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Read TCEQ’s September 17 response, ask for answers before a decision, and help through community comments, the opposition map, volunteering or donations.
/updates/tceq-gerdes-letter-community-actionSupport Lost Pines Watch through the Donorbox donation form.
/donatePacifico’s air registration remains pending. Public Citizen raises concerns about TCEQ’s executive director moving to a business group promoting data centers. Bastrop County will discuss a proposal for expanded authority over industrial development on September 14. The same meeting includes an EdgeConneX proposal now limited to a land donation. Lost Pines Watch is also opening volunteer applications.
/updates/tceq-third-deficiency-cycle-tab-county-authorityExplore the community map, follow the land and permit record, and see residents’ formal challenges and growing TCEQ participation. Air Registration 185019 remains pending as of September 7.
/updates/cedar-creeks-next-chapter-is-still-being-decidedAqua’s approved August 4 minutes need one mathematical clarification; TCEQ’s September 2 supervisory-review milestone is again displayed while Registration 185019 remains pending; Senator Schwertner and Representative Gerdes are engaging the agency; and a new Lost Pines Watch technical supplement sharpens the emissions questions with two comparator registrations.
/updates/new-records-a-changed-tceq-timeline-and-legislative-follow-throughTCEQ closed Pacifico’s second deficiency cycle after one elapsed day and logged a ‘Final Package to Team Leader or Supervisor for Review’ milestone on September 2. Air Registration 185019 / Project 413471 remains pending—not approved—and no deficiency notice, response, corrected application or final technical review is public. Residents are urged to call Rep. Stan Gerdes and Sen. Charles Schwertner immediately, before TCEQ acts.
/updates/pacifico-air-permit-technical-reviewIn a response relayed by State Rep. Stan Gerdes's chief of staff, Pacifico said its earlier JETI figures are out of date and described approximately 1,100 MW of nameplate generation and 770 MW delivered to the customer; the underlying email reviewed by Lost Pines Watch is not presently published. Its August air application identifies 48 turbines and states 1,326 MW of total maximum nominal electrical output but does not mention the ORC equipment listed in the JETI filing and shown on Aqua's May concept plan. Aqua's June water study predates those newer project descriptions. Lost Pines Watch is asking Aqua to table Item 6 when it considers the request September 1, pending one current, reconciled project description and Aqua's engineer's public confirmation that the existing study still applies.
/updates/pacifico-says-its-earlier-project-figures-are-out-of-date-aqua-should-pause-before-votingSource-linked responses to recurring claims about jobs, water, permitting, technology, national security and project necessity.
/claim-tracker/data-center-fallaciesTwenty-nine substantive claim groups from Pacifico’s August 2026 handout checked against its applications and public filings.
/claim-tracker/pacifico-fact-sheetSource-linked review of 28 Tomorrow Begins Here and related Texas talking points about Pacifico and data centers.
/claim-tracker/tomorrow-begins-herePacifico’s Cedar Creek air application identifies 48 gas turbines with 1,326 MW of stated maximum nominal output.
/share/1326-mw-air-applicationLost Pines Watch has now obtained Pacifico's principal 54-page Cedar Creek air-registration application, submitted and received August 14. The filing identifies 48 natural-gas turbines across six model families and expressly states a maximum nominal output of 1,326 megawatts. That is a different capacity measure from the earlier JETI description of 710 MW of site-rated redundant power. We have also obtained related records, and our review has identified multiple issues and unanswered questions that warrant careful scrutiny.
/updates/pacifico-air-filing-identifies-48-turbines-and-1-326-megawattsTCEQ's official record shows Pacifico Air Registration 185019 still pending, but the deficiency cycle closed August 26 and a Final Package Rework Cycle opened the same day. Residents should submit written technical objections for association with the project file, monitor the public meeting requested by Rep. Stan Gerdes, and track any mailed approval for the Motion-to-Overturn deadline. Aqua WSC separately placed discussion and possible action on Large Volume Water Service to Pacifico on its September 1 agenda; the new resolution and proposed agreement were not linked on Aqua's public meeting page when checked August 30.
/updates/urgent-pacifico-air-registration-enters-final-package-cycle-aqua-vote-set-for-september-1Index to the Tomorrow Begins Here review, Pacifico fact-sheet audit and common data-center arguments.
/claim-trackerHISTORICAL UPDATE — SUPERSEDED AUGUST 30: This article preserves the August 25 resident campaign before Pacifico's principal application was public. The released application now identifies 48 turbines and 1,326 MW of stated maximum nominal output, and Registration 185019 remains pending. This standard-permit registration is not being processed through an ordinary project-specific comment period or contested-case-hearing route. Use the current action guide to submit material technical information, support Rep. Stan Gerdes's public-meeting request and monitor any mailed decision for post-decision deadlines.
/updates/three-resident-actions-to-press-tceq-before-pacifico-air-registration-185019-is-decidedHISTORICAL ACTION UPDATE — EVENT PASSED: This article preserves the August 24 Commissioners Court campaign and its dated meeting materials. Pacifico's released air application now identifies 48 turbines and 1,326 MW of stated maximum nominal output. For current participation guidance on still-pending Registration 185019 / Project 413471, use the latest action guide rather than the copy-ready language below.
/updates/monday-ask-bastrop-county-to-demand-a-full-public-tceq-reviewHISTORICAL UPDATE — SUPERSEDED AUGUST 30: County records confirm that Pacifico withdrew its two Bastrop County Chapter 312 applications. Pacifico said it also withdrew its Bastrop ISD/JETI J0049 application, but no Comptroller disposition confirming that withdrawal has been located. Neither action withdrew Air Registration 185019 / Project 413471. Pacifico's principal air application is now public and identifies 48 turbines and 1,326 MW of stated maximum nominal output. Registration 185019 remains pending. Use the current filing guide instead of the dated call and submission language below.
/updates/critical-pacifico-withdraws-tax-break-applications-as-expedited-air-review-remains-activeThe adopted resolution calls for sustainable-supply proof, cumulative review, transparent metering, non-potable alternatives and full accounting of water associated with electricity generation. It strengthens the case for Bastrop County to withhold Pacifico tax abatements while the complete water plan remains unresolved.
/updates/lost-pines-gcd-data-center-groundwater-resolutionProposed Texas health gate, 1–4 community-impact standard and provisional scores for Cedar Creek, FM 535, GW Ranch and stronger models.
/data-center-standardHISTORICAL UPDATE — SUPERSEDED AUGUST 30: This article records what was publicly known when TCEQ's expedited review of Permit 185019 / Project 413471 began. Pacifico's principal 54-page application is now public and identifies 48 turbines and 1,326 MW of stated maximum nominal output. Registration 185019 remains pending. The older screening scenario and copy-ready requests below are preserved for context; use the released-application analysis and current action guide for present claims and filing language.
/updates/pacifico-cedar-creek-air-registration-found-expedited-tceq-review-beginsCORRECTION — AUGUST 16: LIV's current event page does not state that registration is closed. The in-person Pacifico Town Hall is scheduled for Thursday, August 20, from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church Parish Hall, 4045 FM 535 in Bastrop. Check LIV's event page for current RSVP availability and confirm the walk-in policy before attending. This is a community event, not a government hearing or formal project decision. The Action Center also includes a downloadable advocacy contact guide provided by a community member and dated August 11. The guide is shared as a nonofficial resource in its original form; verify contact information against official agency pages before use.
/updates/liv-pacifico-town-hall-details-corrected-community-contact-guide-addedPacifico's newly posted 16-page Supplement 2 adds an eligible-equipment list and a generic site-selection graphic, but most of the file repeats Supplement 1. The list confirms combustion turbines, emissions controls, gas compressors, air-cooled equipment, transformers, switchgear, interconnection systems, tanks, pumps, and other balance-of-plant equipment. It still does not disclose turbine count or model, final placement and setbacks, operating hours, emissions and noise modeling, complete water and fire-water plans, hazardous materials or battery systems, the data-center identity and power arrangement, or public comparative economics. J0049 remains in Application Phase; the filing is not project approval.
/updates/supplement-2-adds-an-equipment-list-and-still-leaves-the-project-largely-undescribedBastrop County Commissioners Court tabled Item E.4 on August 10 after strong public testimony and written community input challenged language that could understate tools the County already has. Lost Pines Watch agrees with that criticism and has corrected its earlier guidance: residents were right to oppose adoption of the draft as written. The next ask is not a vague declaration of powerlessness; it is a legally reviewed, targeted use of existing fire-safety, BESS, public-health, infrastructure, records, and incentive authority while preserving the case for stronger state legislation. New source material includes Nick Lealos's working draft, LIV's written comments, Austin County's signed BESS and data-center order, KVUE's meeting report, KXAN's interview with Earth Native founder Dave Scott, a GIS-confirmed shared property line, and Dave's August 11 view across that boundary. For the August 13 BISD meeting, residents may address Pacifico during Open Forum even though it is not on the agenda; trustees cannot deliberate or vote on the unposted subject, but they may provide facts, state existing policy, or propose a future agenda item.
/updates/county-tables-flawed-data-center-resolution-after-strong-community-inputEditor's note, August 11: Item E.4 was tabled after strong community input. This update originally told residents to support the draft while asking the County to use existing tools; that guidance was wrong. Nick Lealos and LIV correctly challenged language that could understate present county authority. An August 12 LIV Zoom, the remaining August 13 public-comment routes, and the August 20 LIV forum are current, with corrected guidance to use existing lawful tools, preserve every option, and not return Item E.4 unchanged.
/updates/five-public-meetings-this-week-and-an-august-20-cedar-creek-forumTCEQ indexes two amended motions asking the Commission to review and stay Pacifico's TXR1565YW and Black Chamber's TXR1551YV; neither authorization has been stayed, and the filings' assertions are not agency findings. Editor's note, August 11: Commissioners Court tabled Item E.4 after strong community input. This article's original instruction to support the draft was wrong and has been replaced with guidance to use existing lawful tools and not return Item E.4 unchanged.
/updates/tceq-challenge-docketed-as-august-10-county-authority-vote-approachesReverse-chronological directory of every canonical public page on Lost Pines Watch.
/site-indexAqua WSC confirmed that its board tabled Item 13 and did not approve proposed Resolution 26.08.02 on August 4. The open-record production shows that Garver reports existing supply and firm pumping below the capacity ratios cited in its revised study; even Pacifico's developer-supplied 14-gpm peak request depends on new Watterson wells and treatment, a pump station, storage and approximately 2.5 miles of approach main. It also contains materially different February and May layouts: the superseded concept shows two large data-center buildings and a compact power block, while the later plan shows four narrower buildings—two marked future—and a lengthened generation block. Neither provides a complete MW schedule, so 710 MW of generation and approximately 490 MW of IT load remain JETI full-buildout figures rather than capacities verified by the drawings.
/updates/aqua-tables-pacifico-again-after-study-reveals-conditional-water-serviceInteractive statewide screen of projects the ERCOT-centered directive may not reach or stop.
/maps/texas-data-center-directive-gapGovernor Abbott's August 3 directive did not stop every Texas data center. Its operative language reaches projects advancing through ERCOT's interconnection process, while construction, onsite generation, air permits, water agreements, incentives, non-ERCOT Texas, and already operating or approved campuses are not halted by the letter itself. Lost Pines Watch's deliberately inclusive map tracks 54 mappable project groups plus four unlocated records with private, co-located, dedicated, inherited, hybrid, non-ERCOT, or size-threshold questions. Gray markers are context cases—not claims of exemption. Cedar Creek's exact ERCOT status remains publicly unresolved.
/updates/abbott-data-center-directive-leaves-an-ercot-only-gapThe 12-page packet for Resolution 26.08.02 says Aqua has sufficient capacity to serve a data center, but the attached engineering analysis tests a developer-supplied request of 9 gpm maximum-day demand, 14 gpm peak-hour demand, and no fire flow. Service is contingent on specified infrastructure. The packet does not establish total campus water demand, cooling design, fire-water supply, annual volume, final customer identity, or the enforceable terms of the future Non-Standard Service Agreement.
/updates/aqua-s-pacifico-study-models-only-23-lues-and-no-fire-flowSource-linked analysis of Aqua’s narrow water-demand model, conditions and missing questions.
/pacifico-aqua-feasibility-studyOfficial TMRS records show $50 million and $100 million commitments to two BlackChamber real-estate opportunity funds. A separate TCEQ record identifies Black Chamber Partners as construction-stormwater operator for the BCG Cedar Creek Campus. These records establish separate facts; no cited public record shows that either TMRS-backed fund finances Cedar Creek. The source-linked explainer preserves that project-level financing question as unverified.
/updates/texas-retirement-capital-and-the-blackchamber-funding-loop-documentedExplainer separating documented public-retirement fund commitments and BlackChamber’s Cedar Creek role from the unproven project-level financing link.
/cedar-creek-money-loopAqua WSC's official August 4 agenda lists Item 13: discuss and take action on approving Large Volume Water Service to Pacifico Energy Development LLC through Resolution No. 26.08.02 in Zone 2. The agenda schedules discussion and possible action; it does not guarantee that a vote will occur. It does not attach the revised feasibility study or resolution, so residents should ask Aqua to publish the engineering basis, full demand and fire-flow figures, infrastructure requirements, and cost allocation before any final action.
/updates/aqua-formally-schedules-a-pacifico-water-service-voteThe Texas Comptroller's qualifying-large-data-center register names AI cloud company CoreWeave as the occupant of EdgeConneX AU02, DFW33220N as owner, and DFW33220N Operations 1 as operator. Community Impact reports the $440 million building is expected to open in August. The same state register separately lists ECX AUS11-16 with EdgeConneX affiliates, but it does not identify an outside end customer for those buildings. Both registrations qualify for a program offering a 20-year sales-and-use-tax exemption on qualifying purchases, subject to statutory requirements.
/updates/coreweave-officially-identified-as-aus02-occupantHISTORICAL PERMIT WATCH — SUPERSEDED AUGUST 30: At the time of the earlier August 9 check, TCEQ's pending list showed no publicly identifiable NSR entry under the known Pacifico, Black Chamber, B&W Ranch, CCK, Earl Callahan, or Cedar Creek project identifiers; that limited search did not prove that no application or pre-application work existed. TCEQ received Registration 185019 on August 14, and Pacifico's complete principal application is now public. It identifies 48 turbines and 1,326 MW of stated maximum nominal output. The current Cedar Creek dossier rechecks and supersedes this August 9 watch.
/updates/permit-watch-and-pacifico-due-diligence-expandedThe Resident Action Center now highlights Aqua WSC’s August 4 public board meeting, where Aqua staff reportedly said Pacifico will be discussed. Aqua’s official site confirms the date, time, and location; the August agenda was not yet posted when checked. The site also lists the next official meetings of Bastrop County Commissioners Court, ESD 1, the Local Emergency Planning Committee, Bastrop ISD, and ESD 3, while clearly distinguishing scheduled meetings from confirmed Pacifico agenda items.
/updates/august-public-meeting-watch-addedThe Observatory added TCEQ authorizations TXR1551YV and TXR1565YW, identifying Black Chamber Partners on a 304-acre data-center footprint and Pacifico CCK Energy 1 on a 173.54-acre power footprint. The update also adds Aqua’s tabled large-volume water request, newly registered project entities, the less-advanced Ohio record, the estimated power-side subsidy scale, pipeline screening, air-permit status, and a source-linked chronology. Stormwater coverage is explicitly distinguished from approval of the overall project.
/updates/construction-operators-water-record-and-project-timeline-addedComplete dated change log with a stable URL for every substantive update.
/updatesSignup page for meeting, permit, record and decision alerts.
/alertsVerified numbers, source links, contacts and reporting cautions.
/pressFact cards, shareable copy and printable community materials.
/shareHistorical: earlier JETI materials described 710 MW in a corridor with 5,701 anonymous residential sites within three miles.
/share/710-mw-communityHistorical: $2.237 billion of investment, 25 permanent jobs and 710 MW appear in the earlier revised JETI filing.
/share/25-permanent-jobsAugust 4 outcome. Aqua has since scheduled discussion and possible action on the request for September 1.
/share/water-request-tabledTwo active construction-stormwater authorizations cover the data-center and power footprints.
/share/477-acres-disturbanceHistorical record of the Chapter 312 and JETI requests tied to the generation project.
/share/estimated-tax-reliefCommissioners Court adopted the updated Chapter 312 guidelines after the public hearing. The county's signed 16-page record now confirms the July 27 adoption, a two-year term and Commissioner Mark Meuth's absence. This countywide policy made the County eligible to consider abatements; it did not approve Pacifico's individual reinvestment-zone or tax-abatement requests.
/updates/countywide-tax-abatement-guidelines-adoptedThe Cedar Creek dossier now explains the air-pollution, low-frequency noise, fire and fuel-system, waste-heat, and operating-duration questions created by a 710 MW simple-cycle gas-turbine facility beside homes and schools. These are documented technology characteristics and required studies—not claims that unmodeled project-specific impacts have already been quantified. REQ-001, seeking the complete TCEQ air record, was submitted by email on July 26.
/updates/gas-turbine-siting-record-expandedThe site now states the evidence-based site-suitability conclusion directly, adds statewide air-permit precedent without attributing unproven conduct to Pacifico, reviews the July 27 county tax-abatement draft, summarizes the proposed Bastrop Bill of Rights, and publishes verified meeting, contact, records-request, TCEQ, legislative, and JETI action routes.
/updates/location-case-and-resident-action-center-expandedThe GIS map replaced the earlier undersized ownership snapshots with CAD-derived site boundaries supplied from Bastrop CAD ParcelARI data fetched July 23, 2026. Amazon is now shown as an approximately 1,300-acre union of 24 former CTX/Creekside parcels. EdgeConneX-related mapping now separates AUS01, AUS02, the 179-acre Campus 2 tract, and the full 704-acre Campus 3 host parcel; Campus 3 is dashed because its approximately 400-acre project footprint has not been filed.
/updates/amazon-and-edgeconnex-tract-extents-correctedThe GIS map added regional fire-history and emergency-response context. Official Texas A&M Forest Service records document the 2011 Bastrop Complex and 2015 Hidden Pines fires, while Bastrop County ESD No. 1's official site identifies the responsible emergency-services district. These sources provide regional context; they do not establish project-specific fire risk or verify staffing, apparatus, response times, water supply, or industrial-fire capability at any station.
/updates/drought-and-fixed-fire-service-facilities-addedThe strongest facts, unresolved questions and immediate resident actions in plain language.
/quick-summaryLabeled real-world visual references and careful limits on what they can establish.
/could-look-likeEvidence and community-information intake with privacy safeguards.
/submitThe GIS map added privacy-preserving community context around Pacifico's filed perimeter. Parcel placement is anchored to Bastrop CAD ParcelARI, and Earth Native's official campus materials document an educational use beside the proposed development. Household names, street addresses, ownership fields, and resident-submitted locations are not displayed; other public-facing facility markers remain reference locations rather than independently verified impact findings.
/updates/community-proximity-layers-addedThe GIS map now separates FM 535 corridor parcels using Bastrop CAD ParcelARI geometry and measures distances from Pacifico's filed perimeter rather than from a center point. It also links readers to official Texas A&M Forest Service histories of the 2011 Bastrop Complex and 2015 Hidden Pines fires as regional context, without presenting those histories as project-specific risk findings.
/updates/corridor-parcels-and-fire-controls-correctedThe map now treats the eight property IDs listed on J0049 page 7 as the filed Pacifico project area and reconciles them to county GIS polygons. Supplement 1, Figures 2–3, depicts the same proposed-project boundary. The tract descriptions total 2,810.0553 acres, while the applicant narrative says approximately 2,842 acres.
/updates/pacifico-tract-geometry-correctedThe Observatory corrected the earlier suggestion that dispatchable generation may be exempt from the JETI compelling-factor requirement. SB 2322 did not become law.
/updates/legal-correction-recordedTwelve page-level findings were added, including the project-scope change, Ohio alternative, and revised economic projections.
/updates/supplement-1-indexedEDCAUS11 and EDCAUS12 now identify Burr Computer Environment Inc. as the TDLR owner of record; any other relationship remains a separate research question.
/updates/owner-records-correctedAUS02, EDCAUS11, and EDCAUS12 are tracked separately and analyzed cumulatively.
/updates/fm-535-cluster-expandedPublic-record overview, decision case and current resident action.
/Meetings, speaking guidance, petitions, contacts and records routes.
/actionProject chronology, risks, filings, known facts and unanswered questions.
/cedar-creekSearchable claims, findings, source records and open questions.
/evidenceSeparate project records and cumulative infrastructure questions for the corridor.
/fm-535Filed boundaries, community proximity, drought, wildfire and infrastructure layers.
/mapEvidence classifications, correction rules, privacy practices and research methods.
/methodology