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TCEQ approves City of Kyle wastewater permit amendment despite objections over Plum Creek impacts
Summary
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on Nov. 19 voted to issue a renewed and amended TPDES permit allowing the City of Kyle to expand wastewater discharge into Plum Creek to an annual average of 12,000,000 gallons per day.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on Nov. 19 voted to issue a renewed and amended Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit allowing the City of Kyle to expand its wastewater discharge into Plum Creek to an annual average flow of 12,000,000 gallons per day.
The commission adopted the administrative law judges' proposal for decision, agreed with the executive director's recommendations and approved the draft permit, including a 0.5 milligrams per liter total phosphorus limit in the final two phases of the permit.
Why it matters: Protesters warned the expanded discharge could depress dissolved oxygen, change algal and macroinvertebrate communities and violate Texas surface water quality standards and anti‑degradation rules in Plum Creek. The commission and the executive director concluded the record and calibrated QUAL-TEX modeling show the permit, with the…
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