The Texas General Land Office (GLO) has approved another $45 million to supplement critical regional mitigation efforts across the state. The funding will enable two counties and four municipalities to execute water and roadway infrastructure improvements.
Nueces County will receive the largest portion of the funding, totaling $31.3 million, to improve local sewer, drainage and water infrastructure. Once completed, the capacity of drainage systems will be larger, sewer systems will be reinforced and water systems will be more effective.
Work within Nueces County will consist of excavating land, building detention ponds, regrading ditches and installing riprap, loading pads and drainage structures. The county will also reconstruct driveways, pavement and sidewalks, relocate utilities, install waterlines and fire hydrants and upgrade water tanks and associated pumps.
Additional efforts in Nueces County will improve a wastewater treatment plant in Banquete. Plans include improving the plant’s lift stations, bar screen, oxidation ditch, clarifiers, electrical control room and sludge drying beds. The county will repair pipes, install waterlines and manholes, reconnect services and restore pavement as part of the project.
Missouri City will receive $5.1 million for drainage improvements, enhancing overall flow and detention capacity at two locations. The city will remove manholes, install junction boxes and headwalls and replace pipes, inlets and pavement at the first location. The second will have its ditches cleaned and regraded, inlets and pipes installed and culverts and pavement replaced.
Another $4.8 million will be allocated to Fayette County, enabling it to focus on improvements to its sewer, drainage and communication systems across multiple cities. Plans include building a treatment plant with a headworks collection system, manholes, bar screen, sludge dewatering system, clarifier, contact basins and a replacement lift station. Additional work will include building conveyance channels, installing berms and driveway culverts and deploying radio communications equipment.
GLO will award the remaining grants to the following municipalities:
- The City of Seguin will receive $2.1 million to excavate a detention basin and install dams and erosion control measures.
- Patton Village will spend $1.3 million to remove and replace a roadway, rehabilitate a ditch and install culverts.
- Bryan will use $500,000 to install water lines, fire hydrants and service connections. The city will also remove and replace sewer lines, roadways, sidewalks, curbs and gutters.
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