The mission of Save Salado Creek is to safeguard the health of Salado Creek and its environment through science-based practices, sustained advocacy for long/term watershed protection, and community engagement.

Your generous donation will play a crucial role in conducting the necessary lab testing, providing scientific evidence and support, enlisting our expert scientists and witnesses, and securing essential legal advice to oppose the multiple draft permits issued by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
We urgently need your help to reopen the comments on the permit application for a proposed subdivision currently identified as 050 Salado Creek. The application was filed by South Central Water Company and Whitis Land Investments, Ltd., of Houston.
The 050 Salado Creek permit would allow almost 1 million gallons of treated sewage to be discharged every day into the Salado Creek from an outlet only 5 miles from the village of Salado.
Please ask TCEQ to reopen the official public comment period for the 050 Salado Creek draft permit now. During TCEQ's previous comment period for this draft permit, zero comments — none at all — were submitted to the agency. That was because both TCEQ and the applicant failed to provide adequate public notice and a copy of the draft permit to the public. By contrast, the public submitted more than 100 comments on the draft permit for Mustang Springs, and almost 300 comments for The Reserve At Salado Creek.
We are asking you to immediately submit comments on 050 Salado Creek WWTP. If TCEQ does not reopen the comment period, TCEQ's commissioners will give final approval to the 050 Salado Creek permit within weeks.
Go to: TCEQ Online Comment Form
Enter permit number: WQ0016330001
Copy & Paste this paragraph in the comment box:
I am concerned about the new wastewater permit applications on Salado Creek. I did not learn about the 050 Salado Creek draft permit until after TCEQ closed the comment period for this application. I also have not been able to see the draft permit itself. No one else on Salado Creek apparently knew about this draft permit either, since zero public comments were submitted on it during the official comment period. I am asking TCEQ to immediately reopen the official comment period for the 050 Salado Creek draft permit, and to provide a copy of the draft permit to the public.

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has been processing permit applications for 12 new wastewater facilities that could discharge up to 8 million gallons of inadequately treated sewage everyday into Salado Creek. This is one of the largest concentrations of new wastewater permit applications anywhere in Texas. Salado Creek is a pristine stream that runs over the Edwards Aquifer in Bell and Williamson Counties. TCEQ has already approved 5 of these applications, and if the agency approves all 12, the results could be disastrous.
The harmful effects on Salado Creek could include:
“Save Salado Creek” is a community association that is working to stop these permits from being approved. These permits will allow unsafe levels of chemicals to be left in the processed waste water.






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