Protections for the toothless blindcat threaten access to critical Edwards Aquifer wells

U.S. Rep. Chip Roy and leaders from the San Antonio Water System are pushing back against plans by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to add two types of eyeless fish to the endangered species list.designating the toothless blindcat and the widemouth blindcat as “endangered,” a move leaders at the city’s water utility worry would result in the closure of wells that San Antonio relies on for access to the Edwards Aquifer.

“The toothless blindcat and the widemouth blindcat occupy a limited range, and populations of both species have likely been severely reduced since the introduction of groundwater wells in the late 19th to early 20th centuries,” the agency wrote.

Burton said part of the agency’s reasoning points to fish it says were found in one of SAWS’s pumps in 1978, when wells were not running. “This reaches through the entire region, all the way out to the irrigators in Comal and Hays County, San Marcos, New Braunfels, downstream down the Guadalupe River and the agriculture users in Medina County,” he said. “So the potential is far-reaching.”

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