Consider adding a yearend donation to TRPA to your year-end giving.
As you review your budgets and consider your 2025 tax situation, reflect on organizations that drive change in areas you prioritize. Please consider a year end donation to Texas Rivers Protection Association. Our efforts are as important as ever with the continued growth in Texas. Your donations support engagement with local representatives to provide expertise and insights on alternatives to treatment plans that only achieve the maximum allowed as set by Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). There are new technologies and alternatives that significantly reduce the negative effects of treated discharge.
Most recently, as reported in the Texas Standard, TCEQ approved a controversial wastewater discharge permit for a housing development in Northwest Bexar County that could negatively impact both the Trinity Glen Rose Aquifer and the Edwards Aquifer. The Edwards Aquifer alone supports more than 2.5 million Central Texans with drinking water. This is especially unsettling as there is a less expensive option, connecting with the San Antonio Water System, yet the developer is choosing to build a treatment plant to be paid for by the future homeowners through property taxes. Making the community’s homes more expensive not only today, but long into the future. There is still a window to object to; and position alternatives for this development near Grey Forest. Read more about this situation at the Texas Standard or on the Scenic Loop-Helotes Creek Alliance websites.
Your yearend donation is essential to enable TRPA to continue to voice alternative wastewater treatment options to the housing communities being proposed in Texas. Help us advocate for safe drinking water, safe recreation and as a possible side effect, more affordable housing. Click here to donate.
