The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) will deliver $163.1 million to support water, wastewater and flood mitigation projects across the state.
The city of Fort Worth will receive $60 million to build a 10 million-gallon-per-day (mgd) membrane bioreactor water reclamation facility. The project calls for building basins, bioreactors for biological nutrient removal, membrane tanks and electrical systems. Additional work will include building dewatering and membrane equipment buildings, an ultraviolet disinfection structure, an aeration system, an outfall structure, aerated storage tanks and generators.
Another $60 million will allow the city of Round Rock to expand the Brushy Creek East Wastewater Treatment Plant. Once finished, the facility’s capacity will be increased from 30 mgd to 40 mgd. The project will build additional pumps, new basins and final clarifiers, ultraviolet disinfection, a dewatering building, sludge pump station and an electrical building.
The TWDB will deliver $35.6 million to the city of Irving to improve 4,900 feet of upstream channel improvements. These will include lowering the channel flowline, installing a concrete-lined bottom and building vertical modular block walls to improve conveyance capacity. Additional work calls for replacing undersized culverts and lowering existing utility crossings.
Th East Rio Hondo Water Supply Corporation will spend $4.3 million to improve its sludge basins, addressing polyfluoroalkyl (PFA) substances found at the Simpson Water Treatment Plant. The project will include replacing the gravity sludge thickener, lining the existing sludge basins with composite liner and removing and relocating the in-situ soil and sludge along the bottom and side slopes of the basins to the sludge disposal site.
The city of Jefferson will use $3 million to rehabilitate lift stations and replace 16,000 feet of sewer lines and 29 manholes. Plans include replacing pumps, motors, electrical systems, metal building enclosures at four lift stations and installing a new supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system.
The remaining $142,857 will allow the Morton Valley Water Supply Corporation to inventory all its 290 connections.
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