Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Comal County residents tell commissioners 2022 water-availability report underestimates drought risk; seek stronger review
Summary
Two Comal County residents presented detailed critiques of the Texas Water Company's 2022 Water Availability Report at the Jan. 23 commissioners court meeting, urging the court to require a presentation and to strengthen county requirements for water-availability reporting ahead of the 2025 report.
Comal County residents Jonathan Gulick and John Haidor told the Comal County Commissioners Court on Jan. 23, 2025, that the Texas Water Company's 2022 Water Availability Report (WAR) overstates available supply and fails to account adequately for drought conditions, and they urged the court to require greater scrutiny and methodological changes before the company submits its next report.
Gulick, identifying himself as a Comal County resident, said he read the 2022 WAR and its five appendices and concluded the document contained "a number of significant issues." He told the court that, based on county drought-stage records, Texas Water Company customers in Comal County were under stage 1 to stage 4 drought restrictions for 90.2% of the three-year span from Jan. 1, 2022, to Dec. 31, 2024 (989 days), and he said the 2022 WAR did not describe how drought contingency or emergency measures could force increasingly…
Already have an account? Log in
Subscribe to keep reading
Unlock the rest of this article — and every article on Citizen Portal.
- Unlimited articles
- AI-powered breakdowns of topics, speakers, decisions, and budgets
- Instant alerts when your location has a new meeting
- Follow topics and more locations
- 1,000 AI Insights / month, plus AI Chat
