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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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COLUMBUS — Colorado County Judge Ty Prause last week characterized the investigation by three state agencies in to multiple incidents of contamination at Skull Creek over the last 60 days as “bureaucratic chaos,” and said officials from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality “either could not or would not” tell him when testing on water samples taken from the creek in February would be completed.
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AUSTIN--State Sen. Lois Kolkhorst (R-Bren-ham) believes it is time for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to be reviewed by the Texas Sunset Commission in the wake of the agency’s response to contamination in Skull Creek over the last two months.
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AUSTIN — The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has referred a case relating to two separate contamination incidents at Skull Creek to the Texas Attorney General’s Office for further action.
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What does your religion say about environmental stewardship? What does your church call you to do when it comes to political activism in regard to environmental calamity? These are two
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COLUMBUS — In the wake of a third contamination incident at Skull Creek occurring sometime over the weekend, Colorado County Commissioners Monday morning voted unanimously to authorize the county judge to exercise enforcement power available to the county under Chapter 7 of the Texas Water Code following an executive session lasting just under an hour.
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A possible source for black material or sludge found in Skull Creek downstream of Inland Recycling, approximately a half mile is the anaerobic process that is found in the bottom
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