Greater Edwards Aquifer Association (GEAA)

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   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.