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Georgetown council adopts industrial pretreatment program and updates wastewater surcharge ordinance
Summary
The council approved an industrial pretreatment ordinance required by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and an updated wastewater surcharge ordinance to recover higher treatment costs from stronger industrial discharges.
At its May 5, 2025 meeting, the Georgetown City Council approved two ordinances establishing an industrial pretreatment program required by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) and updating the city's wastewater surcharge to recover costs for treating higher-strength wastewater.
The ordinances, presented by Tiffany Misdiaz of city staff and Coby G, project manager for Freese and Nichols, will allow the city to set technically based local limits for certain pollutants from industrial users, permit significant industrial users (SIUs), and charge surcharges for biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), total suspended solids (TSS) and other pollutants above typical domestic wastewater levels.
The industrial pretreatment program is designed to prevent toxic or corrosive discharges from impairing treatment processes or harming the San Gabriel River downstream. "The goal of the industrial pretreatment program is to give the city the ability to regulate those toxic pollutants and to keep them out of their wastewater…
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