The Groundwater Management Area 13 Planning Committee is scheduled to consider aquifer relevance and proposed desired future conditions Nov. 13.
Its posted notice places several possible decisions in sequence: which aquifers count for joint planning, whether to use a groundwater model run as the foundation for future conditions, and whether to declare conditions for three named aquifers. Readers can inspect the proposed actions through the county's November posting.
Guadalupe County Groundwater Conservation District is one of eight member districts listed on the notice. Guadalupe County's groundwater district participates in the regional planning framework that the proposed aquifer decisions could shape. The committee's later action will establish how any decision applies within the county.
Which aquifers are on the table
The committee may consider a resolution declaring the Edwards (Balcones Fault Zone), Gulf Coast, Trinity and Yegua-Jackson aquifers non-relevant to joint planning in GMA 13. Readers following a particular water source should keep the aquifer name attached to the proposed relevance finding: the notice puts several aquifers and different types of action before the same committee.
A separate item asks the committee to decide the relevance of the Carrizo-Wilcox, Queen City and Sparta aquifers for Bexar and Webb counties, counties without groundwater conservation districts, and counties within GMA 13. Those geographic categories will matter when reading any eventual resolution and its effect on Guadalupe County's district.