Posts Tagged ‘water’
Canary in the Coal Mine Gas Field
Pablo LastraRichard Wilkinson spent his early years wildcatting all over Texas in search of oil. During a stint in the Army in the ’50s, he fired high-caliber warning shots at Russian airplanes wandering into North Pole airspace. H...
Same (Smelly) Song
Eastsiders say a local food processor is still stinking up their neighborhood.ERIC GRIFFEY
When Bill Cole saw a “haz-mat” team in front of his Riverside-area auto repair shop last month, it brought back some pretty bad memories.
Sludge Fund
Decades after it closed, an Eastside sewage treatment plant still isn’t cleaned up.JEFF PRINCE
Stagnant, luminescent green water trapped inside huge concrete tanks is like a slap in the face to Chris Waring.
Water Foul
An aquifer is at risk – along with property values, livestock, and dreams – after gas wells move in.Peter Gorman
Brian Beadle knew something was wrong when the registered Boer goats he raises on his small farm near Grandview began swelling up just after Christmas.
Official Secrets
Tarrant voters have a heaping plate of reasons to go to the polls May 10 — including some that officials wish citizens didn’t know.Betty Brink and Laurie Barker James
Elections with only local issues on the ballot – school board races, bond issues, choices for leadership of obscure bodies like water districts and community colleges – usually draw less voter interest in these part...
Eagle-Eye View
Tarrant’s newest lakeside park is already a monument.Jeff Prince
When the gates open to the public on Friday, Eagle Mountain Lake Park will represent many things beyond the obvious beauty of 400 pristine acres covered with wildflowers, cedars, oaks, mesquites, cactus, rocks, walking trails, ...
Haale
Listen UpInfluenced almost equally by mystic poets and American rock and psychedelic music, Haale’s full-length debut, No Ceiling, isn’t quite inner-directed “trance” music, but it is akin to that soporific (or, ...
Hidden Heritage
Views from a downtown park are beautiful — but its future is murky.Dan McGraw
When the Fort Worth Parks and Community Services Department closed Heritage Park six months ago, few downtown regulars noticed.
Deep Waters
Haltom City’s getting the floods, but Fort Worth’s getting the money.Dan McGraw
When Natasha Collins thinks about her precious little girl these days, she doesn’t dwell much on the horror the two went through on that last night, in the early hours of June 18 — the water rising to five feet in their...
A Clear-Cut to the Heart
Eastside leaders fight developers and city hall to save a wooded neighborhood.Betty Brink
“Save the trees so that the birds and animals will have a nice place to live.” “It is our job to protect the trees … they have been here a long time since my grandpa lived here.” “I like tree...