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  • Water supplyWho can serve the site, what capacity they have, and what it takes to connect.
  • Wastewater, including reuseSewer, an on-site plant or reuse, and which path fits the site.
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  • Every pathway: city connection, package plant, land application, 210E reuse, CCN and ETJ release, MUD
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Proof · Taylor, TX

Business park reuse after a county septic denial in Taylor, TX

The county denied the septic permit. We moved the wastewater to a state 210E reuse authorization with zero discharge, approved in 4 weeks.

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The waterline corridor through West Texas brush

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Case study · Martindale, Caldwell County, TX

Four weeks, not thirty months

A 210E reuse authorization instead of a contested discharge permit.

We engaged with MES to obtain a permit for our [Martindale] Waste Water Treatment Plant. Mike and his team were successful in securing the permit much quicker than we anticipated.

John Petersen

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  • Contested discharge permits our staff saw nearby30+ months
  • 210E authorization for a 2.0 MGD mixed-use development near Martindale, Texas4 weeks
Neighboring timelines are what our staff saw on applications near the San Marcos River.
A packaged wastewater treatment plant and its tall cream tanks on a gravel pad, with trees behind.
Packaged wastewater treatment plant, Comal County, Texas

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