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"...$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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