The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) will distribute $1.2 billion to support water and wastewater system, supply and quality protection projects across the state.
The North Texas Municipal Water District will receive $370.8 million to improve the region’s water system infrastructure. The district will build the Leonard Treated Water Pipeline No. 2, which will include a 25-mile-long, 84-inch diameter pipeline next to the existing No. 1 pipeline.
The city of Georgetown will spend $274 million to build water treatment and pumping facilities at two locations, alongside associated transmission infrastructure to transport the treated water into the local drinking water distribution system.
The first location – the East Intake Site – will feature a disinfection treatment system, two ground storage tanks, three high-service pumps and electrical and administrative facilities. The second facility – the County Road 141 Distribution Facility – will include two ground storage tanks, three high-service pumps and associated support facilities.
The Riverbend Water Resources District will use $248.8 million to build a raw water intake on Wright Patman Lake, a raw water pump station and transmission pipeline and a 25-million-gallon-per-day (mgd) water treatment plant. Additional work will include decommissioning the New Boston Road Water Treatment Plant and raw water conveyance system.
The Alliance Regional Water Authority and the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority will receive $75 million and $35 million, respectively, to continue expanding the Carrizo Water Treatment Plant, working toward a final design capacity of 38.19 mgd. The project will include adding pretreatment and solids handling capable of managing lagoons, process equipment buildings, access roads, lighting, yard piping and plant appurtenances.
The Tarrant Regional Water District will use $55 million to build an in-channel impoundment, intake and pump station along Mary’s Creek. The channel dam will divert return flows from the creek and transfer them to a connection pipeline north of the district’s Eagle Mountain balancing reservoir. The pipeline will be discharged to Eagle Mountain Lake.
The city of Dripping Springs will receive $51.5 million to expand its water reclamation facility, taking it from a capacity of 0.31 mgd to 0.82 mgd. The project will build one lift station, approximately 19,035-feet of 20-inch to 36-inch force main, headworks, a solids handling system and sludge handling and dewatering facilities.
The project also calls for building secondary treatment, chemical feed systems, an electrical building, an ultraviolet disinfection structure, an effluent holding pond and roughly 4,900 feet of treated effluent lines. In addition to decommissioning the existing temporary wastewater treatment plant, the district will develop an asset management plan and submit an application to amend the existing Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit.
The TWDB will provide the San Patricio Municipal Water District with $32 million to build around 49,500 feet of 48-inch raw water transmission pipeline from an existing blending station to the 200-million-gallon Naismith Reservoir. The project will include open-cut trenching, installing concrete-steel-cylinder pipe or steel pipe and multiple bores across several road crossings. Plans also include installing above ground piping and fittings to the connect to the blending station and an outfall piping structure at the existing raw water reservoir.
Comal County will receive $30 million to buy property within the recharge and contributing zones of aquifers, watersheds and creeks to mitigate non-point source pollution and maintain the spring flows that feed these bodies of water.
The city of Beaumont will spend $5.1 million to complete a lead service line inventory of around 34,770 residential water service line connections.
Richland Springs will use $4.4 million to use granular activated carbon pressure filtering to address per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in its wastewater treatment plant and the collection system. The project will include building high-service pumps, 60,000 feet of 6-inch to 10-inch PVC sewer lines, upgraded pumps at the city’s pump station and additional membranes as the wastewater treatment plant.
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