Pflugerville staff report progress on $500 million in utility projects including water plant expansion, 15‑mile raw water line and new wastewater plant

Pflugerville City staff briefed the Capital Improvement Advisory Committee on a semiannual update of the city’s capital improvement program, reporting roughly 61 active projects, 38 in design and 23 in construction, and noting three large utility projects amounting to about $500 million in active construction.

The report centered on three major utility efforts: the expansion of the city’s surface water treatment plant from about 17.7 million gallons per day to 30 million gallons per day; a 15‑mile secondary raw water pipeline and pump‑station project to increase raw water delivery capacity; and the Wilbarger regional wastewater treatment facility, a new Greenfield plant with 6,000,000 gallons per day capacity. Brandon Pritchett, Pflugerville’s utility director, led the presentation of the utility items.

Why it matters: the projects together increase raw water supply, treatment capacity and local wastewater treatment to support growth and to reduce reliance on distant pump and lift station configurations. City staff said the Wilbarger plant will allow gravity conveyance of wastewater that currently must be pumped over…