Senate Interim Charge & TWDB Public Comment Align

The Texas Water Development Board is soliciting public comment on brackish groundwater production zones. 

  • Goal: Reduce the use of fresh groundwater, identify brackish groundwater zones
  • Public Input in person: 
    • ​10:00 AM, October 26, 2015
    • Room 170 of the Stephen F. Austin Building, 1700 North Congress Avenue, Austin, Texas
  • Public Comment in Writing:
    • Deadline 10/30/2015
    • submitted to Dr. Sanjeev Kalaswad, Director of Conservation & Innovative Water Technologies, by letter (Texas Water Development Board, P.O. Box 13231, Austin, TX 78711-3231), by email (sanjeev.kalaswad@twdb.texas.gov), or by fax (512-936-0816).

Here’s the exact wording of the Senate Interim charge to Ag., Water & Rurual Affairs on this same issue: 

  • Specifically monitor the Texas Water Development Board’s process in the identification and designation of brackish groundwater zones. 

Texas Water Development Board 

Senate Interim Charges to Ag., Water & Rural Affairs

2015’s House Bill 30 on brackish groundwater zones