The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) continues its investigation of soil and groundwater contamination in Kingsland, caused by past dry cleaning operations at 2101 FM 1431 in Llano County.
At the February 10th meeting of the Llano County Commissioners Court, TCEQ was granted access to Kingsland right of ways to drill 7 more monitoring wells, hoping to determine the southern boundary of the contamination plume. The county approved the drilling of 12 wells in 2023, 2 of which detected levels of contamination above health quality. Six of the 7 new wells will be drilled outside the currently estimated southern boundary of the plume.
"The plume is getting bigger," said Precinct 3 Commissioner Brent Richards during the February 10th meeting. "(TCEQ) said that because of the existing ground water wells that people are using for irrigation, it's beginning to draw out the plume."
