About Canyon Regional
Water
Authority...
Canyon Regional Water Authority is a subdivision of the
State
of Texas created by theTexas Legislature in 1989. CRWA is created as a
Special District not having taxing authority and raises funds by
preforming
services. CRWA is made up of Member
Entities of retail water suppliers in the East San Antonio
Region.
It works as a partnership of water supply corporations, cities and
districts
responsible for acquiring, treating, and transporting potable water. It
is mandated with the duty to encourage water conservation, to reduce
the
reliance on a future uncertain supply of groundwater, and to protect,
preserve
and restore the purity of water. Most of the Members are pumpers from
the
Edwards Aquifer which are Regulated by the
Edwards
Aquifer Authority.
CRWA is governed by a Board
of Trustees, with two
individuals representing each member entity
on the Board. A Board
of Managers
comprised of the senior managers of each member
entity provides technical assistance and guidance to the Board of
Trustees.
Day -to-day operations are under the direction of a manager, who is
responsible
for the efficient operation of the Authority's facilities.
CRWA operates the Lake Dunlap Water Treatment Plant at
Lake
Dunlap just southwest of New Braunfels, Texas on the Guadalupe River
and
the Hays / Caldwell Water Treatment Plant on the San Marcos River east
of San Marcos. The Dunlap Plant is rated at 16.4 million gallons
per
day and the Hays / Caldwell at 6 million gallons per day capacity.
CRWA is a major purchaser of Raw Water from the Guadalupe Blanco River Authority.
GBRA sells CRWA stored raw water from Canyon Lake and CRWA diverts this
water from Lake Dunalp to the Lake Dunlap WTP. In addition GBRA
diverts water from Lake Dunlap and via pipeline delivers water to the
Hays/Caldwell WTP.
CRWA also through interlocal
agreements purchases water from
Springs Hill WSC and supplies to East Central, Green Valley and the
City
of La Vernia Carrizo groundwater pumped in Guadalupe county.
CRWA is working with its Member Entities on
aquiring future
water rights from groundwater and surface water in the Cibolo,
Guadalupe,
San Antonio and San Marcos River basins. An ongoing project is to
aquire agriculture rights that have been dormant. CRWA is also
working
in conjuction with it's Member Entities on a well field in the Carrizo
/ Wilcox Aquifer in Gonzales and Guadalupe counties.