WITH THE TEXAS NATURAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION COMMISSION AND U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY September 2004 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: […]
Press Release: Aquifer District Seeks to Continue Its Opposition to City of Dripping Springs’s Wastewater Discharge Plan in Contested Case
For Immediate Release: Friday, March 23, 2018 For more information, contact: Robin Gary, Senior Public Information and Education Coordinator, (512) 282-8441 or rhgary@bseacd.org Aquifer District Seeks to Continue Its Opposition to City of Dripping Springs’s Wastewater Discharge Plan in Contested Case At its March 22, 2018, meeting the Board of Directors of the Barton Springs/Edwards […]
Job Posting: General Manager
Open until filled. JOB SUMMARY The Barton Springs/Edwards Aquifer Conservation District (District) is a Groundwater Conservation District with jurisdictional area including parts of Travis, Hays, and Caldwell counties. The General Manager (GM) of the District functions as the chief operating officer responsible for managing all District operations to serve the District’s mission of conserving, protecting, […]
Habitat Conservation Plan update
On February 8, 2018, the District Board of Directors unanimously approved the District’s responses to all public comments on the Draft HCP and their incorporation into the Final HCP. The Final HCP represents the culmination of many years of work by directors, staff, and stakeholders to protect endangered salamanders that make the Barton Springs Aquifer […]
Austin Cave Festival
Update on Current Dye-Trace Studies in the Upper Onion Creek Watershed, Hays County, Texas
Introduction A consortium of central Texas agencies and groundwater scientists conducted a series of studies of the Trinity Aquifers that culminated in publication of the Hydrogeologic Atlas of the Hill Country Trinity Aquifer (Wierman et al., 2010). A continuation of those studies has revealed a hydrologic connection between the Middle Trinity Aquifer and the Blanco […]
Weather Delay: District office will open at 10am
Due to inclement weather, the District will have a delayed opening today, Wednesday, January 17, 2018.
Weather closure
Due to inclement weather the District office will be closed today, Tuesday, January 16, 2018.