Terra Renewal Services, Inc., of Russellville, Arkansas has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for a proposed beneficial land use permit to authorize the land application of wastewater treatment plant sludge and water treatment sludge for beneficial use on approximately 621.5 acres. The site is located at the intersection of Hamrock Road and Joe’s Road, approximately 1.1 miles south of the intersection of Hamrock Road and Hooser Road, approximately 1.5 miles west of the intersection of Hooser Road and Farm-to-Market Road 667, approximately 4.5 miles south of Italy, in Ellis and Navarro Counties.

For more information on the application and its process please see the proposed permit.

Comment from John Droll, 4/20/11-12:51pm

In the event this permit is granted, which they usually are, the City and County need to ensure that the trucks that are hauling this material do not use Ward Street, or any other city street, to access this site. There are closer routes to the site via 667.

Comment 4/21/11-10:40am

This is what is called “bio-solids”, and it stinks. The smell is horrible when it is spread out and worse when the first rain hits it.Ellis County has become a dumping ground for Dallas, Tarrant, and other counties. Think about what goes through the sewers of some of the large cities in those counties( toxic chemicals, dangerous metals, mercury). TCEQ will tell you that what is spread out on the ground is safe, that it could be bagged up and sold at any lawn and garden store. Don’t believe them. The companies spreading this stuff out have guidelines regarding how much per acre, how often it can be be done, along with offsets from creeks, streams, ponds, and lakes, which they rarely follow. This land that the waste is spread out on is supposed to lay fallow for a certain amount of time, that means no grazing or baling hay. But it rarely does. Eventually you or I are going to eat that hamburger, that came from that cow, that ate that grass or hay. Or how about that fish that was in the pond that the run-off from this stuff flowed into. Do your research into this stuff. Call your commissioner. Don’t let it happen.