District News
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Next Board Meeting: December 14, 2023 Public Hearing

Drought Update – October 2023

Record Heat to Record Cold September seamlessly extended the scorching and arid conditions that characterized this summer. The persistent heat dome, an area of elevated upper-level high pressure, maintained its grip on our region for

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Next Board Meeting: November 9, 2023 – Public Hearing

Attendees sit in the audience as they listen to BSEACD board members speak

Next Board Meeting: October 12, 2023 – Public Hearing

People sit in chairs at the BSEACD Board Meeting and listen to board members speak.

GMA 10 Open Meeting: October 16, 2023

BSEACD and HTGCD staff measure flow at Pleasant Valley Spring. They're standing in the river with a rock wall in the background.

Middle Trinity Aquifer Synoptic

Jeff Watson, Staff Hydrogeologist at BSEACD, measuring Pleasant Valley Spring flow on September 14, 2023 with Radu Boghici, Hydrogeologist at Hays Trinity GCD. This month the District began conducting a synoptic survey of the Middle

Drought Update: September 2023

Blue Hole Regional Park on September 1, 2023. Photo by City of Wimberley Parks and Recreation Department. It’s been almost a year since the District declared Stage III Critical Drought on October 20, 2022. Since

A Message from the General Manager – September 2023

By Tim Loftus, General Manager of the Barton Springs/Edwards Aquifer Conservation District For the second year in a row, low flow in the Mississippi River is causing problems. Thanks to a lack of rainfall in

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Next Board Meeting: September 14, 2023

Drought Update: August 2023

Record Heat for the Texas Hill Country August has been a continuation of this summer’s incredibly hot and dry conditions. According to KXAN, August 17, 2023 reached 110 degrees and tied for the third hottest

Next Board Meeting: September 10, 2023 – Two Public Hearings

Drought Update: July 2023

Dry, Hot Weather Exacerbates Drought Conditions    Extreme heat across Central Texas has been a mainstay of news headlines over the past couple of months. Following an abnormally hot June, according to the Austin American-Statesman, we’re