Who Controls What, and Where to Check Their Work
Water Infrastructure Aqua Water Supply Corporation — approves large-volume service agreements. No public online portal for board minutes/agendas has been confirmed — records here have come through direct public information requests. If you find one, tell us.
Aquifer Drawdown Lost Pines Groundwater Conservation District — the local authority responsible for permitting and monitoring groundwater wells in this area, including tracking depth, aquifer, and status for individual wells.
- Well Mapping — search by owner or parcel
Tax Abatements Bastrop County Commissioners Court — the county's general governing body, deciding on everything from road maintenance to multi-hundred-million-dollar development deals. Tax abatements like this one are one specific thing they approve, not their only function.
Printable: The Questions We Still Need Answered
Help Us Help You. Take these questions to a meeting and report back.
These aren't generic questions — each one is built to be hard to dodge: it names a specific number or document an official has already stated publicly, then asks for a direct comparison, a yes/no, or a specific date. A vague answer to a question like that is visibly a non-answer, which is the point.
How to Get the Documents Yourself
Every "unconfirmed" answer on this site traces back to a document that isn't public yet — but nothing stops any resident from requesting it directly. We've written up the exact templates we use ourselves, where to actually send them (Bastrop County routes requests through the Sheriff's Office Open Records Division, not the Clerk), and how to search the county's own document portal before you even file a request.
The core of it: the Texas Public Information Act gives any person the right to request existing records from a governmental body, and you don't have to explain why. This isn't Texas-specific in principle — most states have an equivalent public records law with a similar structure.
Find Out Who's Really Behind an LLC
Local government deals often route through purpose-built shell companies — a generic name that tells you nothing on its own. Texas SOSDirect lets you search any entity by name for free, and pulling the actual filing details (which is where the real names are) usually costs about $1. That's genuinely worth it for a citation you can stand behind instead of a guess.
A few things worth knowing before you start: the Registered Agent tab is usually just a national filing service (CSC, Northwest Registered Agent, etc.) — low value, doesn't tell you who's really involved. The Management tab is where actual names show up. And a registered address matching a known company's real headquarters is often the single most useful thing you can check.
How to Get Involved & Help Keep This Site Current
This page is built for Cedar Creek residents — but if your own county is reviewing or considering a data center application, the tools below (public records requests, how to read agendas vs. minutes, how to identify who's really behind a shell company) were what actually helped us find and report the facts here. Take what's useful.
CCDCFACTS is maintained by a small team with limited capacity. The Cedar Creek data center project will run for years, through many more phases — permitting, construction, water infrastructure, revenue reporting — each one worth public scrutiny. If you know of an upcoming hearing, a document, or a correction this site is missing, send it in. Every tip is checked against primary sources before anything is published; a tip is a lead, not a citation, until then.
Attending a Commissioners Court, Aqua WSC, or LPGCD meeting? Texas law (Gov't Code § 551.023) gives you the right to record any open meeting. Notes, recordings, or a voice-to-text transcript — even rough ones — help us know what happened faster than official minutes are usually available. We always verify against the official record before publishing anything as fact.
A Note on Automation
We use automated tools to help monitor for new public filings and coverage. Nothing is published without human review against primary sources — this is a scrape-to-human-review process, not scrape-to-publish.
Researching something similar where you live? We're happy to share what we've learned — email us.