Wastewater and Stormwater

HOTExecutive Director's Response to Comments on the Port of Corpus Christi Wastewater Discharge Permit
TCEQ received and responded to public comments on the draft permit number WQ0005253000. You can view or print the Response to Comments document.

For an accessible version of the Response to Comments document, please contact Kathy Humphreys, Staff Attorney, by phone at (512) 239-3417 or by email at Kathy.Humphreys@tceq.texas.gov.

Data and Records

• TCEQ Data and Records
  Environmental data and records available from the TCEQ.
• Status of Stormwater and Wastewater Applications and Specifications
  Track the status of applications for general permits, applications for individual permits, and approval of wastewater system design plans and specifications.
• Records Needed Most Often for Wastewater Investigations
  TCEQ investigators send this document to a plant that is about to undergo a wastewater investigation to ensure availability of records needed to complete the process expeditiously.
• Wastewater Permitting Annual Homeland Security Contact Information Identify your current Homeland Security contacts and provide or update information on your wastewater permit yearly.

Types of Permits and Registrations

• Stormwater Permits
• General Permits
• City and Other Municipal Permits
• Industrial Permits
• Registering Quarry and Aggregate Processing Plants
• Agricultural Operation Permits
• Sewage Sludge Permits and Regulations: Sludge Land Application to Soils
• Septic Systems Permits
• Clean Water Certification for Boat Sewage
• Aggregate Production Operations

Wastewater Treatment

• Wastewater System Design Requirements
  Design requirements for domestic wastewater-treatment systems.
• Sanitary Sewer Overflow Initiative
  If your system has an increase in the number of wastewater overflows, by participating in this program, you can protect your system’s compliance-history rating, as well as human health, safety, and the environment.
• Wastewater Pretreatment and Requirements
  Requirements for pretreating industrial wastewater discharges to publicly owned treatment works to comply with the POTW's Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit.
• Tools for Completing Permit Applications

Reusing Wastewater

• City of Austin Petition for beneficial reuse of treated wastewater
• Beneficial Reuse of Graywater
  What graywater is and how it can be beneficially reused from private residences, and commercial, industrial, institutional, and agricultural facilities.
• Requirements for Reclaimed Water
  Requirements for, and uses of, municipal (also called domestic) and industrial reclaimed water.