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RESOLUTION NO. 77-7
WHEREAS, the City of North Rich1and Hills fully supports all
reasonable efforts to clean up and maintain at the highest practicable
levels of cleanliness the Trinity River and/or other water resources; and
WHEREAS, at substantial cost, plans have been made and there is
construction already in progress to achieve highly sophisticated treatment
of wastewater and to achieve the highest level of wastewater cleanliness now
practicable (achieving or contemplated to achieve a 96% pollution removal)
by the wastewater treatment plant operators in the upper Trinity River Basin;
and
WHEREAS, an extensive regional assessment of the area sources of
water pOllution is under way by the North Central Texas Council of Governments
with recommendations for a coordinated program for cost-effective abatement of
such pollution; such recommendations anticipated to be forthcoming from that
agency sometime in 1978; and
WHEREAS, the Texas Water Quality Board hearing scheduled for May
20th and 21st of 1977, is to consider modification of wastewater effluent
limitations imposed and contemplated to be imposed within the Trinity River
Basin, so as to mitigate the otherwise substantial and widespread, adverse
economic and social impact of such existing and contemplated limitations
without unnecessary degradation of the environmental integrity of the
receiving Trinity River waters;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED
Before imposing wastewater treatment standards to achieve more than a 96%
pollution removal level upon the wastewater treatment plant operators in the
Upper Trinity River Basin, the Texas Water Quality Board is urged to:
1. Await completion of the areawide planning process now underway
by NCTCOG (scheduled to be completed in 1978).
2. Evaluate the results achieved with presently planned advanced
wastewater treatment plants, when they are completed and have
had a chance to operate, and then determine whether more ad-
vanced treatment either will be needed or is feasible.
3. Determine the cost effectiveness of more advanced treatment
requirements; that is the ratio between cost and of benefits
to be derived from more stringent treatment levels.
4. Consider, study and evaluate pollution abatement techniques
that are alternatives to merely building bigger and better
sewage treatment plants at higher and still higher costs to
the tax and rate payers.
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PASSED AND APPROVED THIS 9th day of May, 1977.
ATTEST:
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City Secretary
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
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Rex McEntire, City Attorney
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