
Results 1 - 20 of 57 in Granite Shoals, TX
Winter winds blast Burnet County
A wintery blast of Christmas Eve winds in excess of 25 miles per hour brought down the traffic light and signs at the intersection of RR 1431 and Phillips Ranch Road in Granite Shoals. Comment?
Granite Shoals Council congratulates Chamness
Granite Shoals City Councilman Calvin Chamness received the congratulations of his fellow council members Tuesday night on his election to the board of the Burnet Central Appraisal District. Comment?
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Cheaper Than Rent Mobile Homes: Kingsland, Granite Shoals & Cottonwood. Taking credit applications for owner financing. Comment?
Granite Shoals joins regional water study
The City of Granite Shoals on Tuesday night voted to participate in the Burnet-Llano County Regional Water Facility Planning Study. Comment?
Santa's Helpers need assistance
... Walmart in Marble Falls; restaurants and convenience stores throughout the county, including Spicewood and Granite Shoals. Monetary Donations can be made to a oeBurnet County Santaa s Helpersa in care of at First State of Burnet, P.O. Box 10, ... Comment?
Poaching charged in HSB deer kill
A 42-year-old Granite Shoals man was arrested by warrant Monday night for allegations of deer poaching in Horseshoe Bay on Nov. Comment?
... said it was backing off mandatory restrictions and would ask residents to comply with voluntary restrictions. Granite Shoals said it would do likewise. "We haven't really formulated a recommendation yet, but when it gets closer to the meeting, staff ... Comment?
No Wastewater in the Lake, Please
With Lake Austin and Tom Miller Dam as a backdrop, a group of local elected officials and business leaders gathered last Friday morning to voice their opposition to a petition by the cities of Leander and Granite Shoals to lift the ban on discharging treated wastewater into the Highland Lakes. Comment?
State environmental agency rejects request to repeal discharge ban
... down to water quality versus water quantity. In a petition filed in late September, the cities of Leander and Granite Shoals asked for the ban to be repealed. The cities argued that adding the effluent into the Colorado River basin, rather than ... Comment?
TCEQ Makes Decision About Wastewater
... be dumped into the Highland Lakes. The TCEQ voted unanimously to deny a petition from the City of Leander and Granite Shoals that would have lifted a 23-year-old ban. Commissioners said current technology is not advanced enough to safely discharge ... Comment?
Proposed effluent discharge draws fire
... change - and that notion that does not sit well with many Lake Travis area community leaders. Leander and Granite Shoals have petitioned the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to lift the ban, which would allow those entities to ... Comment?
Texas mulls plan to dump treated sewage into lakes
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... the Highland Lakes, which provide drinking water to more than a million people. The cities of Leander and Granite Shoals asked the state to lift the ban in part because it's cheaper to dump the waste in the lakes rather than use it for irrigation or ... Comment?
Tax revenue: Area cities better off
... a list. Highland Lakes officials are checking it twice. Sales tax revenues were up for Burnet, Bertram and Granite Shoals in October compared with the same month a year ago. Marble Fallsa revenue was down, but doing better than many places in Texas. ... Comment?
Christmas Outreach barbecue heads Granite Shoals civic work Saturday
The Granite Shoals City Council Tuesday night heard plans for a day of civic activities with a centerpiece a barbecue fundraiser sponsored by the Granite Shoals Police Officers Association. Comment?
Taser video, Austin settlement went into county's decision to settle
... suspicion of driving 60 mph in a 45-mph construction zone. Winkfein, a 4-foot-11-inch great-grandmother from Granite Shoals who is now 73, told him that she wouldn't sign the citation and then cursed at the deputy constable. That led to a ... Comment?
... "causing a vibration 100 feet from the equipment." Council also stands ready to formally oppose Leander and Granite Shoals' proposal to discharge wastewater effluent into local lakes (Item 39) and to direct the city manager to implement the Animal ... Comment?
Marble Falls, Granite Shoals voters nix ESDs; Briggs/Oakalla roundly approve theirs
Marble Falls and Granite Shoals voters narrowly defeated proposed Emergency Service Districts Tuesday night, unofficial returns showed. Comment?
causal observer on Councilmembers Poo Poo Upstream Effluent Plan
Councilmember Chris Riley and Mayor Lee Leffingwell are crapping all over a plan by the Cities of Leander and Granite Shoals to discharge treated sewage, or effluent , into the Highland Lakes, including Lake Travis and Lake Austin. Comment?
Effluent plan meets resistance downstream
... County and the Lower Colorado River Authority in formally opposing a petition by the cities of Leander and Granite Shoals that asks the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to end restrictions on discharging effluent into the Highland Lakes, ... Comment?
Leander and Granite Shoals have issued a petition to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to lift current wastewater dumping ban. Comment?