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  • About Us
    • - Who We Are
      • - - Waterkeeper Alliance Affiliate
      • - - Volunteers
    • - What We Do
      • - - Purposes
      • - - Our Goal
  • Public Policy
    • - Water Stewardship
    • - Water Planning
    • - Opportunity Bastrop County
    • - Surface Water Policies
      • - - Boring Company to Dispose of Wastewater into Colorado River
      • - - Corix/McKinney Roughs Wastewater Permit Application
      • - - Environmental Flows
      • - - LCRA Water Management Plan
      • - - Watershed Protection
      • - - Bastrop Watershed Plan
    • - Groundwater Policies
      • - - Groundwater Management Area 12 (GMA-12)
        • - - - GMA-12 DFC Review (2018-22)
        • - - - GMA-12 DFC Review (2013-17)
          • - - - - ES Comments on GMA-12 Proposed DFCs
        • - - - GMA-12 DFC Appeal (2011-12)
        • - - - TWDB Staff Report
        • - - - Board Decision
        • - - - ES v TWDB
      • - - Lost Pines GCD
        • - - - Petition to Protect Colorado River
        • - - - Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA)
          • - - - - LCRA Griffith League Ranch Application (2018)
          • - - - - Contested Case Hearing on LCRA’s Groundwater Application
          • - - - - The science behind our protest of LCRA’s application
        • - - - Landowners’ Affected Persons Appeal
          • - - - - Defendant’s Appeal of District Court’s Judgement
        • - - - End Op, LP
          • - - - - End Op Contested Case Hearing
          • - - - - End Op’s Groundwater Permit
        • - - - Forestar (USA) Real Estate Group, Inc.
        • - - - Lost Pines Permit Process
        • - - - Permits
      • - - Alcoa Groundwater Application
      • - - ES Exhibits Opposing
      • - - GBRA Pipeline
  • Science & Ecology
    • - Colorado River Basin
    • - Flora & Fauna of the Colorado River
    • - Endangered Mussel Species in the Colorado River Basin
    • - “Exceptional” Aquatic Life Standard Threatened
    • - Low Inflows to Highland Lakes; a pending crisis?
    • - PFAS (forever chemicals) in Texas Colorado River
    • - Water Monitoring Project
    • - Groundwater-Surface Water Interaction
      • - - The Role of Groundwater Models in Managing Groundwater and Surface Water Resources
      • - - Groundwater Availability Model (GAM) Improvements for GMA-12
      • - - Surface Water-Groundwater Monitoring – Bastrop, TX.
      • - - Colorado River - Simsboro Aquifer Connection
      • - - Impact of Simsboro Pumping on Other Aquifers & Rivers
      • - - Where does the water come from?
    • - Groundwater Resources
      • - - Groundwater District Oversight
      • - - Groundwater Concerns in Bastrop and Lee Counties
      • - - Sustaining or Over-Pumping?
  • Outreach & Education
    • - Clear, Clean Colorado River Association
    • - Lost Pines Nature Trails and River Access: Tahitian Village
    • - Bastrop Paddling Trails
    • - Bastrop Spring
    • - Austin-Bastrop River Corridor Partnership
  • Contact Us
  • Donations
    • - Make A Donation
    • - Colorado River Fundraiser
  • News
    • - Environmental Stewardship
    • - Groundwater
      • - - Groundwater Districts
      • - - Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer
        • - - - Simsboro Aquifer
    • - Surface Water
      • - - Colorado River
      • - - Environmental Flows
    • - Science & Ecology
    • - Public Policy

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Environmental Stewardship

  One Earth, One Home   Humankind has only one home, the Earth. We have a stewardship responsibility to restore and maintain the Earth and its resources to a level that will sustain life both now and far into the future. Our activities are having an impact on critical processes that balance the biotic and…

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October 15, 2025Beth JonesUncategorizedColorado River, Environmental Stewardship, steve box, water laws

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