The Bastrop Advertiser deserves praise for reporting on LCRA?s permit application for 8.15 billion gallons of groundwater per year from the Simsboro Aquifer. Regardless of the outcome of LCRA?s application, the issues go far beyond what will be addressed by the State Office of Administrative Hearings, and all Texans have a stake in the outcome.These issues need to be addressed, and failure to do so allows readers to assume that the protestants are standing in the way of progress

Source: Commentary: LCRA doesn’t need to be in groundwater business