From statesman, February 11, 2009...
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality could decide today to award a Hill Country subdivision the first permit to discharge treated wastewater into a creek that feeds the Barton Springs portion of the Edwards Aquifer.
The water control and improvement district associated with the Belterra subdivision applied to the state environmental office more than three years ago for permission to expand its wastewater treatment plant, hoping to discharge some treated wastewater into Bear Creek, which feeds Barton Springs. Under state standards and district plans, the effluent, which would be treated through a combination of gravity and chemical processes, should be clean enough to fish or swim in by the time it is discharged.
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