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FORT STOCKTON, Texas (Aug.19, 2024) — Belding Farms, a nearly 60-year-old pecan grower in Fort Stockton, on Monday petitioned the local groundwater district to create a mitigation fund for offsetting water well impacts from lower aquifer levels that result from water exports, the first such petition in the state.

FORT STOCKTON, Texas (March 19, 2024) — Belding Farms, a pecan grower in Fort Stockton, expressed regret over a decision by the Middle Pecos Groundwater Conservation District declining to consider changing district rules to add protections for the Edwards-Trinity Aquifer that underlies Pecos County and feeds Comanche Springs.

Belding Farms, a pecan grower in Fort Stockton that is seeking to stop renewal of a groundwater permit to export water out of Pecos County, was denied its legal request to halt the process on Tuesday.

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