A Houston-based firm at the center of controversy in 2015 is now looking to draw roughly one billion gallons of water per year from the Trinity Aquifer.
Electro Purification (EP), which had failed in its attempt to secure water in 2015, submitted a request to the Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer Conservation District (BSEACD) to pump water from wells on land located between Kyle and Wimberley.
EP’s application was submitted on July 13, 2017 to the BSEACD for the purposes of wholesale water supply. The request for 912.5 million gallons annually amounts to pumping 2.5 million gallons of water from the Trinity Aquifer per day… Read more from Hays Free Press