Opponents including two chemical companies, New Braunfels Utilities and the city of Victoria say SAWS' plans will affect their water rights.
The San Antonio Water System’s decade-long fight to control the wastewater it puts into the San Antonio River will continue, as other water users are going to court in a bid to overturn a recent decision state regulators made in
San Antonio's city-owned water utility, releases treated wastewater from its three treatment plants into creeks and rivers that flow into the San Antonio River. That water then flows toward the Gulf Coast, meets the Guadalupe River and discharges into San Antonio Bay. to dictate and control how it is used. One acre-foot is enough water to cover an acre in one foot of water, or about 326,000 gallons. The permit covers the total amount of treated wastewater that
on the issue for years. It is joined in the fight by Union Carbide, a subsidiary of Dow Chemical that uses water from the river at its Seadrift manufacturing facility making plastics and chemicals. They argue that and Union Carbide allege in the suit that they hold some of the oldest water rights in the Guadalupe River, and that
is working to fix its 21 billion-gallon water loss problem Three other opponents have also filed similar motions: New Braunfels Utilities, which provides water, sewer and power in the New Braunfels area; the city of Victoria, about 100 miles southeast of San Antonio; and the Victoria County Navigation District, a taxing district that operates the Port of Victoria.
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