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Residents urge Manor to move wastewater plant off Wilburger Creek Greenway floodplain
Summary
Several residents told the Manor City Council during public comment that a proposed 98-acre wastewater treatment plant site sits in the Wilburger Creek floodplain and poses public-safety and environmental risks; speakers asked county and city leaders to protect the land as parkland instead.
Residents pressed Manor elected officials to reconsider a planned wastewater treatment-plant site that they said sits in the Wilburger Creek Greenway and in the floodplain.
The concerns came during the meeting’s public-comment period as speakers handed maps to council members and described repeated flooding at the site and on adjoining property. “It is a dangerous raging river that destroys everything in its path,” said Anne, a resident who gave council members maps of the area and asked county leaders to help buy the 98-acre site from the City of Manor and find a different location for the plant.
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