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Austin adopts Water Forward 2024 update; Watershed Protection seeks community input on Rain to River plan
Summary
Austin Water and Watershed Protection updated the commission on the Water Forward 2024 integrated 100-year water plan and the department's Rain to River strategic plan, outlining supply strategies, equity considerations and outreach to historically underserved communities.
Austin Water and the Watershed Protection Department briefed the Community Development Commission on recent water planning and watershed strategy work, including the Water Forward 2024 update and Rain to River, a new Watershed Protection strategic-planning process.
Marisa Flores Gonzalez, supervisor of the Water Resources team at Austin Water, summarized the Water Forward 2024 update, an integrated 100-year water-resource plan that considers conservation, nonpotable reuse, aquifer storage and recovery, potential off-channel storage (Lake Walter E. Long/Decker Lake) and emergency indirect potable reuse. "Water Forward is Austin's 100 Year integrated water resource plan," she said, noting that Council unanimously adopted the 2024 update in November 2024. Staff said the plan incorporates updated…
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