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Public commenters urge caution on desalination and estuary discharges; TCEQ warns about ex parte limits
Summary
During the public-comment period, speakers urged the commission to consider estuarine salinity impacts and to use previously studied offshore ‘green zones’ for seawater desalination discharges; the chair reminded speakers that ex parte rules constrain discussion of pending permit matters.
Several members of the public addressed the commission during the Feb. 13 public-comment session, pressing the agency to consider estuary salinity impacts in permit decisions and to encourage desalination applicants to use studied offshore "green zones" for intake and discharge.
Jason Hale of Corpus Christi urged the commission to account for heightened salinity in barrier-island estuaries and to require three-dimensional hydrodynamic mixing models for high-volume, hypersaline…
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