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Houston will provide sanitary sewer services to Bellaire for the next 100 years in exchange for the Ruffino Hills tract in Bellaire. The agreement also transfers three tracts of land to Bellaire and gives the city a $5.4 million credit for wastewater impact fees. 
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Cameron County Commissioners’ Court recently approved a contract of over $1.5 million for wastewater system improvements in Brownsville’s Saldivar colonia. The colonia, which sits east of the Brownsville South Padre Island International Airport, does not have sewer line connections to systems to the Brownsville Public Utilities Board.
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The Corpus Christi City Council authorized staff to negotiate a water sale agreement with Aquatech for up to 14 million gallons of water per day. The proposal could eventually provide the city with up to 14 million gallons of water per day. The water would be produced and treated at the existing CC Polymer seawater desalination plant.
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The cities of Round Rock and Georgetown entered into a water treatment and transmission agreement several years ago, with Round Rock treating up to 3 million gallons of raw water per day from Lake Georgetown because of the extra treatment capacity at Round Rock’s plant. Round Rock’s water treatment plant has the capacity to treat 52 million gallons per day. With the agreement now expired, Georgetown asked Round Rock to renew the deal.
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With populations rising in Prosper and Celina, local officials and the Upper Trinity Regional Water District are expanding water infrastructure to meet growing demands. In 2024, both municipalities agreed to fund a $269 million expansion of the Doe Branch Water Reclamation Plant, which serves both communities.
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The Lacy Lakeview City Council heard a proposal to recycle wastewater through a sewer mining system as concerns grow over water usage for a planned data center.
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Officials in Three Rivers, the tiny town of 1,800 people that’s located along U.S. 281 about 70 miles northwest of Corpus Christi, issued a news release on Monday, March 23, to announce that the town is under imminent threat of being unable to access its primary water source, Choke Canyon Reservoir. That’s because Corpus Christi water officials will soon release water from Choke Canyon into Lake Corpus Christi — something that had not been accounted for under previous water supply projections.
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Detectives said the Cypress company, which power washes dump-truck engines, was dumping contaminated wastewater into a drainage ditch that eventually leads all the way to the Gulf.
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City leaders say the water being pumped from deep underground may be hundreds of millions of years old as Corpus Christi races to stretch its shrinking supply.
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As the region moves into the warmer months and lake levels continue to drop, the water crisis remains at the forefront for the county and surrounding communities. Lake levels at Choke Canyon Reservoir, Lake Corpus Christi are at historic lows, and Lake Texana is showing a serious decline. Adding to the dismal outlook, meteorologists predict no significant rainfall over the next three months.
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Bastrop city officials say Wastewater Treatment Plant No. 3 will soon become obsolete, as the facility needs retrofitting to meet the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s new phosphorus level readings and discharge into the Colorado River requirements.
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Leaders gathered Friday to celebrate another $1 million in federal funding that will help Waco on its way toward an estimated $57.7 million project to make treated wastewater available for irrigation or industrial uses that now consume drinking water. The Flat Creek Water Reuse project would supply treated effluent from the Central Wastewater Treatment Plant, along the Brazos River just south of town, to Texas Central Industrial Park.
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Portland officials are exploring desalination and new water sources as growth and looming curtailment raise concerns across the Coastal Bend.
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The spill was located in southeast Midland near the intersection of North Lamesa Road and Mulberry Lane, north of De Zavala Elementary School. A pipe break caused wastewater to be discharged from the sanitary sewer system and flow into the area's drainage draw, which flows southeast toward North Calhoun Street. In total, about 125,000 gallons of wastewater spilled over the three-hour period.
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Tension is growing between Three Rivers and Corpus Christi over water access from the Choke Canyon Reservoir as officials plan to meet.
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During its March 17 meeting, the Poteet City Council approved entering into an agreement with the Nueces River Authority to help secure a long-term water supply for the city. Travis Pruski, chief operating officer of the Nueces River Authority, presented details on regional water challenges and outlined plans for a large-scale desalination project near Harbor Island in South Texas.
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Sarah Ortbal's work addresses PFAS at multiple critical points — wastewater treatment, surface waters, and targeted remediation — using both targeted PFAS methods and adsorbable organic fluorine (AOF) to reveal the broader fluorinated organic load that traditional methods can miss.
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A wastewater treatment facility in West El Paso spilled enough wastewater to fill an Olympic-sized pool and some got into the Rio Grande. According to El Paso Water, around 670,000 gallons of wastewater were spilled from the John T. Hickerson Treatment Plant, located at 701 Executive Center Blvd. near the Rio Grande River and the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Mayor Doug Weiss now projects Lake Pflugerville will be back up to an elevation of 633 feet by May 1 at current conservation levels.
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Lake McQueeney and Lake Placid are coming back. The two lakes on the Guadalupe River, which were created a century ago by damming the river east of New Braunfels, have sat nearly empty for years, with little river flow across the mostly exposed lake beds.
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From drilling groundwater wells to recycling wastewater, Corpus Christi has launched a host of projects as it races against the clock to find more water.
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Rapid population growth and ongoing drought have made water a big-ticket commodity, forcing the Texas legislature to work to protect the vital natural resource for state residents. State Rep. Cody Harris, a Republican from Palestine, is chair of the Texas House Natural Resources Committee. He has a front row seat to many of the water battles and water needs occurring across the state.
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Corpus Christi partners with CPS Energy for large-scale desalination project — Corpus Christi is exploring a desalination project with CPS Energy, aiming to convert a coastal power plant into a major new water supply source.
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If erosion continued, it could seriously disrupt wastewater service for more than 300,000 residents in Waco and Robinson.
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More than 50 years after The Woodlands’ founding in 1974, plans to upgrade or replace parts of the community’s water infrastructure are underway, but officials said recent findings have led them to consider eliminating or delaying several projects, while others could be phased in over several years.
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