TCEQ Public Meeting in Bastrop, Monday, Sept. 15, 7 pm. Message from Andy Wier, Simsboro Aquifer Water Defense Fund

Andy Wier, Executive Director, Simsboro Aquifer Water Defense Fund

Do you or your family live, work or play along Piney Creek between Camp Swift and the Colorado?

The TCEQ has set the public meeting to take questions and hear comments regarding this wastewater permit.

Monday, September 15, 2025, 7:00 PM

Kerr Community Center

1308 Walnut Street

Bastrop, TX 78602

Up until the end of this TCEQ public meeting, in Bastrop, you may also file comments electronically at https://www14.tceq.texas.gov/epic/eComment/

Enter permit WQ0013548001

Comments in person or electronically are very important. During the comment period, you must list any concerns you have regarding the wastewater permit. If you decide to take legal action at a later date, you may only argue the issues you raised during the public comment period.

The permit application, Executive Director’s preliminary decision, and draft permit are available for viewing and copying at Bastrop Public Library, 1100 Church Street, Bastrop, Texas.

PERMIT NO. WQ0013548001

APPLICATION AND PRELIMINARY DECISION.

Utilities, Inc. of Texas, P.O. Box 140164, Austin, Texas 78714, has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for a major amendment to Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (TPDES) Permit No. WQ0013548001, to authorize an increase in the discharge of treated domestic wastewater from a daily average flow not to exceed 350,000 gallons per day to an annual average flow not to exceed 2,000,000 gallons per day, relocate Outfall 002, and to discontinue the effluent irrigation fields. TCEQ received this application on May 25, 2023.

The facility is located at 101 Cool Water Drive, in Bastrop County, Texas 78602. The treated effluent will be discharged to an unnamed tributary, thence to Piney Creek, thence to the Colorado River, Above La Grange in Segment No. 1434 of the Colorado River Basin. The unclassified receiving water uses are minimal aquatic life use for the unnamed tributary and intermediate aquatic life use for Piney Creek. The designated uses for Segment No. 1434 are primary contact recreation, public water supply, and exceptional aquatic life use.

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