The proposed Guajolote Ranch subdivision has people worried that the wastewater plant would degrade the quality of their water.
HELOTES, Texas — The state will decide if Lennar Homes can get obtain a permit to build a wastewater plant on the northwest side for the Guajolote Ranch subdivision.
The problem about this area is that the plant would be in the Helotes Creek watershed that feeds into the Edwards Aquifer and it’s continued to see a large pushback.
2.5 million people rely on the Edwards Aquifer for drinking water. The proposed Guajolote Ranch subdivision has people worried that the wastewater plant would degrade the quality of their water.
The Guajolote Ranch subdivision takes up more than 1,100 acres between Scenic Loop and Babcock Road.
Lennar Homes wants to build 2,900 new homes, but they would also have to build a wastewater plant.
If built, one million gallons of wastewater would flow into Helotes Creek every day.
Last month, San Antonio councilwoman Marina Alderete Gavito urged the San antonio Water System and Edwards Aquifer Authority to take a formal position on the wastewater plant.
In Februarys hearing, the argument was over what the Texas Commission on environmental quality does and doesn’t control, for Lennar to make the plant.
The Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance says the treatment plant would hurt the ecosystem and contaminate the water quality to make it undrinkable.
The alliance recommended using septic tanks as an alternative.
Lennar’s attorneys countered saying a plant was more environmentally friendly than septic systems.
Wednesday’s meeting is going to be held in Austin at 9:30 a.m.
We’re told more than 50 residents are expected to attend.