The swimming area at Blue Hole Regional Park in Wimberley will be closed for the remainder of the year because the depth of the water is no longer safe, according to the city’s parks officials.
Editor's Note: The Texas Hill Country Conservation Network has created The Hill Country Land, Water, Sky and Natural Infrastructure Plan to protect natural resources in this area. This conservation series seeks to illuminate aspects of the plan, as well as other resource protection plans, looking at best management practices. This is the third part in the series.[San Marcos,
Officials with the Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer Conservation District anticipate declaring a Stage 4 exceptional drought, an unprecedented move expected to have wide impacts across the area.
Local water utility company Aqua Texas, which services the northern side of the Wimberley Valley, was fined nearly half a million dollars for pumping almost twice the amount of water it was allowed last year out of the Trinity Aquifer. The company is now contesting that fine.[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] Features San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]