By Anton Riecher
Action by the Texas Legislature will be required to permit drilling to create the massive aquifer storage and recovery project proposed by the newly organized Medina County Regional Water Alliance.
In a presentation during the Oct. 8 meeting of the alliance, Russell Persyn of RESPEC Co. LLC outlined considerations for the ASR project designed to store fresh water in the Trinity aquifer when available to later be recovered during periods of drought.
“ASR is considered an injection well,” Persyn said. “It is considered disposal even though we are putting fresh water down into the ground.”
To reach the Trinity aquifer, injection wells would have to be drilled through the much utilized Edwards aquifer, he said. Texas water code regulations do not permit such disposal unless specific permission is granted by the state legislature.
Persyn presented a…
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