CONROE, Texas -- A Houston company’s plan to build and operate injection wells that hold toxic waste water has run into some trouble.

The company wants to put them in Conroe.

But when residents heard that, they immediately thought about that sinkhole in Liberty County.

Jennifer Real was one of the many residents who traveled to Austin in hopes of stopping the project. “We’re  protesting to get these permits stopped now. We don’t want them to put our health before wealth.”

The company called Tex Com made the permit request. It is asking the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for permission to inject industrial waste into the ground.

Homeowners around the site say they are worried not just about their property, but their water too.

“The water, the aquifers for 54 counties, will never be the same. Once they are contaminated they are always contaminated and they can not clean them,” said Real.

The TCEQ has not approved the permit yet.

But they say that they have evidence to prove that the waste will not resurface once the industrial waste is injected 5,000 feet into the ground.

“We have demonstrated an unwavering commitment to protect the community and the environment. We are pleased that a pair of Administrative Law Judges, after hearing testimony from multiple geological and environmental experts, and after considering the arguments of all interested parties, have recommended the state approve these permits,” said Justin Keener. He's the spokesman for TexCom Gulf Disposal.

In fact, in their permit request Tex Com said, “It would simply be impossible for any injected wastewater to escape.”

But some neighbors like Jennifer Mihalic don’t buy it. “I worked in a state where they did put chemicals in old coal mines and they seeped out into the area water and their were major issues with that.”

Mihalic says the thing to do is not to mess with Texas.