Private wells have started drying up — some for the first time, and ranchers are struggling to tend to their crops and animals.
Credit:Kathleen Tobin Krueger stood on a low cliff last week, looking down on her family’s ranchland.
Krueger worries about the wildlife. Where are the deer and the birds getting water? She worries about their cattle. Fresh grass and clean water are getting more difficult for them to find.Kathleen Tobin Krueger drives with her brother Patrick Tobin through the dry riverbed of the Medina River near Bandera.Across Central Texas, families that depend on private wells are finding they’ve dried up — some for the first time.
“[The Trinity Aquifer is] just more complicated, much more complicated, and there’s no authority for it like the Edwards Aquifer Authority that’s come through and really figured it out,” said Jack Oliver, a local geologist, cave researcher and a board member ofKrueger and her brother Patrick Tobin have never been able to drive their ranch all-terrain vehicleSign up for The Daily Reach.Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again.
Usually, the deer, birds and fish have plenty of clean flowing water to drink and swim in the Medina River, Krueger said. She’s worried particularly for the endangered bird species that pass through their ranch annually. “She probably thinks we have some food on us,” Tobin said as he passed her. The Tobins keep about 30 cattle and 25 calves on the ranch, Tobin said. Keeping them fed and watered has been an ordeal this summer, he said.
Folks across the South have been selling off their cattle because they’ve become too expensive to maintain, he said. That, in turn, has oversaturated the market.It’s not just farmers and ranchers struggling to draw water from their wells.taken to social mediaOliver said Hill Country residents have been reaching out to him in recent weeks asking how they can get water trucked out to their rural homes because their wells have run dry.
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