Georgetown Municipal Water & Sewer outlines $23 million South sewer extension, $12.5 million south-side water tank and other county projects

Chase Azevedo, general manager of Georgetown Municipal Water & Sewer (GMWSS), gave the court a multi-topic update on water and wastewater projects that affect Scott County customers.

South sewer extension and package-plant decommissioning

Azevedo described the South Sewer Extension as one of the utility's largest projects, undertaken to retire two privately owned, failing package wastewater treatment plants that historically served mobile home communities (identified in the discussion as Spindletop/Ponderosa and Sawyer Point). He said those package plants were taken out of service in January 2024 and their flows were redirected to Georgetown Municipal's Plant 1 for treatment. Azevedo gave a current, broader project cost of roughly $23,000,000 for engineering, property and construction, up from an earlier estimate of about $7,000,000, and said the larger figure reflects additional system upgrades and work to take pump stations offline.

Azevedo explained funding came from multiple sources and low-interest KIA loan terms were used to add infrastructure upgrades that benefit existing customers. He said the project was sized to serve existing structures south of the greenbelt rather than ultimate corridor build-out, and that capacity…