Hundreds of pounds of trash were removed from a Comal County cave in an effort to keep the drinking water quality high in San Antonio.
“A lot of the rainwater washes into these caves and then eventually get to our drinking water eventually. So we want, we don’t want all or the trash to be the part of the filtration system. Some of them have like gasoline or gas so those are really toxic, like toxic waste,” said Dr. Mio Kintano with Bexar Grotto.
Dr Kintano explained that rainwater enters the caves and then flows to the Edwards Aquifer. The Edwards Aquifer is San Antonio’s main source of drinking water. Back in the day, it was common practice to use these caves as dumpsters. Dr. Kintano said it was an out of sight, out of mind mentality.
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