AUSTIN, Texas -- The state environmental agency has voted
down a proposal to allow millions of gallons of treated sewage to
be dumped into several popular central Texas lakes.
It's a plan that angered many waterfront property owners,
elected officials, and environmentalists.
Commissioners at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality voted 3-0 Wednesday to deny a request to lift a 23-year old ban on discharges of effluent into the Highland Lakes.
TCEQ spokeswoman Andrea Morrow said Highland Lakes provides drinking water to more than a million people.
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