The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) has announced the award of $239.5 million across 11 city and county water districts. These projects will predominantly improve water systems, mitigate flooding and design flood mitigation strategies.
The city of Fort Worth will receive the largest allocation – $90 million – to conduct hydraulic and hydrologic modeling of the Lebow Channel area. Additional work will involve making improvements to 7,392 feet of the channel, including excavating 4,000 feet of the channel, building nice roadway crossings, spillway transition structure, a 40-acre detention pond and reconstructing eight culverts. The culvert components will center around building 16 headwalls, restoring streams, building access ramps at existing crossings and planting vegetation.
The city of Mineral Wells will spend $58.8 million to replace four clarifiers at its water treatment plant. The city will also evaluate a 4-mile, 24-inch raw water transmission main for potential replacement or expansion to enhance system reliability. Finally, Mineral Wells will develop an asset management plan.
Abilene will use $49 million to implement a series of water system improvements alongside the development of an asset management plan, starting with upgrading the pretreatment and filtration systems, demolishing an offline clear well and building a high-service pump station. The city also plans to improve chemical storage facilities, install a backup power system and modernize its water treatment plant’s electrical infrastructure.
The city of Cleveland will receive $16.1 million to decommission the West Wastewater Treatment Plant and enhance the East Wastewater Treatment Plant. These enhancements include building a lift station, upgrading an existing lift station and installing a junction box at the head of the plant. The city also anticipates replacing 67,000 feet of sewer lines and developing an asset management plan.
The Upper Leon River Municipal Water District will spend $11.9 million to replace the media in the conventional gravity filters, upgrade multiple components in Clarifier No. 2 and build a clearwell. In addition, the district will install a backup generator, increase the capacity of the membrane system in the existing water treatment plant and prepare an asset management plan.
Additional projects receiving financial support through the latest TWDB distribution include:
- The South Freestone County Water Supply Corporation will spend nearly $7 million to build a water well, replace 57,600 feet of water lines, upgrade its pump station and rehabilitate its pressure tank.
- Duncanville will receive $2.9 million to finish the lead service line inventory of its distribution system.
- The Paxton Water Supply Corporation will use $2.3 million to build three water well sites and install roughly 11,300 feet of water lines to connect the wells to nearby water treatment plants. In addition, the corporation will install electrical service, access roads, site fencing, an electrical generator at each well site and develop an asset management plan.
- The Study Butte Water Supply Corporation will spend $1.2 million to replace 7,550 feet of 4- and 6-inch water lines, install shutoff valves, replace and upgrade the existing Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and rehabilitate two clearwells.
- The Cameron County Drainage District No. 5 will receive nearly $362,000 to perform an internal drainage analysis for the final certification of six levees.
- Taylor Lake Village will use $98,000 to identify proposed flood mitigation measures in a study. The study will involve data collection, field surveying, storm sewer video inspection and evaluation, hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, project identification and cost-benefit analysis.
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