Texas State University has received the green light to purchase a piece of land in San Marcos that spans approximately 128 acres within the Sink Creek watershed, according to a news release.

The Texas State University System Board of Regents approved the $4.5 million purchase in a meeting last month.

“The university’s acquisition of this property protects the quantity and quality of our water and provides unique research opportunities for our students,” said Robert Mace, director of the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment.

Sink Creek flows downstream to the San Marcos Springs that form Spring Lake, and the headwaters of the San Marcos River on the Texas State campus.

Upstream, the Sink Creek property collects drainage from a city-owned greenspace over the Edwards Aquifer Recha

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