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The Lone Star Current – October 2024 Edition
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Service Failures During Hurricane Beryl Attract Legislative and Regulatory Attention
by Roslyn Warner and Jake Dyer On the heels of a May 2024 derecho, Hurricane Beryl made landfall near Matagorda, Texas on July 8, 2024 leaving more than 2.7 million Texans without power and resulting in ongoing political and regulatory… Read More
SUD Conversion: A Hail Mary for WSCs
by Danielle Lam While the population in Texas hit 30 million in 2022, the State’s water supplies are struggling to keep up with the growth.1 The Texas Water Development Board’s (“TWDB”) 2022 State Water Plan predicts that in the next… Read More
Public Utility Commission Establishes the ERCOT Reliability Standard
by Rick Arnett The Public Utility Commission of Texas (“PUC”), after a year and a half of deliberation, adopted the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (“ERCOT”) reliability standard. ERCOT will now simulate market conditions—such as available power supply, weatherization efforts,… Read More
Impact Fees: What’s the Impact OF That?
by David Klein Adopting and implementing water and wastewater impact fees can be a very useful (and in some instances critical) tool for a municipality or water district (“District”) to generate the needed revenues to pay for the rising costs… Read More
Texas Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in Critical Water Quality Case
by Nathan Vasser The Supreme Court of Texas heard oral argument on October 1, 2024 in a case that carries implications for both deference to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s (“TCEQ’s”) discharge permitting as well as to underlying antidegradation… Read More
Municipal Corner
The Attorney General resolves question concerning public service appointments and nepotism laws. Tex. Att’y Gen. Op. KP-0471 (2024). The Erath County Attorney requested an opinion from the Texas Attorney General (the “AG”) to resolve questions relating to the Erath County… Read More
“Ask Sarah” Column
Dear Sarah, Our employee handbook has a policy which says if an employee needs time away from work for a medical issue like an illness or injury, they must provide a doctor’s note which says they are released to return… Read More
In the Courts
Water Cases Aqua Tex., Inc. v. Hays Trinity Groundwater Conservation Dist., No. 1:23-CV-1576-DAE, 2024 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 172442 (W.D. Tex. 2024). Aqua Texas, a Texas retail public utility, alleged that on April 13, 2023, the Hays Trinity Groundwater Conservation District… Read More
Agency Highlights
United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) EPA Launches New Study Into “Produced Water” From Drilling Projects. EPA updated its website to announce plans for a study to investigate treatment technologies to reduce “produced” water from oil and gas drilling. “Produced”… Read More
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