The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has filed an interim letter of objection to Dripping Springs’ Texas Pollutant Disposal Elimination System (TPDES) discharge permit with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
In a letter submitted to the TCEQ, Richard A. Wooster, Acting Associate Director of National Pollutant Discharge Elimination Systems (NPDES), said it wasn’t clear how the permit conforms to guidelines established by the Clean Water Act and NPDES regulations.
Dripping Springs’ permit calls for the city to construct a new wastewater facility that could discharge up to 995,000 gallons of treated effluent into Walnut Springs, which is a tributary of Onion Creek.
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