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TCEQ approves Quadvest wastewater permit after protests over discharge-route mapping
Summary
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality voted to issue a new wastewater discharge permit to Quadvest LP, despite protests that the application relies on outdated USGS mapping and lacks an on-site hydrological field study to confirm whether the discharge route is a jurisdictional water.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality voted to adopt the administrative law judge’s proposed order and issue a wastewater discharge permit to Quadvest LP for permit number WQ0016247001 after considering competing arguments over the application’s description of the discharge route.
Quadvest’s counsel, Curran Walker, told commissioners the proposal for decision (PFD) was correctly issued and supported by commission staff. Protestants, represented by Lisa Sellers, urged denial or deferral, saying the application relies on outdated U.S. Geological…
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