John Hill Wertz, Special Investigative Report to The Golden Hammer Conroe, June 10 – It’s time to restore the holy water! It’s time to end the unholy water alliance between the San Jacinto River Authority (SJRA), Texas Water Development Board (TWDB), and GMA 14, the regional water regulator. They seek to control private property rights and […]
Image: Money-hungry San Jacinto River Authority General Manager Jace Houston and the SJRA Board of Directors are angry as fumaroles that the property rights reform-minded Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District Board of Directors with the help of a Texas Judicial District Court are threatening their monopolistic water sale plans. Conroe, May 23 – On May […]
Houston, May 2 – The Houston Court of Appeals for the Fourteenth Appellate District handed the San Jacinto River Authority (SJRA) another loss in SJRA’s seemingly endless squandering of attorney fees to avoid blame for its actions in failing “to provide flood control” resulting in the horrible flooding during the Harvey storm. The Court of […]
Image: Renowned hydrologist Robert Harden finally got to present facts and hydrological models after the San Jacinto River Authority and its Big Water allies sought to foment fear at the Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District’s Town Hall Meeting on Monday, April 22, 2019. The Woodlands, April 28 – The Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District (LSGCD) Board […]
Image: Quadvest President Simon Sequeira, most obviously the Bob Marley of Montgomery County’s fight for freedom from the San Jacinto River Authority’s monopolistic water prices as well as The Golden Hammer’s Power Top Ten #8 in 2018, has much reason to celebrate, as the Texas Supreme Court has agreed to hear the mandamus petition of […]
Image: Did the people who own this idyllic backyard install turf in order to avoid dealings with the San Jacinto River Authority, General Manager Jace Houston, and the Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District? Believe it or not, that’s Conroe ISD Superintendent latest lame excuse why taxpayers should spend $5 million to turf in place of […]
Conroe, March 13 – Prior to the Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District’s (LSGCD) Board of Directors meeting last night, the San Jacinto River Authority (SJRA), through a letter from its General Manager Jace Houston, and its close ally, the Woodlands Joint Powers Agency, tried to put the scare into the LSGCD to continue to […]
Conroe, March 1 – It’s a letter Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Attorney General Ken Paxton, Senator Brandon Creighton (R-Conroe, Senator Robert Nichols (R-Tyler), and State Representatives Steve Toth (R-Conroe), Will Metcalf (R-Conroe), and Cecil Bell (R-Magnolia) should all read immediately. It’s a letter for which San Jacinto River Authority (SJRA) Board of Directors member Kaaren […]
Image: On Friday, September 1, 2017, San Jacinto River Authority General Manager Jace Houston stood on the Lake Conroe Dam with other officials to try to justify why the Authority had flooded thousands of homes downstream during Tropical Storm Harvey without failing to give any warning to the homeowners. On Monday, February 25, 2019, 284th […]
Conroe, February 15 – On February 25, 2019 representatives from the San Jacinto River Authority (SJRA), Montgomery County, and the City of Conroe will hold a third and final public meeting to discuss the upper West Fork San Jacinto River Watershed Flood Protection Study and Flood Early Warning System Project. The meeting will be at […]