Brazos River Authority committee hears multi-year plan, major surveys for Allen's Creek Reservoir

The Brazos River Authority's committee on Allen's Creek heard a detailed status update and contracting plan on the reservoir project, including field studies, permitting strategy and a multi-year schedule. Rachel Lane, the project’s program manager, told the committee that the work authorized by the board in March 2025 is on task and that most major milestones are complete.

"I'm the program manager for the Allens Creek Reservoir Project," Lane said, and summarized the next steps: an alternatives analysis to narrow footprints and a permitting phase that will depend on agency reviews. She emphasized that the team is building the documentation the Corps of Engineers and other agencies will need so the authority can present "a defensible" preferred alternative.

Lane described the property as roughly 9,500 acres and said early field work has identified a mix of engineering, cultural and biological constraints. She said the project has begun an extensive archaeological program under a planned Texas Antiquities permit and that the team will run "the largest survey in the state of Texas this year" to…