{"id":382347,"date":"2026-07-22T12:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T12:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/382347\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T12:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T12:42:09","slug":"city-of-kerrville-issues-public-notice-for-sanitary-sewer-overflow-in-downtown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/382347\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Kerrville issues public notice for sanitary sewer overflow in downtown area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">KERRVILLE, Texas \u2013 The City of Kerrville issued a public notice Tuesday about a sanitary sewer overflow in an area south of downtown. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">In a news release, the city said the sewer overflow is located in the Town Creek area near State Highway 27 and Water Street. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Residents and visitors are encouraged to avoid Town Creek and downstream areas of the Guadalupe River toward Louise Hays Park and Kerrville-Schreiner Park until further notice due to a \u201cpotential water quality issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Though public works crews have assessed the affected areas since Thursday, some locations remain inaccessible due to high water levels, unsafe terrain, and flood debris, the city said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Flooding along Town Creek has delayed crews\u2019 response to the sewer overflow area with the proper equipment. They had to rebuild an access ramp to reach the affected area, the release states. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The City of Kerrville has notified the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and the Upper Guadalupe River Authority about the situation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">According to the city, crews will continue to monitor conditions and provide further updates once more information becomes available. <\/p>\n<p>Read also:<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KERRVILLE, Texas \u2013 The City of Kerrville issued a public notice Tuesday about a sanitary sewer overflow in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4034,133255,4035,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-382347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-hill-country-floods","tag-july-2026-floods","tag-kerrville","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}