In a rural section of Tarrant County west of Mansfield, residents fear a proposed wastewater treatment facility will negatively impact their health and the pastoral surroundings they’ve come to love. On top of that, there are worries the planned residential community the treatment facility would serve will contribute to unwanted population growth and congestion.
On the other side of this contentious disagreement is the developer, who said there is demand for new housing, and the wastewater facility is a safe and necessary component to facilitate growth.
But resistance has been strong enough that the case will go before a judge with the Texas State Office of Administrative Hearings this month, with residents hoping to halt approval of the wastewater permit on which the future appears to hinge.
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Developer seeking permit to send wastewater to Joe Pool Lake
In 2023, a development group under the name BL 374, LLC — now owned by Dallas-based Provident — applied for a permit from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality that would allow for the discharge of up to 490,000 gallons of treated wastewater per day from a facility on 374 acres about half a mile northeast of the intersection of Bennett Lawson Road and Gibson Cemetery Road. The property was formerly part of Fort Worth’s extraterritorial jurisdiction. It’s now in unincorporated Tarrant County after Provident petitioned to remove the land from Fort Worth’s ETJ…