Fears about a crude oil pipeline cutting through the west end of Bandera County and across the environmentally sensitive Edwards Aquifer and its recharge zone have evaporated now that the Houston pipeline company that proposed the project has agreed to move it off the aquifer.
Enterprise Products Partners L.P. of Houston issued a press release through its wholly owned affiliate M2E4 LLC last week saying that it had long-term agreements allowing it to expand its crude oil pipeline system from Midland to its Eagle Ford distribution system in South Texas but that the new line would avoid the Edwards Aquifer along ...