While a presentation from city staff indicated the city’s current water resources could handle a population up to about 35,000 to 40,000, a Boerne water committee is looking to alternative 100-year solutions for the city. However, some of these solutions may be tied to some controversial legislative efforts out of a neighboring metropolitan city.
The water committee heard from a director with the Edwards Aquifer Authority – the regulating agency that oversees the management and protection of the Edwards Aquifer that was formed by legislation in 1993.
The agency encompasses several counties wholly and partially, including Uvalde, Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe, Atascosa, Hays and Caldwell counites. Currently, water from the aquifer can only be contracted with counties within its service boundaries.
