INDEPENDENT TEXAN, IT'S REDUNDANT!

Update: October 24, 2025 : We are updating this article we posted in Feb. 2023, as we opposed from the get-go (and still do) Austin's Aquifer Storage proposal in Bastrop County. A bill to stop the project filed by Rep. Stan Gerdes lost by one vote in the 2025 legislative session. The good news is that Austin has been forced to the table (likely by the near passage of the bill and continued community opposition) with stakeholders in a Memorandum of Understanding, aka "Colla