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Residents raise concerns about commercial pumping near Oglesby and McGregor; project team to check post‑2020 data
Summary
Attendees said commercial and municipal pumping—citing contracts to supply SpaceX—may be driving local drawdown; presenters said the model currently uses data through 2020 and promised to verify reported post‑2020 pumping records and incorporate them if available.
During public Q&A, attendees raised localized concerns that high commercial or municipal pumping near Oglesby and McGregor (including water contracted to SpaceX) may be contributing to groundwater drawdown on Coryell County's eastern boundary.
One participant said, "the city of McGregor is still is allowing SpaceX to pump out a 175,000,000 gallons of water a year," asking the project team to verify whether recent pumping shows up in model inputs. Project staff responded that the groundwater model baseline runs through 2020 and that they will check reported pumping records; they invited stakeholders to provide recent pumping and well data to improve accuracy.
Presenters noted that the model's heat maps indicate some drawdown influence from neighboring counties and that local data (drilling logs, municipal pumping reports) would help distinguish whether recent commercial contracts materially change the projected drawdown in Coryell County. No formal regulatory action or mitigation plan was adopted at the meeting; the team requested data and said it will return with updated analyses if the data warrant.
