Over a week of debates about hydrological science and water well interference began last Tuesday in Bastrop. After nearly a year of preparation since December’s preliminary hearing, all the parties formally protesting the Lower Colorado River Authority’s (LCRA) permit to drill wells in Bastrop County presented their opening cases and began to question witnesses last week. The LCRA bought the Griffith League Boy Scout Ranch in northeast Bastrop County in 2015. In February of 2018, the LCRA applied to the Lost Pines Groundwater Conservation District (LPGCD), the entity responsible for managing the groundwater below Lee and Bastrop counties, for a permit to ...