Austin Water is no longer pursuing an Aquifer Storage and Recovery project in Bastrop County.

The details: Although Austin City Council was scheduled to vote on a collaboration agreement with Bastrop County entities, which would have advanced the project to a field testing phase, Austin Water withdrew the item from the Nov. 20 Austin City Council agenda.

The decision was announced Nov. 19.

“While Austin put our best foot forward to achieve the collaboration and partnership that would be needed to complete testing and eventually build such a regional project, we didn’t reach the level of partnership that is needed,” Austin Water Director Shay Ralls Roalson said in a memorandum sent to Austin City Council.

Bastrop City Manager Sylvia Carrillo-Trevino noted the removal of the agenda item.

“The residents in Bastrop won,” she said in a Nov. 19 statement.