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The City of San Marcos Wastewater Treatment Plant earned national recognition as a Utility of the Future Today for Community Partnering and Engagement. San Marcos’ treatment plant is among 65 water utilities being recognized for “transformational work in community engagement, watershed stewardship and recovery of resources such as water, energy, and nutrients,” the city said. 
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San Jacinto River Authority (SJRA) announced today that the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) ranked four of its five proposed flood infrastructure projects as priorities for the 2020 Flood Infrastructure Fund (FIF) cycle, advancing SJRA one step closer to funding for the projects. With this selection, SJRA is now invited to submit full applications for the four projects to the TWDB for grant approval.
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Southlake city residents can expect to see a 2.6% increase on their water utility bill as a result of a rate increase for sewer treatment in Denton Creek and Central Wastewater Regional wastewater plants. The increase will become effective Oct. 1 and will be reflected in residents’ November bill.
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Heavy rain from Tropical Storm Beta is being blamed for a sewage spill at the city of Pearland’s Barry Rose wastewater treatment plant, and residents are being cautioned to avoid contact with nearby Clear Creek as a safety precaution. This is the third spill incident at the facility, which is near Pearland Parkway, in 16 months.
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Notice is hereby given to all interested members of the public that the Board of Directors of the San Jacinto River Authority will hold a regular publicly accessible meeting via webinar / telephone conference call pursuant to Texas Government Code, Section 551.125, as amended, and as modified by the temporary suspension of various provisions thereof effective March 16, 2020, by the Governor of Texas in accordance with the Texas Disaster Act of 1975, all as related to the Governor's proclamation on March 13, 2020, and subsequent proclamation dated June 11, 2020, certifying that the COVID-19 pandemic poses an imminent threat of disaster and declaring a state of disaster for all counties in Texas.
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In January, the City of Houston issued a Notice To Proceed (NTP) for debris removal services, specifically large silt deposits, at the confluence of the West Fork of the San Jacinto River and Lake Houston, commonly referred to as the "mouth bar." The City of Houston, through its contractor DRC Emergency Services, LLC (DRC), began mechanical dredging of the mouth bar in January. The total cost for this project is $40 million, which is funded through a combination of City of Houston Harvey Disaster dollars provided by Gov. Greg Abbott, grant dollars from the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB), and funding from the Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) Bond Program.
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Port Lavaca resident Todd Savoy went five months without receiving a water bill, then got a flurry of bills in the mail over the summer. “I started receiving bills once a week, which was odd,” Savoy wrote in a Facebook message. He’s one of more than 4,800 municipal water system customers whose billing data were lost during a Russian malware attack in February.
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Mexico owes the United States — principally Texas farmers — nearly a year's worth of Rio Grande water before a five-year deadline expires at the end of October. The dispute has left one person dead in Mexico and provoked a diplomatic clash between the two countries.
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For quite a while, the city of Abilene has pinned at least part of its hopes for future water on the proposed Cedar Ridge Reservoir. If built, it would be located about 50 miles northeast of Abilene — a 6,635-acre, 74 billion-gallon project on the Clear Fork of the Brazos that would be three times the size of Lake Fort Phantom Hill, and able to provide 50 years of water, or more.
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The city of Aledo will be seeking funding from the Texas Water Development Board to move forward in its wastewater treatment plant expansion. The Aledo city council approved a motion to authorize the pre-application process for a loan from the TWDB at Thursday’s regular meeting. In November of 2019, Freese and Nichols engineering firm was approved by the city council to perform a feasibility study on the current wastewater treatment plant.
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With over two inches of rain measured in San Antonio so far this month, the aquifer level has been on the rise. The latest ten-day rolling average is 661. 1, which is above the 660 threshold for water restrictions. However, Karen Guz, the conservation director for San Antonio Water System says stage 1 restrictions will continue.
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Hundreds of thousands of lead water pipes are still in service in Texas. One group is working to protect Texans' drinking water from toxic lead leaching from these pipes. Luke Metzger with Environment Texas joins Rebecca Thomas on FOX 7 Austin to talk about the Get the Lead Out Act, a bill to protect drinking water from toxic lead pipes in Texas.
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It’s official, tax rates are on the rise in Odessa. The Odessa City Council decided to raise multiple tax rates: property taxes as well as sewer, solid waste and water rates. The unanimous vote raises water, sewer and solid waste rates by 2.5%.
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Results from a program that’s testing Houston’s wastewater to monitor the local spread of the coronavirus have shown that it could be a faster way of detecting outbreaks in the nation’s fourth-largest city, officials said Thursday. Since May, the city and scientists from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine have tested wastewater from the city’s 39 treatment plants.
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City officials are addressing potential Town Creek drainage issues among various ongoing projects in Montgomery. Following a discussion at a previous council meeting, Chris Roznovsky with Jones and Carter said the Public Work Department inspected Town Creek and found, as previously mentioned, that it was full of debris.
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The Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas is testing wastewater samples across Austin to predict when cases of COVID-19 may be on the rise. Professor Mary Jo Kirisits is leading a small team in the Cockrell School of Engineering that’s taking samples from two of Austin’s major wastewater treatment facilities and testing them for RNA that shows the virus.
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Officials in the city of Oak Ridge North have approved moving forward with a risk and resiliency assessment of the city’s water system in order to meet federal guidelines as well as approving the 2020 property tax rate. Heather Neeley, city manager for Oak Ridge North, said the analysis of the city’s water system — which has roughly 3,200 customers between residential and commercial accounts — is required by both state and federal officials under recent changes to the America’s Water Infrastructure Act.
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More than 100,000 gallons of wastewater spilled in five locations throughout Houston Tuesday after Tropical Storm Beta produced a significant amount of rain. Houston Public Works said those who receive drinking water from the City of Houston do not need to boil their water, as it is safe from this spill. Officials are monitoring the situation and estimate the volume of wastewater released at each location is more than 100,000 gallons. Local officials and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality have been notified.
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As Tropical Storm Beta continues to meander off the Texas coast, local officials are prepared for potential flooding but as of Monday the rainfall forecast had dropped below five inches for Montgomery County. Gov. Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration for 29 counties including Harris on Monday but did not include Montgomery. In an interview with KTRK (abc13) Abbott said the area most likely to see significant rain would be the coastal area from Houston the Louisiana. He noted the state has stationed resources along the coast not know the storms exact landfall location.
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An older water tower in Denison well be getting a design change soon. This month, the City Council approved nearly $205,000 in funding for the design and survey for a new 500,000 elevated water tower near Grayson College. The new tower will replace two older towers near the FM 691 corridor, including a 1940s-era tower at North Texas Regional Airport.
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Work continues on key features of the San Pedro Creek Culture Park project through west downtown San Antonio, despite the pandemic, according to the September briefing of the park’s citizens advisory subcommittee.
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After a hiatus caused by the pandemic, RedZone Robotics will continue its inspection of City of Midland sanitary and sewer system. The asset management contractor from Philadelphia was hired by the city in 2019 to virtually inspect the sewer lines to identify flaws and faults so that improvements can be made.
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Today, City Council approved an ordinance establishing the continuation of the City’s Edwards Aquifer Protection Program with a $100 million funding commitment and an accompanying Programmatic and Finance Agreement with the Municipal Facilities Corporation to administer the program.
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The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality recently approved Arlington Water Utilities’ plan for meeting the water needs of residents in The American Dream City’s northern half – a stamp of approval that could help the City avoid millions of dollars in the cost of new infrastructure.
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If you go onto the Texas Water Development Board website you’ll find weekly updates on the water conditions in our State. The most recent map shows that less of the State is affected by the drought but we here in West Texas still need to do our part and conserve water.
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