2017 Calling. Does water quality reporting by an agency require water testing?

Wait, what’s happening? Its alleged that Texas Parks and Wildlife Department claimed it conducted testing to determine that it was safe for a company to drill near state park water sources.

What did the agency say first?  “oil wells are lower than or equal in depth to the springs. Since water “doesn’t flow up-gradient,” the park should not be affected by oil and gas drilling.”

Then what happened? Open records requests that produced np testing documents to verify the water safety

And where are we now? TPWD is “now collecting research and considering water testing”

Fuel Fix | Apache drilling won’t hurt Balmorhea springs, Texas park officials say

Fuel Fix | Texas Parks department admits it never studied impact of oil drilling on Balmorhea springs