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Opponents seek Burnet treatment plan changes
Posted: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 12:33 PM - 7,944 Readers
By: James Walker
Opponents of the City of Burnet’s application for a permit that would
allow it to more than double its current allowable discharge of
wastewater and effluent into Hamilton Creek urged Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality officials to compel the city to significantly
alter the application. Officials with the cities of Austin and
Lakeway, the Protect Lake Travis environmental organization and water
supply companies and property owners along Hamilton Creek in the
southern portion of Burnet County expressed alarm at the possibility
the city of Burnet would be permitted to increase its allowable
discharge into Hamilton Creek from the current 726,000 gallons a day to
1.7 million gallons a day if the permit application is approved by TCEQ. The comments were made at a public hearing held by the TCEQ Thursday evening at the Burnet Community Center. Burnet
plans to build a new wastewater and sewer treatment plant and has
petitioned TCEQ to be allowed to raise its discharge limits in order to
accommodate future growth. Burnet currently disposes of almost
all of its wastewater and effluent through irrigation, but maintains it
needs to preserve and possibly increase its right to lawfully discharge
into Hamilton Creek if circumstances make it necessary in the future. Opponents
of Burnet’s permit maintain increased discharge will degrade Hamilton
Creek and Lake Travis, which the creek empties into more than 14 miles
downstream. “The draft permit would clearly result in
significant degradation of Hamilton Creek versus current conditions,”
Ross Crow, an assistant city attorney with the city of Austin, told the
TCEQ officials. “Predicted nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations at
the mouth of the creek, could be increased on average 68 and 23 times,
respectively, under the draft permit.”
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