San Antonio gets its drinking water from the Edwards Aquifer, it’s a karst or limestone system.

A Karst or limestone system is an area where the rock is dissolved by water and fractures keep getting larger and larger to put water into the aquifer.

It’s an underground system that makes up our Helotes Creek watershed as well as the Edwards and Trinity aquifers.

Guajolote Ranch is the proposed development that would create approximately 3,000 homes on 1,100 acres, just north of Grey Forest in northwest Bexar County.

The development, which would be built by Lennar Corporation, requires a wastewater treatment plant. The plant would treat and process sewage before dumping it into the Helotes Creek watershed, which feeds into the Edwards and Trinity aquifers.

Both are sources of drinking wat

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