exTRA by the Trinity River Authority of Texas

 After the Great June Flood of 2018, the Federal Emergency Management Agency agreed to help individual homeowners rebuild, but left local government entities out in the dark. FEMA denied public assistance to the three counties that sustained damages: Hidalgo, Cameron and Jim Wells. The denial meant that any damages caused to public infrastructure, such as roads and government-owned buildings, had to be repaired on the taxpayers’ dime — unless other funding sources were found.

The city has budgeted $1.5 million for water and sewer replacements, something city managers believe will improve the city.

The cash is on its way. Earlier this week, city commissioners voted to borrow $1.5 million through the sale of certificates of obligation to fund the planning and design phase of an $8.2 million state-mandated sewer system upgrade.

The Trinity River -- the longest river contained within a single state -- runs 710 miles from the Red River in far northern Texas down to an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico.

After decades of discussion, plans for a proposed water source called Lake Ringgold, northwest of Henrietta, are shoring up – slowly. While still 20-30 years from fruition, a coalition is rising to inform people of possibly negative consequences of the lake.

Willis residents and businesses along Texas 75 and Longstreet will soon see water and sewer service improvements following city council’s approval of a $2 million project.

The clock is ticking on the Paris wastewater treatment plant north of town off Highway 271 as efforts are underway to rehabilitate the aging facility, which dates to Camp Maxey days during World War II.

Months after a pervasive odor from biosolids swept across U.S. 380 in Bridgeport, city council members are still working to find a solution.

The Texas Water Development Board approved $42 million in financial assistance Monday to the City of Cleburne for a wastewater system expansion project.

Outage Causes Spill At Round Rock Treatment Plant - Round Rock, TX - 100,000 gallons of untreated wastewater discharged into Brushy Creek for more than an hour but drinking water supply safe, city says.

As a result of low water pressure, City of Laredo officials are advising residents to avoid using water outside.

Residents of Horseshoe Bend have been without water since Tuesday and Parker County officials as well as the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality were working Thursday to try to remedy the situation.

Houston oilfield water company Breakwater Energy Partners has launched a new midstream division amid the company's push to boost oilfield wastewater recycling in the Permian Basin.

Just 14 miles upriver lies the Liberty Hill Wastewater Treatment Facility. In the past seven years, the plant has repeatedly come under investigation after residents in Georgetown, Leander, and Cedar Park have complained that the parts of the San Gabriel flowing through their backyards—waters in which their children had once played and even been baptized—were now covered in algae, filled with foam, and stinking of chlorine and sewage.

A Robstown homeowner claims sewage water from the City's broken pipes is coming into her home.