Comal.News reporting desk
Water, Utilities & Weather Desk
What the desk covers
Edwards Aquifer and Canyon Lake levels, drought stages, water and wastewater systems, flooding, burn bans, parks and trails, and rural land.
Beat: Water, Utilities, Environment & Weather. 80 published stories carry this byline.
- All Land & Water reporting
- Water and utilities
- Canyon Lake level & river flow (live data)
- Water restrictions (live data)
- Burn ban status (live data)
About this byline
A desk byline names a beat of the Comal.News newsroom, not a person. Stories under it follow the same editorial standards as every Comal.News story.
Comal.News practices AI-enhanced journalism. AI assists with reading, drafting, and verification, and every draft is checked against the original documents and the editorial rules in our editorial standards before it publishes. Every published claim links back to its source.
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- Primary records first. The original agenda, filing, contract, dataset, recording, or firsthand account, not someone else’s summary.
- Collected public records. Software checks records Comal County governments have already published (meeting agendas and packets, press releases, public notices, purchasing and bid pages, orders and resolutions, court dockets, and emergency alerts) and preserves each one unchanged, with the address and time it was collected.
- Meetings and votes. Outcomes are confirmed against minutes, video, vote records, contracts, or signed instruments.
- Evidence shown. Stories link the records they rely on, explain calculations, and say when the available evidence has limits.
Read more: the reporting process, source hierarchy, data collection, and the corrections policy.
Back to topLatest stories
- NBU identifies $107.5 million in water needs beyond its five-year plan ·
- NBU plans to double McKenzie wastewater treatment capacity ·
- Canyon Lake was 96.3% full as aquifer restrictions stayed at Stage 2 ·
- NBU’s $244 million capital plan draws $190 million from debt sources ·
- Guadalupe River State Park to close Nov. 20–24 ·
- Nov. 4 water readings: Canyon Lake 96.3% full, Edwards restrictions at Stage 2 ·
- Comal County seeks comments on draft water quality land selection process by Nov. 9 ·
- $3.64 million Loop 337 pump station project registered for accessibility review ·
- Canyon Lake 96.2% full; Comal County drought index at 454 ·
- Comal County included in flood assistance announcement ·
- Canyon Lake sits 1.76 feet below conservation pool in Nov. 1 reading ·
- Dry Comal Creek path enters state accessibility register with $2 million cost estimate ·
- Comal drought index falls 17 points, remains at 567 ·
- Comal County temporarily lifts burn ban through Sunday noon ·
- How to check a Comal County floodplain before building ·
- Comal County drought index averages 585, up 3 points in a day ·
- Canyon Lake is 96.1% full; Edwards readings track a different water source ·
- Canyon Lake storage, springflow and river gauges: Comal County’s latest readings ·
- Schertz imposes Stage 3 water restrictions after transmission line break ·
- Canyon Lake is 96.5% full, while aquifer pumping remains under Stage 3 ·
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