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Board authorizes $27.2 million professional services contract for Belton'to'Stillhouse pipeline project
Summary
The Brazos River Authority authorized up to $27.225 million to hire Walker Partners for design, permitting, right-of-way and bid-phase services for a pump station and 7-mile pipeline to transfer water from Belton Lake to Stillhouse Hollow Lake.
The Brazos River Authority Board of Directors on Jan. 27 authorized the general manager and CEO to negotiate and execute a professional services contract with Walker Partners LLC for permitting, engineering, design, property-rights acquisition, and bid-phase services for a raw-water pump station at Belton Lake, a roughly 7-mile transfer pipeline and an outlet/discharge structure at Stillhouse Hollow Lake. The board approved authorization up to $27,225,300 for the work needed to advance the Belton-to-Stillhouse ("Bell House Drought Preparedness") project through design and permitting.
Brad Brunette, chief operations officer, and Walker Partners project manager Aaron Archer summarized the project's history and scope. The project responds to water supply commitments the authority made in the mid-2000s and to subsequent regional planning: pre-existing contracts and demand growth at…
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