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BY AMIRA VAN LEEUWEN
NBU looks to remove 3 properties from service area
New Braunfels Utilities is looking to modify its service area. The New Braunfels Utilities board of trustees voted April 30 to submit an application to the state’s Public Utility Commission to absolve its legal responsibility to provide water and wastewater services for three undeveloped properties. The action, which will ultimately be reviewed and decided on by the state’s PUC, does not a ect current customers, and water service rates remain unchanged, according to a news release. What you need to know Two of the properties are located west of FM 306 and will be located within Comal County’s Munici- pal Utility District, or MUD, No. 5. Those properties would be served by the MUD, which is a 621-acre district north of New Braunfels. MUDs are special-purpose districts created by the state, used by developers to fund the upfront costs of building new communities in unincorporated
areas—land outside city limits that isn’t governed by a municipal government, according to the Texas Municipal League. The third property is a 97.68-acre tract northeast of Cambridge Drive near the River Chase area. The cause NBU Chief Executive O cer Ryan Kelso said most of the area on the north side of town is over the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone, which is one of the reasons the board is behind the decision. Extending water service to undeveloped areas also requires investment in new pipelines, storage and treatment capacity. “We’re focusing on areas where we can serve customers reliably and e ciently, while avoiding unexpected infrastructure expansions that could place additional costs on the people we already serve,” Kelso said in the release.
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