The city of Alamo will move into the next stage of a water system improvement project after receiving $9.3 million in financing and principal forgiveness from the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB).
The project will rehabilitate Alamo’s five-million-gallon-per-day water treatment plant. Although a firm timeline hasn’t yet been released, the city will now be able to move forward with planning, design and construction efforts.
Major improvement details for the plant will include upgrading treatment components, automated controls, pumping systems and electrical and mechanical components. In addition, the city will replace chemical feed and ventilation equipment, install level sensors at elevated tanks and integrate all facilities into the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system.
The finished project will empower the city to produce and treat groundwater, pumping up underground water sources through wells. The plant’s reverse osmosis system will then treat the groundwater, making it potable and introducing it to the city’s drinking water supply.
Funding in tow, the city will now move forward with conducting feasibility, environmental and engineering studies. Completing these stages will enable Alamo to then design and build the project itself.
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