HomeMy WebLinkAboutTexas Water Quality Board 1971 GORDON FULCHER TEXAS WATER QUALITY BOARD JAMES U. CROSS
CHAIRMAN
J. E. PEAVY. MD
JERRY L. BROWNLEE *y'pR.,
VICE- CHAIRMAN 4w,. T� BYRON TUNNELL
LESTER CLARK � J ] 1 HUGH C. YANTIS. JR.
-~ �•• I ' ^ EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
HARRY P. BURLEIGH
PH. 475 -2651
A.C. 512
314 WEST 11TH STREET 78701
P.O. BOX 13246 CAPITOL STATION 78711
AUSTIN. TEXAS
September 30, 1971
RE: Municipal Rating
Honorable D. A. Anderson, Mayor
City of College Station
P. 0. Box 9960
College Station, Texas 77840
Dear Mayor Anderson:
The Texas Water Quality Act (Article 7621d -1, Vernon's Texas Civil
Statutes), Section 3.23, provides for the Texas Water Quality Board
to develop a numerical rating procedure to measure the effective-
ness of municipal sanitary sewerage systems. If a city's sewerage
system attains the required score, the procedure further provides
for the recognition of the city as operating a "State- Approved
Public Wastewater System." The attainment of this honor would be
made public by authorizing the city to erect signs on the highways
approaching the city noting the "State Approval" status.
Pursuant to The Texas Water Quality Act, the staff developed and
the Board approved on June 17, 1969 a numerical rating procedure.
A copy of the procedure is attached for your perusal. You will
note in examining this document that the attainment of a score suf-
ficiently high to warrant "State Approval" status requires much
more than mere .compliance with state law - -it requires a truly out-
standing sanitary sewerage system.
We would urge that your city examine its sanitary sewerage system
relative to the numerical rating procedure, and to work toward the
elimination of such deficiencies and/or omissions which exist with
the view of increasing your city's score sufficiently to warrant
recognition of your city as having a "State- Approved Public Waste-
water System." We will be glad to discuss this program with you
should you so desire.
Ve y truly yours,
Dick Whittingto fr P.E.
Director, Field Operations
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