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12 Million
Gallons Per Day Las Moras Discharges
202,739
Gallons of Water used for Municipal Water Use Per Day
136,610
Gallons of Water used for Agriculture & Industrial Use Per Day
What does the community actually think?
My family has been farming and pumping out of the Edwards Aquifer since XXXX and we have not had any issues. I think the main reason is we made sure we didn’t have brush or other issues sucking up the groundwater and filling out my deer lease areas.
Alice Smith
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Pumping impact Las Moras Springs?
No, Las Moras Springs is an intermittent spring that ebbs and flows naturally. Pumping during droughts does not marginally impact the spring as documented on our data page.
What is the #1 use of ground water?
The top use of water is actually the brush and tree forestation in Kinney County. This region of Texas is actually grasslands which takes 60% less water to maintain than the bush and tree cover that currently has taken over Kinney County since the changes of land use.
What is an Intermittent Spring?
Is a cold water spring from which the flow of water either varies or starts and stops entirely, over a fairly regular time-scale based on seasons and rainfall.
How much water is pumped out of the Aquifer vs. pumped to the spring
Currently there are permits to pump out 220 acre-feet of water for industrial & agriculture use
Currently the Las Moras Springs flows over 4.3 Billion gallons of water per year
Are Private Springs protected under state law?
No, currently private springs are not protected under state law.
WHAT DOES THE DATA SAY?
Since the recorded data began in 1934 our aquifer water use has tracked the aquifer equally with the amount of recharge every year.
Since 1954 when we began tracking usage of the water out of the aquifer the largest use for the water coming out of our aquifers has been the springs with a massive amount going to the Las Moras Intermittent Spring right here in Bracketville.
Since 2000 The spring has ebbed and flowed at a continual and regular rate discharging between 12 million and 14 million gallons per day consistantly regardless of the drought conditions.
