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Next Board Meeting: December 14, 2023 Public Hearing

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Next Board Meeting: November 9, 2023 – Public Hearing

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Next Board Meeting: October 12, 2023 – Public Hearing

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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

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

District Board Meeting in office

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

Dry Onion Creek in 2023

District Foresees Unprecedented Transition to Stage IV Exceptional Drought

Barton Springs’ 10-day average flow fell to 16 cubic feet per second (cfs) on July 24, 2023. This is based on field measurements collected by the Barton Springs-Edwards Aquifer Conservation District (the District). For reference,

Dried Blanco Texas River after a rain

Drought Update: June 2023

2023 Rainfall So Far We’re halfway through the year, and while April and May rains provided much-needed recharge to the Edwards and Trinity aquifers, we remain in Stage III Critical Drought. This was initially declared

A view down an Austin street that is covered in slick ice.

Winter Weather Preparations

An arctic cold front will move through South Central Texas during the day on Thursday. According to the National Weather Service, temperatures between 10 and 22 degrees and wind chills between -8 and 11 degrees

Exploring Antioch Cave

It’s been a while since we explored Antioch Cave. But with little water currently flowing through Onion Creek, this was the perfect time to do it. Antioch Cave is situated on Onion Creek about 1.3