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Crockett officials say TCEQ sampling violations were procedural; utility projects and enforcement deadlines loom
Summary
City staff told the council two TCEQ sampling errors were due to procedural mistakes; staff added supervisory sign-off and continuing-education requirements and flagged imminent TCEQ enforcement deadlines tied to aging wastewater equipment and clarifier replacements.
City staff told the mayor and council that two recent Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) notices resulted from sampling and procedural errors, not from water‑quality contamination.
A staff member explained the errors in detail: one sample was missing when it was sent to the lab, and another was submitted outside the required 30‑minute window (taken about six hours late). "That was something that he was not familiar with enough to catch…
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