Please join us at 7 pm on Tuesday, December 4th, 2018 at the South Houston Community Center for a public meeting regarding South Houston’s request to remove limits on Mercury dumping into our waters. We need to show up to voice disapproval of allowing environmental recklessness, and see how exactly they explain that “removal of the total mercury effluent limits” will not open up our waters to negative impacts (their review has “preliminarily determined that existing water quality uses will not be impaired by this permit action”).
Waters affected: Berry Bayou; thence to Sims Bayou; thence to
Houston Ship Channel/Buffalo Bayou Tidal in Segment No. 1007 of the San Jacinto River Basin
The following is the text of the permit:
TCEQ public meeting regarding TPDES permit No. WQ0010287001:
City of South Houston, P.O. Box 238, South Houston, Texas 77587, has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for a major amendment to Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (TPDES) Permit No. WQ00102870001 to authorize the removal of the total mercury effluent limits. TCEQ received this application on November 7, 2017.
The facility is located at 206 Michigan Street, in the City of South Houston, Harris County, Texas 77587. The treated effluent is discharged to Berry Bayou; thence to Sims Bayou; thence to
Houston Ship Channel/Buffalo Bayou Tidal in Segment No. 1007 of the San Jacinto River Basin. The unclassified receiving water use is limited aquatic life use for Berry Bayou (above tidal). The designated uses for Segment No. 1007 are industrial water supply and navigation. In accordance with 30 Texas Administrative Code Section 307.5 and the TCEQ Procedures to Implement the
Texas Surface Water Quality Standards (June 2010) for the Texas Surface Water Quality Standards, an antidegradation review of the receiving waters was performed. A Tier 1 antidegradation review has preliminarily determined that existing water quality uses will not be impaired by this permit action. Numerical and narrative criteria to protect existing uses will be maintained. A Tier 2 review is not required since no exceptional, high, or intermediate aquatic
life use water bodies have been identified in the discharge route. Existing uses will be maintained and protected. The preliminary determination can be reexamined and may be modified if new information is received. This link to an electronic map of the site or facility’s general location is provided as a public courtesy and is not part of the application or notice. For the exact location, refer to the application. http://www.tceq.texas.gov/
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