This is going to be great for the tubing business in New Braunfels.
TLDR: Permit is nearing approval, no definite plans, yet, to build the plant.
https://www.expressnews.com/hill-country/article/wastewater-plant-comal-river-new-braunfels-19760675.php
Plant that would put treated sewage into Comal River moves closer to approval
The proposed facility would release up to 600,000 gallons of treated sewage per day into a creek that feeds the Comal River.
State regulators have moved a step closer to approving a wastewater treatment plant that could eventually release up to 600,000 gallons of treated sewage per day into a creek that feeds the Comal River.
The plant intends to serve a potential 1,400-home subdivision between Bulverde and New Braunfels in Comal County.
In a letter last week, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality told Comal County landowner Douglas Harrison that the agency’s executive director determined the application met the state's legal requirements. That clears the way for the decision to be considered by TCEQ commissioners and gives opponents until Oct. 7 to request a contested case hearing or ask for reconsideration of the decision.
Harrison applied for the permit in September 2022, seeking permission for a plant that would eventually discharge a daily average of up to 600,000 gallons of treated wastewater per day into the West Fork Dry Comal Creek. According to the application, the effluent would then travel through the Dry Comal Creek, then into the Comal River, the popular tubing destination that flows through downtown New Braunfels.
The creek flows into the Comal River near Landa Street and the Wurstfest grounds. The Comal River’s current uses are primary contact recreation, public water supply, aquifer protection and high aquatic life use, according to the TCEQ. The state agency has determined those uses “will not be impaired” by the new wastewater plant.
Harrison previously told the Express-News he had no immediate plans to develop the property and was preparing for different potential uses of the land.
“We’re just getting everything in order and trying to get everything lined up here for what our options are,” he said in 2022. “Just in case we decide to sell someday down the road.”
However, the treatment plant application said the facility “will serve the Harrison Tract subdivision, a new 1,403 lot subdivision,” and is intended to also serve other “future regional developments.”