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Oct. 24, 2006 Postmarks
Who's Paying for LCRA Growth?
The LCRA’s wholesale customers are asking tough questions about the agency’s expensive expansion
"...electric revenues are effectively subsidizing the utility's water and wastewater projects and other agency operations. "We are consistently being..."
Oct. 6, 2006 News Feature by Amy Smith
Naked City
Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond
"...that it recommends locating the new Lower Brushy Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant on Site B, a swath of wooded..."
Sept. 22, 2006 News Feature
City Budget Breakdown
The final presentation of the city's $525.3 million proposed budget for fiscal year 2007 is Friday, Aug. 31; the focus: Major Utilities and Infrastructure and Growth Management – yea haw!
"...$342.1 million, primarily funded (94%) by water sales and wastewater service...."
Sept. 1, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar
WTP No. 4: Still migrating
Stakeholders at city and county level struggle to catch up with City Council's decision about plant location
"...Wednesday, Aug. 2, the Water and Wastewater Commission considered recommending an amendment to the BCP's federal..."
Aug. 11, 2006 News Feature by Wells Dunbar
State Highway 130
The 174 square miles along and near the tollway corridor in Austin's extraterritorial jurisdiction have limited curb appeal for city
"...it would cost the city $570 million to provide water/wastewater, drainage, and roads...."
Aug. 4, 2006 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves
Anger at Water Plant Plan Boils Over
City planners and residents at odds over future use of Guerrero Park
"...alternative locations, including another city-owned site (the soon-to-be-decommissioned Govalle Wastewater Treatment Plant), as well as two privately owned Eastside..."
April 21, 2006 News Feature by Daniel Mottola
Point Austin: Beside the Point
Moriarty flings more poo at the city
"...Item 23, to approve $4.2 million for the Downtown Wastewater Tunnel project. Former Austin Clean Water Program director Bill..."
Feb. 3, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar
Polygamous 'Prophet' Update
Jeffs still at large, but apparently communicating with his flock
"...would allow the sect to build and operate a wastewater treatment plant on their so-called Yearning for Zion Ranch...."
Sept. 30, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Small Victories
The Travis Co. Lege delegation closed shop with a few achievements
"...over who should pay off an aging water and wastewater debt. Strama enlisted the help of a friend well..."
June 10, 2005 News Column by Amy Smith
Will the Water Flow at Northridge?!?
Travis County finally finds a way to bring water to tiny
Northridge Acres
"...A grant from the Texas Water Development Board for wastewater service failed to take hold in Northridge Acres and..."
Dec. 3, 2004 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves
Naked City
Travis Co. selects finalists for the hospital district board
"...Engineers and former member of the city's Water and Wastewater Commission; Lynn Hudson, a former director of managed care..."
July 23, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith
Naked City
Nickels and dimes add up to $1.8 million for a cash-strapped city budget
"...than $200 million in additional projects to keep the water-and-wastewater rate increases acceptable to the public.) Under the proposal,..."
June 25, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Helping 'Urban Colonias'
Give counties more power, Sam Biscoe tells a House committee
"...up more than $200 million to push water and wastewater services out to unserved areas annexed into the city..."
June 11, 2004 News Feature
Naked City
"...20, the Texas Commission of Environmental Quality approved a wastewater-discharge permit over objections from Neighbors for Neighbors, the community..."
Sept. 5, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Here a Box, There a Box, Everywhere a Big Box
One Lowe's, two Wal-Marts, and three sets of angry Southside citizens
"...this instance. Lowe's, for example, is requesting water and wastewater services from Austin. Environmentalists view that as a leverage-booster..."
Aug. 22, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith
Naked City
Terror on Restaurant Row
"...After several skirmishes over a wastewater pipeline gone wrong, city officials last week delivered a..."
March 21, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith
City Budget: Same Song, Second Verse
Just like last year, City Hall is grappling with a $70-million-plus projected budget gap.
"...are possibly significant costs at the city's Water and Wastewater Utility -- not part of the General Fund, but..."
Jan. 31, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
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"...we could help the residents resolve their water and wastewater needs. I believe that if not for the continued..."
Nov. 29, 2002 Column
Sewage Happens in G'Town
"...Georgetown sewage front, with the opening of a new wastewater plant and some resolution of the controversy surrounding the..."
Nov. 29, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith
No Dove of Peace Over Georgetown
Charges continue to fly over the defective Dove Springs Wastewater plant.
"...when it appeared the dispute over Georgetown's Dove Springs Wastewater Treatment Plant might have waned, more sewage oozes: A..."
Oct. 4, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Another Bite at the Dogs
"...using the dogs as "scapegoats" for its mismanagement of wastewater, says Scott Royder, director of the Austin-based Texas Public..."
Sept. 27, 2002 News Feature by Dave Mann
Buda Sewage Overflow
"...for storage year-round without a major amendment to your wastewater permit."..."
Sept. 27, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith
It's Still Leaking Sewage
"...report detailing the structural state of the Dove Springs Wastewater Treatment Plant -- and city officials claim it validates..."
Sept. 20, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Austin @ Large: No Picnic for PARD
Parks & Recreation downsizes, shedding functions that perhaps it never should have had.
"...-- they've been folded in with the Water and Wastewater Utility program that manages the city's conservation lands over..."
Sept. 20, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison
Man Bites Prairie Dogs!
"...years, Lubbock has operated one of the state's largest wastewater application fields, sprinkling waste from the city's sewage treatment..."
Aug. 30, 2002 News Feature by Dave Mann
Descent into Hell
The City Council kicked off its budget talks in earnest last week, with the least grim part of the FY2003 proposed budget -- public safety -- along with aviation, the Convention Center, and Solid Waste Services.
"...City Hall typically treats Austin Energy and Water and Wastewater (the utilities) separately. That leaves the airport, the Convention..."
Aug. 16, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Dove Springs Whitewash?
Georgetown mayor defends the sewage plant.
"...was a beautiful day out at Georgetown's Dove Springs Wastewater Treatment Plant, site of Georgetown Mayor MaryEllen Kersch's press..."
March 29, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Naked City
"...on three development agreements, and on issues relating to water/wastewater matters. At a special City Council meeting on Monday,..."
Feb. 8, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple
Naked City
The LCRA has been a welcoming refuge for former city officials.
"...his job as head of the city's Water and Wastewater Utility Dept. to guide the LCRA's excursion into water..."
