Legal Battle Between Water District And Fort Worth Could Continue Through End Of Summer

Arlington TX

06 March, 2022

5:53 PM

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By Haley Samsel, Fort Worth Report March 5, 2022 The Tarrant Regional Water District is one step closer to successfully challenging the city of Fort Worth's proposed sewage treatment plant at Mary's Creek near Aledo. After a lengthy hearing Feb. 28, Judge Christiaan Siano, who serves in the State Office of Administrative Hearings, said the water district was an "affected person" – a legal term meaning directly impacted – when it comes to Fort Worth's application to discharge up to 15 million gallons of treated wastewater per day into a creek that feeds into the Trinity River. The water district "has demonstrated that it has a personal, justifiable interest which is not common to members of the public in general," Siano told the attorneys and observers watching the hearing on Zoom. That means the water district qualifies for a contested case hearing from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, which is similar to a civil trial in state district court and can take several months to resolve. To read the full article, click here. Fort Worth Report is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that produces factual, in-depth journalism about city and county government, schools, healthcare, business, and arts and culture in Tarrant County. Always free to read; subscribe to newsletters, read coverage or support our newsroom at fortworthreport.org.