TCEQ News Release-Public meeting on water quality in Trinity River

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The TCEQ hosts a public meeting on water quality in the greater Trinity River region
Public comment is needed on a proposed implementation plan

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday July 18, 2013

 

Contact:  Andrea Morrow
Phone:  512-239-5011 Pager:  512-896-3727

 

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is hosting a public meeting to solicit  public comment on a draft Implementation Plan to improve water quality in the Trinity River. The plan outlines activities to achieve water quality goals set forth in plans, known as Total Maximum Daily Loads. The Implementation Plan proposes ways to lower levels of bacteria in the Greater Trinity River Region in Dallas and Tarrant counties, to bring the watershed into compliance with state and federal standards.  The comment meeting is open to the public and is scheduled for July 25, 2013, at 6:30 p.m., in the Regional Forum Room at the North Central Texas Council of Governments (Centerpoint II building) offices at 616 Six Flags Drive, Arlington, Texas 76011.

 

At this meeting, individuals have the opportunity to present oral statements. Written comments should be submitted to Dania Grundmann, Water Quality Planning Division, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, MC 203, P. O. Box 13087, Austin, Texas, 78711-3087 or faxed to (512) 239-1414. Comments may be submitted electronically to www5.tceq. texas.gov/rules/ecomments by midnight on August 2, 2013, and should reference the Implementation Plan for Seventeen Total Maximum Daily Loads for Bacteria in the Greater Trinity River Region.

 

The draft Implementation Plan can be viewed on the TCEQ website [http://www.tceq.texas.gov/assets/public/waterquality/tmdl/66trinitybact/66C_TrinityI-Plan_PublicCommentDraft.pdf].

 

Persons with disabilities who have special communication or other accommodation needs who are planning to attend the meeting should contact the commission at 512-239-6682. Requests should be made as far in advance as possible.

 

 

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