Contact TCEQ's office of Public Interest Counsel, pep@tceq.texas.gov, 512.239.3300, for assistance on filing a protest, or ac@tceq.texas.gov for general assistance and information about Aqua Texas' rate filing. You can answer a survey on TCEQ's services at this link: http://www.tceq.texas.gov/customersurvey
Reprinted from ridge-runner.org
Residents throughout the Woodcreek area will again be battling what many local residents call the “Bad Boy of the Wimberley Valley,” Aqua Texas. As one resident put it, “Here they come again. Aqua Texas has been putting the screws to the rate payers for years. It’s greed. Plain and simple. Ratepayers be damned.”
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A public hearing is scheduled Friday May 18, 4 p.m., at Woodcreek City Hall, 41 Champions Circle. The hearing will focus on a proposed increase in water rates in the Aqua Texas Southwest Region.
Word of a potential rate increase initially came in the form of a letter to all Woodcreek area residents at the end of last year. The City of Woodcreek took an initial step of denying the proposed rate increase, something that a municipality has the right to do.
Despite protests from residents in either area (Woodcreek North or The City of Woodcreek), there is no assurance that their protests will be fruitful. Historically, the record of private water company requests for rate increases is highly in favor to the water company and against the rate payers.
http://hayscountyroundup.blogspot.com/2011/04/woodcreek-survey-confirms-attitudes.html
Note: This, from a blog from the Kerr County Highlands Ranch POA (posted March 28, 2012) – "The Aqua Texas rate hikes that went into effect Feb. 21 will soon be showing up on our bills. For most of us, the increase exceeds 60 percent, with no improvement in water quality and no improvement in service . . . The regulations allows for 90 days from the effective date of the rate increase to get 1,000 protest letters to TCEQ to get a hearing. They have received over 500 protest letters so far . . . Letters of protest can be mailed to: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Water Supply Division, Utilities & Districts Section, MC 153, PO Box 13087, Austin TX 78711-3087."
6 comments:
In this Commissioners Court election, Aqua Texas in on the ballot:
A vote for Will Conley is a vote for closed door meetings between he and Aqua Texas where they decided to raise your rates!
A vote for Will Conley is a vote for Aqua Texas, Winton Porterfield and monied outsiders running the Wimberley Valley's future into the ground and drying up our creeks, streams and groundwater resources.
Let's get Aqua Texas OUT of Precinct 3. Get rid of of Mr. Backroom Deals. Get rid of Will Conley by voting for Sam Brannon in the Republican Primary. Early voting starts Thursday in Wimberley.
People who might usually vote in the Democratic Primary can vote in this primary, in fact they should, since it is the ONLY way you have a say in your own local government this year. As a Hays County Republican, I am asking your help in this primary by asking that traditionally Democratic citizens help us Republicans get rid of Will Conley.
Woodcreek and Wimberley cannot take much more of his brand of "representation."
I have always wondered what those private meetings between Conley, Aqua's GM and various "stakeholders" ever accomplished. Nothing much apparently except for a lot of schmoozing. Does't Aqua still hold the title as Number One Water Waster in the county?
@Who you kidding.
Don't be so sure. The rate hike might just be the diversion. Likely more.
Lots of big talk here on "the Roundup" about Conley, Porterfield, Aqua Texas, all being in cahoots; what are you going to do about it? They ALL need to go away! That can't happen if you don't go to the polls to vote Conley out!! A vote for Conley is most definitely a vote for Winton Porterfield and his bosses from Midland-Odessa. In it for the profits only not to benefit our community. Porterfield and Conley are boyhood friends; Conley has been "groomed" for years in the good ole boy methods of government. Money for that grooming has come from the deep pockets of big oilmen from west Texas. He has run amuck with our money; too many back room deals. AquaTexas is supposedly working to reduce water waste in Woodcreek North by replacing its pipes with oversight of its work by Hays County. Go check it out. See what has been done to the roads in the area; the road repairs after the pipe replacement are a debacle. Is Will Conley going to hold AT accountable; probably not! More back room conferences! Get off your butts and vote this man OUT! There has to be someone better to work for the people of Precinct 3!
I'm still waiting on the Mayor of Woodcreek to tell us about all of his meetings with Conley and Aqua Texas. The guy seems to be proud of the fact that he participated in the now infamous Wimberley Water Talks. This is great. Woodcreek has got a Mayor who is proud of being duped into being an apologist for Aqua and Conley.
Clips from films about water.
http://waterfortheages.org/water-films/
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