More people, developments, water demand and wastewater spell a murky future for critical...
Upper Cibolo Creek runs through largely undeveloped land between the creek’s headwaters and Boerne City Lake.The Texas Hill Country has long been lauded as the Land of 1,100 Springs, but there’s trouble brewing in those pristine waters.
Those many springs — however many of them are actually left, no one’s quite sure — supply water to an estimated 4 million Texans. They feed the headwaters of 12 major rivers that call the Hill Country home and snake through Central Texas before reaching the Gulf of Mexico. As of 2018, for instance, there were permit applications to dump at least 2.1 billion gallons of treated wastewater each year into Hill Country waters, according to the 2021 State of the Hill Country report. That wastewater, even if highly treated, contains high levels of phosphorous that can cause algae blooms, threaten endangered species, and jeopardize the natural beauty of all the region’s bodies of water.
Throughout much of the western portions of the Hill Country, like Uvalde, Mason, Bandera and Kerrville, residents use between 135 and 200 gallons per day, on average. The number creeps up steadily around the immediate outskirts of metro areas and in the metro cities themselves. Milan Michalec is the Precinct 2 director and the president of the Cow Creek Groundwater Conservation District in Boerne. He cautions against having a “doomsday” view of the groundwater situation in the Hill Country, even though “systems are beginning to become stressed,” he said.
When someone flushes a toilet, drains a sink, takes a shower, hoses down a dog, fills a pool, or does any number of other things that require fresh, clean water, all that now-dirty water has to go somewhere.
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