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Sabine-Neches RC&D Area

"To utilize our diverse volunteer workforce to attain our goals"

Counties Served
  • Gregg
  • Harrison
  • Henderson
  • Panola
 
  • Smith
  • Upshur
  • Van Zandt
  • Wood
 

For Information Contact:

Sabine-Neches RC&D Area
Steve Smith, Coordinator
201 N. Collegiate Drive, Suite 500
Paris, Texas 75460
Phone: (903) 784-6679, Ext. 3
Fax: (903) 785-4899

 

 Map of Texas showing location of counties in Sabine Neches RC&D Area

Update on Supplemental Environmental Projects for Septic Tanks

Sabine-Neches RC&D is participating in the Supplemental Environmental Projects program through the TCEQ. SNRC&D received $56,125.00 for Smith County. The funds are being used to rehabilitate or replace failing waste-water treatment facilities for low-income families. To date, 12 systems have been installed. Over the past 5 years, over $300,000.00 in SEP funds have been utilized by the Sabine-Neches RC&D.

First step to install septic systems. Apparatus installed and finalizing the process. Septic systems just finished.

Sabine-Neches Septic Systems

Sabine-Neches RC&D Area volunteers, in partnership with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) and county units of government located in Upshur, Gregg, and Smith Counties in Texas, have been instrumental in improving the quality of life for residents in East Texas.

Using funds available through the Supplemental Environmental Projects Program (SEP), administered by TCEQ, RC&D volunteers, working with county officials, administered the installation of 30 approved septic systems for economically disadvantaged families. A small rural school was connected to a nearby sewer line using SEP funds also.

The program is funded by using environmental enforcement fines for community projects. Sabine-Neches RC&D Area volunteers worked with county officials to locate low-income families with failing septic systems who needed financial held in funding a suitable system.

To be eligible, a family must be at or below the 80 percent median income level for families in the county they live. Eligible families receive 100 percent of the cost of the system. To date, $250,000 has been made available for these systems in the area.

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