Dallas Water Utilities
A new report from the Texas Tribune shows that several Texas water systems are contaminated with PFAS levels above newly released limits for the “forever chemicals.” The report named several North Texas water facilities with levels of PFAS that exceed limits deemed “safe” for consumption, including those serving affluent suburbs. Sandwiched between Ridgeview Ranch Golf…
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The Dallas City Council on Wednesday approved a comprehensive urban agriculture plan with the aim of increasing the acreage of neighborhood growing sites and providing access to healthy, local food. Objectives outlined in the Comprehensive Urban Agriculture Plan could serve equity priority areas with high minority populations by increasing the acreage of local growing sites…
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In areas long served by wells and septic tanks, the promise of access to city utilities has been just out of reach. However, that could change — and fast — as the City of Dallas moves aggressively to bring water and sewer service to these areas. In a Wednesday briefing, Dallas Water Utilities Director Terry…
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Back at the turn of the millennium, the City of Dallas adopted our time-of-day watering restrictions in an effort to curb the incredible amount of water that irrigates Dallas lawns and landscapes. Since 2001, through education and smart watering restrictions, Dallas has conserved 398 billion gallons of water, cutting gallons per capita per day consumption…
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The latest issue of Governing magazine has a story that all Texans should read, and then read again. The story’s title is self-explanatory — “Drought-Plagued Regions Struggle to Conserve Water and Make Money” — an issue with which much of North and West Texas are intimately familiar.
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