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Company Changes Plan to Build Oil Pipeline Over Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone After Pushback From
Company Changes Plan to Build Oil Pipeline Over Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone After Pushback From ResidentsPipeline company Enterprise Product Partners has scrapped plans to build a controversial crude oil pipeline over the Edwards Aquifer recharge zone in the Texas Hill Country, a company official confirmed Friday.
However, the Houston-based company still plans to complete the 30-inch-diameter pipeline via another route. The conduit connecting North Texas to the Eagle Ford Shale region south of San Antonio is scheduled to begin service in the first half of 2021.
The change comes after Hill Country landowners raised concerns about the line crossing the environmentally sensitive recharge zone. The Edwards Aquifer provides drinking water for roughly 2 million people in the San Antonio area.
"We actually were considering a number of options, which is pretty typical for a pipeline project like this," company spokesman Rick Rainey told the Current.
Read more: https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2019/10/04/company-changes-plan-to-build-oil-pipeline-over-edwards-aquifer-recharge-zone-after-pushback-from-residents
