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WHEREAS, the City of Fort Worth 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 construc-
tion 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 im-
posed 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 degrada-
tion of the environmental integrity of the receiving Trinity River waters;
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED
Before imposing wastewater treatment standards to achieve more than a 96Z1
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 of and 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.