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GBRA outlines $5.9 billion "Water Secure" plan; Fair Oaks Ranch weighs participation
Summary
GBRA and Fair Oaks Ranch staff briefed council July 17 on a regional "Water Secure" project that would build a treatment plant, an off-channel reservoir, aquifer storage and roughly 250 miles of pipeline to deliver surface water; GBRA seeks nonbinding MOUs from utilities.
At a workshop July 17, the Guadalupe Blanco River Authority (GBRA) and city staff briefed Fair Oaks Ranch council on a regional "Water Secure" project that would develop large-scale surface-water infrastructure to serve multiple utilities across the region. GBRA seeks nonbinding memoranda of understanding (MOUs) from interested utilities as it advances planning and funding work.
GBRA deputy engineering manager Brian Perkins described the concept as a regional supply program that would use GBRA's Lower Guadalupe River surface-water rights, an off-channel reservoir, a large water-treatment plant, an aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) system and long transmission pipelines. "We landed on about a 90,000,000-gallon a day project," Perkins said in the presentation. Perkins and the consultants estimated capital costs for the project at about $5.9 billion and said the program could require roughly 250 miles of pipeline.
City staff framed the local question: current city water supply is a mix of city-owned potable wells and purchases from GBRA. Grant…
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