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Protect Our Creeks, Aquifers and Springs from Treated Wastewater!
As the Texas Hill Country adds population, more and more subdivisions want to send their sewage to treatment plants which discharge the treated effluent directly into creeks and rivers. Discharge of treated effluent into waterways is banned inside the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone, where water percolates through cracks and fissures in the limestone creek beds directly into the sensitive Aquifer below. But the practice is still allowed just upstream in the Contributing Zone, even though waterways there flow directly into the Recharge Zone, taking whatever pollutants they contain with them
Texas Currents -- July 2019
In This Issue: Frack Waste Allowed In Surface Water? | Pipeline Spill | Legislative Recap | Climate Resiliency and Reliable Water for Austin | Spring for Water | EarthX