Members of Bexar County Commissioners Court docket signed a decision urging the Texas Fee on Environmental High quality (TCEQ) to rethink its approval of a controversial wastewater plant within the county’s far northwestern stretch.
The decision, signed Tuesday by County Choose Peter Sakai and together with Commissioners Justin Rodriguez, Grant Moody and Tommy Calvert urges the TCEQ to carry a rehearing on the plant tied to the Guajolote Ranch improvement “within the curiosity of public well being, environmental safety and regulatory integrity.”
The court docket’s transfer comes days earlier than a Dec. 22 deadline for the TCEQ to resolve whether or not to reevaluate the wastewater plant following a request for a rehearing by the Scenic Loop-Helotes Creek Alliance, which is battling the large residential improvement.
The Alliance filed the request after the TCEQ authorised the wastewater plant allow in October. The group maintains that the plant, which can service Florida-based builder Lennar’s 2,900-home improvement, poses substantial dangers to the Edwards Aquifer. A 2020 research by the Southwest Analysis Institute cautioned that the plant’s handled wastewater might harm the delicate watershed.
State Rep. Sen. Donna Campbell, R-New Braunfels, whose district contains Guajolote Ranch, additionally wrote a letter to the TCEQ earlier this month demanding one other listening to on the wastewater plant.
If the TCEQ doesn’t schedule the rehearing, organizers from the Scenic Loop-Helotes Creek Alliance this week advised the Present that they plan to file a lawsuit in state district court docket over the matter.
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