Facts to express about the White Stallion Waste Water Permit

Office of the Chief Clerk
Mail Code 105
TCEQ
P.O. Box 13087
Austin, TX 78711-3087
Re: Wastewater permit # WQ0004882000 White Stallion Energy Center

Wastewater permits- typically the issues are related to the water quality of the receiving waters directly downstream of discharge point.

In your individual comments to TCEQ on this permit and application, please feel free and do ask any questions and express any concerns that you have about this permit. If you do it here, the TCEQ has to respond in writing in the Response to Comment. If you don’t bring it up now (or more precisely by the close of the comment period, likely to be August 6) then it is possible the issues can’t be raised/litigated in a contested case hearing.

Here is a non-comprehensive list of issues that might be relevant to an industrial wastewater permit:

• General concerns that the water quality will be negatively impacted by the discharge.
• Concerns that the discharge will hurt the wildlife that use or live in the river.
• Concerns that the discharge will negatively impact people’s abilities to fish in the river.
• Concerns that the discharge will negatively impact the adjacent and downstream land owners’ use and enjoyment of the river.
• Concerns that the discharge will negatively impact the use and enjoyment of the river by folks that recreate in the river and downstream.
• Concerns that wastewater discharge will negatively impact the wetlands.
• Concerns that wastewater discharge is physically and improperly located in a wetland.
• Concerns that wastewater discharge facilities are improperly located in wetlands.
• Concerns that wastewater discharge will have foul odors.
• Concerns about whether toxic pollutants that will be in the wastewater have been properly identified and evaluated.
• Concerns that wastewater discharge permit does not adequately account for concentrations of heavy metal sand toxic chemicals due to coal and pet coke storage water runoff.
• Concerns that wastewater discharge permit does not adequately account for concentrations of heavy metal s and toxic chemicals due to coal and pet coke waste storage or ash landfill water runoff.
• Concerns that wastewater discharge permit does not adequately account for impacts to the water quality due to increases in temperature.
• Concerns that added temperature will harm the wildlife that live in or near the river.
• Concerns that water being used for livestock and farming purposes downstream will negatively impact the livelihood of farmers and ranchers.
• Concerns that an anti-degradation review was not done properly for fishable and swimmable water.