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You must state your distance from the site view on map

You must state your name and address

You must state either

"I am an affected Landowner" If you are within a mile radius of site
"I am an affected Party" if you are more than a mile away

You must state your distance from the sewage treatment plant or sewage discharge (whichever is closer).

Determine your Distance from: 3121 Old Granbury Rd

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Put your address in the Distance From: field
Click Calculate Distance
Record the STRAIGHT LINE DISTANCE
if you are 1.0 mile or less you are Affected Landowner
Further than 1 mile you are Affected Party

Suggestions:

Gather up your Concerns and distance information before going to site
Prepare the text you are going to use before going to the site
Create a document in PDF or word format and add pictures of activity on Rucker creek and surrounding areas.

State why, or how you are an Affected Landowner. TCEQ will automatically consider you to be an "Affected Landowner" if your home is within a 1-mile radius of the sewer plant proposed site at 3121 Old Granbury Road. If you are also a waterfront property owner on Rucker Creek, through which the effluent water will be discharged, please also state this fact, as you will be particularly impacted by the impaired surface water.
If you live outside the 1-mile radius from the facility, simply state your approximate distance (e.g.1.5 miles) from the facility. Use your own words to describe your true concerns regarding how you may be affected. Be as specific as possible about your concerns.

Instructions:

Determine your Distance from: 3121 Old Granbury Rd
- Find Distance (opens in new window)
- Put your address in the Distance From: field
- Click Calculate Distance
- Record the STRAIGHT LINE DISTANCE
- If you are 1.0 mile or less you are Affected Landowner
- Further than 1 mile you are Affected Party
Go to the TCEQ Public Comment Site at:
https://www14.tceq.texas.gov/epic/eComment/index.cfm?fuseaction=per.p3&permit_num=WQ0015821001
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You must state either:
- "I am an affected Landowner" If you are within a mile radius of site
- "I am an affected Party" if you are more than a mile away
You must state your name and address
You must state how far you live from proposed site: 3121 Old Granbury Rd
State why, or how you are an Affected Landowner.
Save a copy of your text in case the form doesn't submit properly
Submit Form
Check Email to ensure you get an email from TCEQ within 1 hour
Pray that this sewage plant doesn't get put here

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Some Concerns Others have Voiced

What measures does the City of Granbury plan to take to ensure that a nutrient build-up in the narrow, shallow cove of Rucker Creek, won't occur again? The Rucker Creek Cove was horribly impacted in the 2011-2012 Golden Algae fish kill where 250,000 fish died in the Brazos River, many on Rucker Creek.

As they say, "The solution to pollution is dilution." So, how can it possibly be healthy to discharge the sewer water through a shallow, narrow, winding creek, where it cannot be diluted or dispersed until after it has already passed through dozens of back yards (with recreational docks where children swim) before it reaches the deep, flowing main body of the Brazos River?

My children/grandchildren swim in Rucker Creek. What measures will the City of Granbury use to ensure that pharmaceuticals in the treated wastewater won't harm them when they swim there? Scientists have proven that pharmaceuticals, hormones, and prions cannot be completely removed from sewer water, no matter what technology is used to treat it. The permit application submitted to TCEQ is not clear on how the applicant will address this.

Our family uses Rucker Creek for recreational purposes—swimming, kayaking, fishing, etc. Do any of the chemicals in the treated sewer water the applicant plans to discharge in our recreational area, cause cancer or other diseases? What measures will the City of Granbury take to ensure our children and families are not at risk of cancer, gastrointestinal problems, bacterial infections, and/or other health problems from using our Rucker Creek recreational area, once 2 million gallons per day of treated sewer water are discharged down the creek? No sewer treatment can guarantee removal of all dangerous chemicals.

Will water wells which supply our drinking water be contaminated by the sewer water running down Rucker Creek, just yards from our private well? We've read studies that this possibility will definitely pose a risk to our health. The procedures in the City of Granbury's permit application do not adequately describe how they will ensure this does not occur.

What if there is a malfunction at the sewer plant (as there seems to be at many of them) and raw sewage accidentally spills into Rucker Creek, where families and children play and swim in the water? The applicant is not clear on how they will prevent this.

We moved to this neighborhood to enjoy the outdoor life this area offers. The sewer plant so close to our home will produce stinky "nuisance odors" and trigger my allergies. Our senior citizens with respiratory issues, and children will suffer most from this health and safety risk. This sewer plant location will not protect the public welfare, and will ruin our quality of life when we go outdoors.

If it smells like fecal matter, that is because there are infected droplets in the air you are breathing into your body.

I fish Rucker Creek.

I eat fish I catch near Rucker Creek.

Rucker Creek is so shallow I worry about the water not getting diffused enough to eliminate prescription drugs.

When water is released from the Possum Kingdom Rucker Creek water gets stuck in place against the current.

Flooding causes a swirl pattern that keeps water from flowing out of Rucker Creek and the bay.
There are schools directly within 1 mile of this site.
There are parks directly within 1 mile of this site.
There are 2 major food distribution locations directly in the wind path that will get contaminated droplets from the air.
There are several restaurants directly in the wind path that will get contaminated droplets from the air.
Notification of the plan to construct this plant was not adequate.
VERY FEW people knew this was even a plan, including some directly on the creek.
My kids swim in that area of the lake.
I boat Rucker Creek.
I am in the direct path of the wind pattern and it will stink.
I eat at Stumpy's and Grumps all the time and the smell will ruin the experience.

I don't want to shop in an area of town that stinks.
Prions are dangerous and they will be in a shallow creek that doesn't always flow properly.
Accidental discharge of raw sewage will impact the creek much more than the deeper parts of the lake.
Sewage water should be put directly into the deep part of the lake, not the part that dries up sometimes.
Spillage will contaminate the shallow creek and not flow out properly for long periods of time.
This is already a very well established community. There are better places to put this that won't have such a damaging effect on the community.
My customers will likely shop somewhere else that doesn't smell like sewage treatment.
My neighborhood will stink.
Property Values will go down because of the odor.
The volume of pumping will increase drastically when the existing sewage plant undergoes maintenance.
Many of those effected by this are on septic systems and will get zero benefit from this.
City is building this plant at the very edge of city limits and dumping the water and smell directly outside the city limit into county residential areas not serviced by the sewer system.
Having hormones in a creek that doesn't always flow as well as the deep lake will hurt the fish.
I am concerned that the fish kills due to algae blooms will be worse because of the treated sewage water being dumped into a shallow creek that doesn't always flow properly.
The discharge of effluent from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) has major detrimental effects on the health of aquatic ecosystems.

Several studies have shown that bacteria contained in droplets of WWTPs were 10–1000 times more than that in a water source, depending on the droplet size. (Source: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2016/8467023/)
I think the smell is more dangerous than the water.