{"id":1041586,"date":"2026-10-07T10:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T05:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041586"},"modified":"2026-10-07T10:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T05:24:16","slug":"spacexs-rocket-testing-plant-overpumped-128-million-gallons-of-groundwater-in-three-years-now-this-texas-city-has-to-pay-175000-in-penalties-and-fund-a-new-monitoring-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/07\/spacexs-rocket-testing-plant-overpumped-128-million-gallons-of-groundwater-in-three-years-now-this-texas-city-has-to-pay-175000-in-penalties-and-fund-a-new-monitoring-system\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX&#8217;s rocket testing plant overpumped 128 million gallons of groundwater in three years; now this Texas city has to pay $175,000 in penalties and fund a new monitoring system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX violated groundwater rules, and a Texas city has to pay thousands of dollars for the same. The US city of McGregor has agreed to pay at least $175,000 in penalties after SpaceX&#8217;s rocket testing operation allegedly overpumped 128 million gallons of groundwater over three years. The city owns the site and the wells SpaceX used, making it responsible for the penalties under a settlement with the Southern Trinity Groundwater Conservation District.<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>\nThe deal includes a $50,000 payment due by November 1, followed by quarterly payments of $1,250 for 25 years to fund a new groundwater monitoring system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX violated groundwater rules, and a Texas city has to pay thousands of dollars for the same. The US city of McGregor has agreed to pay at least $175,000 in penalties after SpaceX&#8217;s rocket testing operation allegedly overpumped 128 million gallons of groundwater over three years. The city owns the site and the wells SpaceX used, making it responsible for the penalties under a settlement with the Southern Trinity Groundwater Conservation District. \u200b The deal includes a $50,000 payment due by November 1, followed by quarterly payments of $1,250 for 25 years to fund a new groundwater monitoring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041587,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041586\/revisions\/1041587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}