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EAST BERNARD – Rice farmers are asking for immediate enforcement of a court order against an alleged polluter of Skull Creek, a tributary of the Colorado River, which provides irrigation water to grow rice.
Read moreCOLUMBUS — The Lower Colorado River Basin Coalition said it deplores a series of toxic spills on Skull Creek that have killed fish and endangered wildlife and humans, and it
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Colorado County EMS and Splashway Water Park & Campground recently announced a new partnership. In effort to make this possible, Splashway has donated an ambulance to the county to increase
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ALTAIR — The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has provided no timetables to begin remediation and cleanup of a long stretch of Skull Creek leading from Altair to the Colorado
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La Grange — The Colorado County Citizen picked up a Sweepstakes Award and four first-place awards in its division Friday at the South Texas Press Association Convention’s Better Newspaper Contest in La Grange.
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COLUMBUS — The John Everett Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution hosted first responders at their meeting April 8. Police Chief Skip Ed-man, Fire Chief Dusty Dittmar and
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AUSTIN — Just before 6 p.m. Friday, Judge Scott H. Jenkins of the 53rd State District Court of Travis County granted a request for, and issued, a temporary restraining order prohibiting Inland Environmental from further contaminating Skull Creek.
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SAN SABA — The Lower Colorado River Authority Board of Directors on Tuesday at their regular meeting in San Saba, adopted a resolution granting their general manager the authority to take whatever action is necessary to pursue enforcement actions concerning the recent contamination in Skull Creek.
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