THE FOLLOWING LETTER SUBMITTED TO BAY AREA CITIZEN, MAY 20.
Subject: Clear Lake City is in danger
The Clear Lake City Water Authority wants to dump up to 10 million gallons a day of treated sewage effluent into Clear Lake City. Did you know? Remember, the Clear Lake City Water Authority promised us a park on the old Clear Lake Golf Course . Now it is a storm water detention facility. Remember how they frightened people with fear of flooding even though the Harris County Flood Control District said there was no flood danger. Remember, they told us that we had the lowest water rates in the area and then hit us with a 45% increase. Now, the Clear Lake Water Authority has very quietly filed an application to dump up to 10 million gallons per day of treated sewage (the black and grey toilet stuff) effluent in the center of Clear Lake City on the old golf course. Contact the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality(TCEQ) and ask about the Clear Lake, Robert T. Savely Water Reclamation Facility permit number WQ0010539001 or go to the TCEQ website http://www.tceq.texas.gov/ for additional information. Contact our State Representative, John Davis, our State Senator, Larry Taylor, and your community association representatives. Ask for a TCEQ directed public meeting.
Our community is in danger. Who will want to live next to or near a treated sewage detention facility outfall? Who will want their children attending an elementary school less than 650 feet from a treated sewage effluent pond? Or have their children attend a middle school just one block from a river of effluent or go to a high school sitting a few hundred feet from the effluent channel? There are so many other nice and much safer places to live. If the CLCWA is allowed to dump this effluent into our community, our property values will plummet. People will choose other places to live, work and do business. People will not flock to kayak on a bulldozed, treeless river of treated sewage effluent when there are so many natural, scenic rivers nearby. People will not look at Clear Lake as a gateway to NASA. They will see it as a gateway to the Robert T. Savely sewage treatment facility. This is not how I want Clear Lake to be known. Treated sewage effluent does not belong in Clear Lake City. We must stop the Water Authority plan! Contact your elected officials today!
Carole Henning
Friends of the Old Golf Course
Clear Lake 77062
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Subject: Clear Lake City is in danger
The Clear Lake City Water Authority wants to dump up to 10 million gallons a day of treated sewage effluent into Clear Lake City. Did you know? Remember, the Clear Lake City Water Authority promised us a park on the old Clear Lake Golf Course . Now it is a storm water detention facility. Remember how they frightened people with fear of flooding even though the Harris County Flood Control District said there was no flood danger. Remember, they told us that we had the lowest water rates in the area and then hit us with a 45% increase. Now, the Clear Lake Water Authority has very quietly filed an application to dump up to 10 million gallons per day of treated sewage (the black and grey toilet stuff) effluent in the center of Clear Lake City on the old golf course. Contact the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality(TCEQ) and ask about the Clear Lake, Robert T. Savely Water Reclamation Facility permit number WQ0010539001 or go to the TCEQ website http://www.tceq.texas.gov/ for additional information. Contact our State Representative, John Davis, our State Senator, Larry Taylor, and your community association representatives. Ask for a TCEQ directed public meeting.
Our community is in danger. Who will want to live next to or near a treated sewage detention facility outfall? Who will want their children attending an elementary school less than 650 feet from a treated sewage effluent pond? Or have their children attend a middle school just one block from a river of effluent or go to a high school sitting a few hundred feet from the effluent channel? There are so many other nice and much safer places to live. If the CLCWA is allowed to dump this effluent into our community, our property values will plummet. People will choose other places to live, work and do business. People will not flock to kayak on a bulldozed, treeless river of treated sewage effluent when there are so many natural, scenic rivers nearby. People will not look at Clear Lake as a gateway to NASA. They will see it as a gateway to the Robert T. Savely sewage treatment facility. This is not how I want Clear Lake to be known. Treated sewage effluent does not belong in Clear Lake City. We must stop the Water Authority plan! Contact your elected officials today!
Carole Henning
Friends of the Old Golf Course
Clear Lake 77062
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