AUSTIN -- The state environmental agency has voted down a proposal to allow millions of gallons of treated sewage to be dumped into several popular central Texas lakes.
It's a plan that angered many waterfront property owners, elected officials and environmentalists.
Commissioners at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality voted 3-0 Wednesday to deny a request to lift a 23-year-old ban on discharges of effluent into the Highland Lakes.
TCEQ spokeswoman Andrea Morrow says Highland Lakes provides drinking water to more than a million people.
