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The Knott, Texas Saltwater Disposal Facility Explosion — What Happened, Who Is Responsible, and What Your Family Needs to Know If you are reading this page, someone you love is gone, or someone you love is in a hospital bed, and you are trying to understand how an ordinary day at a saltwater disposal facility in Howard County turned into a detonation that tore a family apart. You are probably sitting at a kitchen table in West Texas, maybe in Big Spring or somewhere in the Permian Basin, with a folder of papers you cannot bring yourself to open and a phone that has already rung once or twice from someone who sounded sympathetic and is not. We want you to know, before anything else, that what happened on September 26, 2024, at the Junction Resources facility outside Knott was not an accident in the sense that most people use that word. It was the collision of two operations that were never supposed to run at the same time, in the same place, without anyone watching over both of them. The rules that would have prevented it have existed for decades. They were not followed. And the reason they were…