The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality voted Wednesday to grant a contested case hearing to the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District, the Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance (GEAA) and landowner Ann Toepperwein in opposition of a wastewater permit for a plant that would serve a 2,900-home development on 1,160 acres northwest of San Antonio in an area known as Guajolote Ranch. The plant would dump an average of 1 million gallons per day — and as much as 4 million gallons daily — of treated effluent into Helotes Creek.
Read more from Lindsey Carnett with San Antonio Report here.