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Council approves settlement on groundwater export and continues planned well construction to meet max‑day needs
Summary
The council approved a settlement with Upl (upland exporter) and the Groundwater Conservation District that caps export at 50,000 acre‑feet with a staged ramp and creates an export fee to fund mitigation; separately staff described planned construction of three wells (wells 10–12) intended to meet max‑day capacity and redundancy.
The College Station City Council unanimously approved a settlement on June 26 related to litigation over groundwater export and heard staff describe continued construction of three new municipal wells intended to protect the city’s maximum‑day water supply capacity.
City Attorney Adam Falco and staff described the settlement reached among the district, the city and the export project (notice of the case and the settlement appeared on the council agenda as Court cause number 24002626‑CD‑472). Under the terms described to council, the export project’s authorized volume was capped at 50,000 acre‑feet, and the settlement establishes a staged pumping ramp: an initial limit of 23,000 acre‑feet until February 2034, then an increase to 38,000…
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