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Report from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) came five months after the Environmental Protection Agency also notified SpaceX that it had violated the Clean Water Act .
The violations could threaten SpaceX's ambitions to increase launches from its Starbase facility in South Texas .
SpaceX is developing Starship to transport people and equipment to the moon and, if Musk eventually realizes his grand vision, to colonize Mars .
The company didn't submit its permit application until July 1 , about 110 days later .
Environmentalist Kenneth Teague said he's especially concerned about the concentration of mercury in the wastewater from the SpaceX water deluge system.
Teague: Mercury is " one of the most serious contaminants threatening our nation's waters".
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