Conroe, August 1 – Simon Sequeira, President of Quadvest Water and Sewer Utility, set the record about water straight and accused the San Jacinto River Authority (SJRA) of price-gouging. SJRA advocates water purchases from SJRA’s surface water inventory and is pushing to regulate groundwater out of the competitive water market. Sequeira is the Eighth Most […]
Image: Source: Chido Onumah. Montgomery County, July 8 – What is the water problem in Montgomery County? Why are our water bills so high? Why is there so much litigation involving water and government entities involved in water? How does subsidence relate to these issues? The Golden Hammer, Montgomery County’s leading daily newspaper finished a […]
Image: The wild chicken, free of man’s forced regulation and breeding, is a beautiful creature. (Yes, it’s a male but it’s a male chicken.) Conroe and Montgomery County, July 6 – Subsidence is real. There’s a fair amount of agreement that the data showing subsidence is accurate, particularly for Harris and Galveston counties and for […]
Image: This patriotic chicken has nothing whatsoever to do with this article, except that several readers of The Golden Hammer have commented that they’ve enjoyed the chickens shown during this four-part series on subsidence. Part 1 of the series did, however, begin with references to the story of “Chicken Little,” “Kylling Kluck,” or “Henny Penny,” all […]
Conroe, July 2 – Let’s put the chickens on the table. The San Jacinto River Authority (SJRA) obviously wants to sell its surface water and has worked very hard to reduce production of groundwater from Montgomery County aquifers through regulation. That regulation came at the instance of the Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District (LSGCD), the […]
Eric Yollick, The Golden Hammer First-class Reggae star Jimmy Cliff’s song, “World Turned Upside Down,” seems to describe the perils Montgomery County citizens now face with respect to the enormous prices everyone is paying for water and the odd behavior of the Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District (LSGCD) and its sister agency, the San Jacinto River […]
Image: In the most pleasant and kindhearted tone, San Jacinto River Authority General Manager Ron Kelling unleashed the news that Woodlands water rates, which are already massive, will shoot almost 5% higher beginning Fiscal Year 2020. The Woodlands and Conroe, June 28 – The San Jacinto River Authority (SJRA) intends to increase water rates in […]
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 […]