Schertz’s Second Water Supplier Costs About $200,000 a Year

A Tuesday workshop will put that annual expense beside a 2021 project estimate above $162 million and a projected need for more water around 2070.

By Comal.News Water, Utilities & Weather Desk · Source-linked local reporting

Published September 14, 2026 at 4:37 PM CDT2 min read

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Schertz will use Tuesday’s workshop to weigh whether it should keep paying for more than one water supplier while planning for a projected need for 2,500 additional acre-feet around 2070.

Schertz currently spends about $200,000 a year on CVLGC operations, including its share of lease payments; the 2021 stand-alone project estimate was $162,000,142 with about $15.5 million in annual operating costs.

A 2025 Schertz-Seguin Local Government Corporation supply plan estimated that Schertz would need another 2,500 acre-feet of water around 2070 under its expected-growth scenario. The city’s presentation says most of the water used in the territory Schertz is obligated to serve now comes from SSLGC.

The Second Supplier

The presentation says the Cibolo Valley Local Government Corporation was founded in 2011 with Cibolo, Converse, Schertz, Seguin and Selma; Converse, Seguin and Selma later withdrew. CVLGC obtained about 11,000 acre-feet of water rights from 2017 through 2019 and identified six preliminary well sites.

CVLGC’s leases cover about 89 landowners and 158 tracts, with annual lease payments of roughly $275,000. The payments approximately double when a production permit is issued and more than quadruple at full production, with an inflation adjustment also built into the leases.

The leases renew year to year after an initial 15-year term as long as CVLGC continues paying. The city’s slides say CVLGC must diligently pursue needed approvals, even though the member cities do not yet need the water.

What Council Will Weigh

The agenda labels Item 23 a workshop on future water demand and supply. The presentation frames the choice as how to secure enough water for Schertz’s future while supplying it cost-effectively and deciding whether the city should keep paying for more than one supplier.

The City Council is scheduled to take up the workshop at its 6 p.m. Sept. 15 meeting at the Hal Baldwin Municipal Complex.

Residents can use the official agenda to review the meeting location, public-comment rules and the rest of Tuesday’s business. The next consequential record will be any direction council gives staff and any later proposal governing Schertz’s CVLGC participation.

From the source record

Water-supply presentationSchertz Future Water Demand and Supply

The city’s presentation compares projected demand with the costs and obligations attached to its two principal water-supply organizations.

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City slides prepared for the Schertz City Council’s Sept. 15 water-supply workshop.

Schertz’s Second Water Supplier Costs About $200,000 a Year

The Second Supplier

What Council Will Weigh

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