TEXAS LAW - LAX TO THE MAX

My latest info on Mountain Creek Lake and Cottonwood Bay at Dallas NWIRP from EPA:

Texas law allows for the toxic groundwater at the Dallas Naval Air Station/Naval Weapons Installation (which was supposed to be CLEANED UP) to be monitored, and no movement is being made toward clean up. There's no comment on screening off the toxic bay with a fence; and Texas law permits water to flow from the bay into a creek (accessible to children) if chemical concentrations are of a "low enough level." All the environmental lack of action is state-sanctioned.
How could that happen at a Superfund site? The damage is reclassified and allowable levels of dangerous chemicals are raised! People, this means if you can't or don't want to do an expensive water clean-up, you adjust the numbers and ratings in the system.

It's all about Texas law; and Texas law is asleep, inert, has no teeth, lax to the max when it comes to water and air.
I'd not consider "acceptable levels" of volatile organic compounds - solvents and fuel - acceptable for my kids, if I had anything to say about it. Oh, yeah, I don't! This is infuriating, parents. We should at least be given clear info and recent testing results. (Yes, I know, testing wasn't done recently but rather in 2001. When asked about more recent results, EPA has none,
but believes things are better than in 2001 - at least in Mountain Creek Lake.)
So why am I upset? My feared after school or week-end scenario: A child plays in the Cottonwood creek and has VOC contact. Then he plays in the creek a block away, getting into the TCE plume down 20 ft below the road. What a great Saturday in Grand Prairie! Chemical exposure may not be perilously dangerous, but do we really know?
My concern is that kids - no matter their parents' level of education or involvement - are safe outdoors and that laws protect citizens, and not just the Navy.

Let me conclude by sharing today's sad lesson. Comments about Texas's weak, powerless environmental law appear true. Generally speaking, Texans'
hope of authentic protection has evaporated into the smoky, stinking air and sunk to the bottom of the pond along with radioactive sediments.*
Where is our new Region 6 EPA director? I hope to hear his viewpoints soon.

*Driving home down Beltline and Luna in Coppell and Carrollton, I saw three industrial sites bellowing thick black smoke into the air. One seemed to be a small cement facility; another was a rock foundry; then a cedar company. Two were along the narrow, semi-dry Trinity River running along Beltline and one was practically beside I 35 on Luna Rd. An overcast day+road exhaust+these burners expelling = dark, smelly misery. This looked so nasty that I couldn't believe I was in the US! What was in that smoke, EPA? Do you know?