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Regional water project a step closer to nish line A project to draw water from the deepest parts of Lake Travis to supply the Brushy Creek Regional Utility Authority—which serves, Cedar Park, Round Rock and Leander—has marked another step forward, with crews completing upgrades to the raw waterline along Trails End Road, according to an update from the city of Leander Feb. 5. Once completed, the BCRUA’s Raw Water Intake project will have the capacity to pump 145 million gallons of raw water from the lake per day. The project is meant to help the three cities meet future water demands by providing a stable source year-round and making each city's water supply more resilient in times of drought. The gist The deep water intake project, which began in 2022, includes the construction of a 2-mile pipe- line delivering water from intake screens to a new
Climate resilience initiative to build plan for local disasters The focus of a national initiative to build climate resilience by the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions at the local level will focus on three specic climate hazards in Central Texas. A Feb. 18 announcement states that the “triple threat” of extreme heat, wildres and ooding locally will be the center of the Climate Resilient Communities Accelerator hub. This accelerator program will be the rst through the CCES to include ooding, accord- ing to the news release. Over the next two years, the acceler- ator will convene a series of workshops to create a regional roadmap to address climate-related hazards.
Crews completed work on a 78-inch waterline along Trails End Road.
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pump station. A 78-inch raw water transmission tunnel and pipeline will move the pumped water to existing Cedar Park, Leander and BCRUA water treatment plants. The outlook Both Phase 2 and Phase 2A of the project is expected to nish by the summer of 2027. Mean- while, the organization is planning for Phase 3 of the water system, which will expand the BCRUA’s water treatment plant to have a capacity for 106 MGD per day, although a timeline for the project hasn’t been determined.
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