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Election Results
"...$121 million for Prop. 10, to expand the city's
wastewater
system capacity...."
Nov. 6, 1998
News Feature
Septic Overload?
LCRA Waits in Wings While City Ponders Sewer Service
"...Colorado River Authority, a relatively new player in the
wastewater
service game, has discussed providing West Lake with the..."
Aug. 21, 1998
News Column
by
Jenny Staff
Cracks in the System
Is the City's Minority Procurement Process Up to Par?
"...contract to do a survey for a Water &
Wastewater
Project, the contract was postponed by the council. At..."
Sept. 19, 1997
News Feature
by
Chris Walters
Developers' Gift Horse
"...-- commissioners on June 3 passed new subdivision and
wastewater
rules that they hope will help the county manage..."
June 27, 1997
News Feature
Rose-Colored MUD
"...Why is the LCRA getting into the water and
wastewater
business?..."
Feb. 7, 1997
News Feature
Naked City
Off the Desk:
"...is the LCRA's proposed $4 million acquisition of the water/
wastewater
system of FM Properties' developments on Barton Creek. Neither..."
Jan. 24, 1997
News Feature
Off the Desk
"...in state funds already alloted for installing water and
wastewater
and other basic amenities in the substandard colonias communities..."
Aug. 2, 1996
News Feature
Neither a Lender, Nor a Borrower Be...
1995-96 City Budget: Bond Debt and the Capital Budget
"...issued out of revenue-generating departments like the Electric and Water/
Wastewater
Utilities, and is repaid by ratepayers. Revenue debt, which..."
Sept. 1, 1995
News Feature
Peeling Back De Layers
The Latest Budget Shell Game
"...Information Systems, Small and Minority Business Resources, Water and
Wastewater
, Law, Purchasing, Budget and Building Services."..."
Sept. 1, 1995
News Feature
Council Watch
High Chairs, Water Systems, and Jails
"...At last Thursday's meeting, water and
wastewater
staff had failed to answer a litany of questions..."
July 21, 1995
News Column
Arch-Subversive
"...own electricity. Instead of importing drinking water and exporting
wastewater
to distant treatment plants through miles of expensive pipes,..."
July 7, 1995
News Feature
by
Robert Bryce
Freeport Wins Small
Thousands and Thousands of Dollars
"...his residential sections work financially. Those commercial sections need
wastewater
service (read: a city sewer), and most require zoning..."
May 19, 1995
News Feature
by
Daryl Slusher
Can a Veteran Oil Man Clean Up the Railroad Commission’s Mess?
Bill Burch is running to raise awareness of groundwater contamination
"...Chevron well abandoned in 1995 was now spewing toxic
wastewater
. “I thought, 'Oh, shit, our worst-case scenario in the..."
Feb. 23, 2024
News Feature
by
Lina Fisher
How a Small Town Has Fared as a Microchip Factory Brings in Billions
Has Taylor, TX, become Boomtown, TX?
"...of last year, TCEQ was actively investigating them for
wastewater
discharge that turned a nearby creek orange. The year..."
April 28, 2023
News Feature
by
Abe Asher
Proposed Amphitheater Near Dripping Springs Faces Neighbor Opposition
Traffic concerns clash with 5,000-capacity plans off Fitzhugh Road
"...the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to discuss the
wastewater
permit needed for the site...."
Jan. 6, 2023
Music Post
by
Chad Swiatecki
The Texas Hammer: Save Our Springs (If They’ll Let Us)
Austin's environmental values are in perennial conflict with the legislators
"...is currently seeking a state permit to discharge treated
wastewater
into Onion Creek (a major contributor to Barton Springs),..."
March 17, 2017
News Feature
by
Michael King
District 4: The Long Shots
Challengers face tough road against well-funded incumbent
"...city government, transportation, and city services (fire, police, water,
wastewater
, etc.)." He says his long experience in state environmental..."
Aug. 26, 2016
News Feature
by
Michael King
Who’s in the Pilot House?
Backlash against affordable housing deal spurs mayoral response
"...to redirect a portion of the developer’s water and
wastewater
fees to a special affordable housing fund ($50-$80 million..."
Feb. 9, 2016
News Post
by
Michael King
Halloween Storm Update
Closures everywhere and tornado warnings
"...water utility has confirmed that floodwater did enter the
wastewater
collection system at three facilities, with
wastewater
in Barton..."
Oct. 30, 2015
News Post
by
Richard Whittaker
Deep Conservation Needed
"...decentralized concept is the idea that storm water and
wastewater
are most effectively and efficiently managed by treating it..."
Sept. 2, 2014
Postmarks
Water Use Sinking, Rates Rising
Austin Water officials agree something's got to give
"...The joint committee – formed from the Water &
Wastewater
Commission, Resource Management Commission, and Impact Fee Advisory Committee..."
April 11, 2014
News Feature
by
Amy Smith
Austin's Water Prospectors
New city rules have slowed the demand, but urban wells remain a hot commodity in wealthy neighborhoods
"...or planned wells on properties that receive water or
wastewater
service from the city. The registration mandate, and $90..."
Nov. 15, 2013
News Feature
by
Amy Smith
Council: Imagine Comprehensively
Zoning and proclaimations crowd next week's agenda
"...subcontractors – and also raised and equalized water and
wastewater
impact fees for new developments, a change that may..."
Nov. 1, 2013
News Feature
by
Michael King
Then There's This: City May Buy Aquifer Land Slated for Sewage
Judge's order offers only clue that talks are in progress
"...sure the developer will argue the value includes a
wastewater
permit they don't have," said SOS executive director Bill..."
Oct. 4, 2013
News Column
by
Amy Smith
Then There's This: Waste Over the Aquifer
With settlement, city must now support treatment plant in recharge zone
"...would have ended its six-year fight against a proposed
wastewater
treatment system in a recharge zone of the Edwards..."
Sept. 13, 2013
News Column
by
Amy Smith
Water Major Facet of Sustainability
"...to pay the $8.1 million to extend a large
wastewater
main to the track site to make the "waste"..."
Nov. 19, 2012
Postmarks
Water Fall
Between Austin Water's conservation goals and its execution ... lies a shadow
"...that in January, AW had "the highest combined residential water/
wastewater
rates of the 10 largest cities in Texas." Each..."
June 17, 2011
News Feature
by
Nora Ankrum
TDH: 6/3/11
SoCo construction controversy; closures at West Campus, Riverside
"...Sunday, June 5, for work related to the Downtown
Wastewater
Tunnel. Reductions will be around the clock until project..."
June 3, 2011
News Post
by
Wells Dunbar
All Rolled Up in Formula One
F1 backers receive a key vote from City Council
"...unanimously to reimburse the developers for laying water and
wastewater
pipe in the area. However, the vote was predicated..."
Nov. 26, 2010
News Feature
by
Richard Whittaker
WTP4: $300 Million in One Gulp?
Council considers handing over remaining Water Treatment Plant No. 4 funds all at once
"...to requests from prospective [subcontracting] bidders." The Water and
Wastewater
Commission disagreed, voting 4-1, with one abstention, against the..."
Nov. 19, 2010
News Feature
by
Wells Dunbar
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