But a pipeline built only in Texas is regulated by the Texas Railroad Commission, which doesn’t force companies to evaluate possible environmental harm. ", Water from a well appears cloudy in this image from April 2020. Fore said his company has tried to be flexible with property owners in the pipeline’s path. The 42-inch buried natural gas pipeline will be 430 miles starting north of Fort Stockton and stretching across much of Texas’ Hill Country to its destinations near Houston. Conservative-leaning city governments and environmentalists are united in their opposition of the proposed route of pipeline giant Kinder Morgan’s 430-mile (690-kilometer), $2 billion natural gas expressway. As if the inconvenience weren't enough, both Teri and her husband are doctors working during the COVID-19 pandemic. See additional information on the Hays County website. Braun & Gresham is gathering information on this project and will provide updates here when available. On its 430-mile Gulfward journey, the pipeline would gash the Texas Hill Country, a quickly growing and environmentally sensitive region that’s been relatively untouched by oil and gas development. American Health Care is Broken, Especially in Texas. The line will run west and south of Lockhart. Kinder already has one pipeline on my property in Schleicher county along with two other pipelines. Ron Fieseler, the general manager of the Blanco-Pedernales Water Conservation District, says the water chemistry all came back normal, and although the total suspended solids test indicated the presence of sediment, he expects that to settle over time.
Nonetheless, after the accident, Albright and her husband didn't have running water for nearly two weeks. Donate to the Texas Hill Country Legal Defense Fund here: http://SaveTheHillCountry.orgWimberley Valley Watershed Association & TESPA joined forces in a legal action to oppose Kinder Morgan and its Permian Highway Pipeline.Blanco County, TX. Remembering a Jewish Upbringing in Meyerland, Texas, How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment, A New Short-Story Collection Imagines a Texas Town’s Secession, Announcing the 2020 Insider Prize Winners, ‘A Saint From Texas’ Gets the Lone Star State Right, Young Texans Keep Spelling Bees Going From Home, What the Black Lives Matter Protests Mean for East Texas, Lessons on the Long Game from Goose Island’s Whooping Cranes, In a Pandemic, Poor Defendants Could Pay With Their Lives, Eye on Texas: The Broken Wheel Ranch Project, Author Saeed Jones on Empathy, the Power of Memoir, and Growing up Gay in North Texas, Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes, nowhere else but the cedar breaks of the Texas Hill Country and surrounding areas. I own property at the intersection of Gonzales County Road 441 and Gonzales County Road 442. © 2020 Braun & Gresham, PLLC. Maps for the Permian Highway Pipeline Project On the right (below on mobile) is the overview map of the entire Texas portion of the Permian Highway Pipeline Project. © 2020 The Texas Observer.
", Well water in Blanco County appears cloudy with setiment in a jug in this image from April 2020. After the Deaths of Two Soldiers at Fort Hood, the Navajo Nation Wants Answers. ", Cloudy well water appears in glass jars in this image from April 2020. Once at the site, zoom in to Hays county, turn on “pipelines” in the interactive map’s legend. P.O. I want to make sure all my rights as a landowner are covered. Lab test are being analyzed to determine if any chemicals beside the bentonite drilling mud were released into the aquifer and the Blanco River. He can be reached on Twitter or at [email protected], If Not Now, When?
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Discharging pollutants into waters of the United States without a permit. And that led to several of the environmental groups getting involved," said Albright. Here’s What It’s Like For Them.
The pipeline, known as the Permian Highway Pipeline, will carry natural gas from a station near the Texas/New Mexico border to Houston. "One of my neighbors contacted me and said her water turned muddy, so we knew it wasn't just my well. (The Edwards Aquifer provides drinking water to 80 percent of San Antonio.) Some landowners, like Johnson, have hired attorneys to discuss their legal options. Both major lines will feed smaller lines that stretch across Southeast and South Texas.
They had massive lights on and stayed on all night long, and lots of noise and drilling sounds," said Albright. In Hays County last week, county commissioners called a public meeting to gather community input; hundreds of people packed the Wimberley Community Center to ask questions and voice their concerns. Donations to the Texas Hill Country Legal Defense Fund can be made online by clicking the “Donate” button or by check to Wimberley Valley Watershed Association, PO Box 2534, Wimberley, Tx 78676 (Please mark Tx Hill Country Defense Fund on the memo line).
Our family has had pipelines across their property for many years, and no adverse effects. BLANCO COUNTY, Texas -- Development of the 430-mile Permian Highway Pipeline continues to be controversial in the Texas Hill Country.
Blanco County, TX -- Kinder Morgan CEO Steve Kean announced yesterday that the company plans to reroute the controversial Permian Highway fracked gas pipeline to go around the Blanco River, in response to public outrage over a spill during pipeline construction, the impacts of which Kinder Morgan has repeatedly downplayed, that left Blanco County residents without clean drinking … With your financial support we will have the resources to fight in court for the landowners and impacted communities who are on the front lines.Thank you in advance for your contribution to this fight! I do not approve of this plan. "Washing hands with bottled water is possible, but itâs not ideal.â. “If there was some sort of a spill and it got down into the aquifer, how could that ever be cleaned up?” asked environmental advocate Louie Bond, who lives between Kyle and Wimberley.
Help us hold Kinder Morgan accountable for polluting our drinking water. Contaminated water comes out of a Blanco County, Texas, well in this image from April 2020. Click here for the county map The $2 billion project will create a 42-inch pipeline that travels 430 miles across the state, including through the heart of the Texas Hill Country.