Opponents of a controversial housing growth in Northwest Bexar County say they’re gearing up for court docket after the Texas Fee on Environmental High quality (TCEQ) final week declined to listen to an attraction over the undertaking’s wastewater allow.
On Dec. 26, attorneys representing the Larger Edwards Aquifer Alliance and the Metropolis of Gray Forrest confirmed that the TCEQ had turned down an attraction filed by the teams demanding a listening to on the plant wanted for Lennar’s 3,000-home Guajolote Ranch growth to maneuver ahead.
The 2 organizations filed an attraction after the TCEQ in October OKed a allow permitting Lennar to assemble a plant to discharge handled wastewater into Helotes Creek. That approval got here regardless of a 2020 Southwest Analysis Institute examine elevating considerations that discharge might “considerably degrade the watershed and the standard of water recharging the Edwards Aquifer.”
One other group against the development of the wastewater plant, the Scenic Loop-Helotes Creek Alliance, stated in a press launch that it now plans to carry the matter to district court docket in Travis County. The group plans to file its case by the tip of January, in response to the assertion.
To this point, Bexar County Commissioners Court docket, a handful of San Antonio Metropolis Council members, former Mayor Ron Nirenberg and State Sen. Donna Campbell, R-New Braunfels, have come out in opposition to the development of the water plant and the broader Guajolote Ranch growth.
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