The Gazette-Enterprise

The Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority, the Texas AgriLife Extension Service and the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board are looking for a little help.

They’ve formed a partnership to study pollution in the Alligator and Geronimo creeks and decide what to do about it.

The $800,000 three-year study begins Tuesday with an informational meeting that begins at 6 p.m. at the GBRA’s River Annex on Nolan Street, and invitations have gone out to many people who have been identified as stakeholders or potential partners in the study of the 70 square mile watershed that begins north of New Braunfels and skirts the airport area, Geronimo and the east side of Seguin on its way to the Guadalupe River.

A similar study in the Plum and Town creeks in Hays and Caldwell counties accomplished much more than identifying pollution in that watershed. It empowered members of the community with the information they needed to make positive change, and for the last two years, area residents have volunteered to remove nine tons of illegally dumped trash and household items from those watersheds.

GBRA has asked the public to support this new study that could lead to a cleanup of one of this county’s great natural resources, and has invited anyone interested to attend Tuesday’s meeting in Seguin or a similar one to be conducted two nights later in New Braunfels.

This is an example of state government working for its constituents. GBRA says public participation will be key to the study’s success.

Here’s a chance to help. Don’t pass it up.

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