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AUSTIN, Texas (April 9, 2025) — The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality proudly presents the winners of the 2025 Governor’s Texas Environmental Excellence Awards. These annual awards celebrate

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.

FORT STOCKTON, Texas (Sept. 5, 2023) — Belding Farms, a pecan grower in Fort Stockton, filed a petition with the Middle Pecos Groundwater Conservation District (GCD) to strengthen rules intended to protect 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.

Belding Farms, a 60-year-old pecan farm in Fort Stockton, has taken legal steps to halt renewal of a groundwater permit to export water out of Pecos County to protect its water rights and those of all others and to ensure sustainability of the aquifer.