Trinity River Sewage Water

A Texas Tribune story about the Trinity River made the New York Times a few weeks ago.  Too bad Texans aren't listening.

Thank goodness the Watchdog was.

Next time Granger and Company - the Trinity River Vision Authority, City of Fort Worth, the Tarrant Regional Water District, the 7th Street gang, tells you to come on down and tube the Trinity River, you might want to remember this...

The state has a number of projects that send treated sewage water back into major water systems, albeit somewhat less directly. One of the newer ones is in the Tarrant Regional Water District, which serves Fort Worth, Arlington and a few other cities. The project, in operation since 2009, sends some water from the Trinity River (which is highly polluted, due partly to discharges from wastewater-producing plants, including Fort Worth’s) through a specially constructed wetland area and into a reservoir, where it will be reused in the water system. That project is set to expand over the coming decade.

You might also notice, the above mentioned tend to stay on the banks on the river.