Bulverde–Public Meeting: Silesia Properties permit application to discharge into Honey Creek

We received notice today that a public meeting will be held on the permit application of Silesia Properties to discharge 500,000 gallons/day into Honey Creek (Permit No. WQ0015688001).  As you may recall, the discharge point is upstream of Honey Creek State Natural Area and Guadalupe State Park. For the official TCEQ public meeting notice, click here. 

The Public Meeting will be held on Tuesday, August 20,2019 at 7:00 p.m. at Rahe Bulverde Elementary School, 1715 East Ammann Road, Bulverde, Texas 78163

To prepare for the TCEQ Public Meeting, GEAA will host a strategy meeting to prepare for the TCEQ meeting on August 15th. Find out more here.

At the TCEQ meeting you will have the opportunity to ask questions about the permit during the first half of the meeting and to make oral comments for public record during the second half of the meeting.  Written comments may also be submitted.  As part of your comments, you may request a contested case hearing, and you may also request party standing in the contested case process.  Comments from the Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance (GEAA) and others already submitted to TCEQ can be found under the Honey Creek heading on GEAA’s Waste Water Page.  Feel free to use these as guides to writing your own comments.

Deadline for submitting comments is August 20, 2019.  You may submit written comments on-line at https://www14.tceq.texas.gov/epic/eComment/.  To submit comments on-line refer to Permit No. WQ0015688001.

or you can mail comments to: Office of the Chief Clerk, TCEQ, Mail Code MC-105, PO Box 13087, Austin, Texas 78711-3087