BY ANNA MANESS
Projecting growth As the Liberty Hill area grows, the number of living unit equivalents, the measurement used to define the typical flow of wastewater produced by one home, also grows.
What to expect
What’s being done
Liberty Hill is not the only Central Texas city dealing with wastewater capacity issues as its population grows. In 2019, the TCEQ granted the city of Dripping Springs a permit to expand its wastewater services, but the permit was challenged in court by the Save Our Springs Alliance. As that case progressed, the city entered a development moratorium—or a halt on new construction—from Nov. 18, 2021, to Sept. 18, 2022. While the moratorium has ended, the city is still searching for solutions as the case is pending before the Texas Supreme Court. In May, the city of Bastrop announced its new $32.6 million wastewater treatment plant was online. However, further expansion plans, which were held up in court for years, have now been greenlighted. Due to the plans’ lengthy postpone- ment, the city is going back to the drawing board to increase their scope. And on the outskirts of Hutto and Pflugerville city limits, developers are building packaging
Liberty Hill’s approved work plan with Garver includes coordinating with the city and TCEQ to discuss alternative solutions for meeting phosphorus limits. Liberty Hill has yet to submit a separate work plan for a phosphorus study, a TCEQ official said. “The [city] assures the community that all decisions will continue to be based on strong science, data and legal compliance to protect the health, safety and well-being of Liberty Hill and Central Texas,” a city statement regarding the South Fork WWTP reads. The city of Liberty Hill declined Community Impact’s request for interviews due to ongoing litigation. “The conflict that we’re seeing here between management of water resources in the rivers, and then dealing with an increasing population in Central Texas … is going to get increasingly more common,” Nowlin said.
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SOURCE: CITY OF LIBERTY HILL/COMMUNITY IMPACT
plants—small-scale wastewater treatment facilities that serve a development or neighborhood—lead- ing to concerns from some residents and officials about the environmental impact of such options. While some Central Texas areas are seeing a slowdown in growth, Liberty Hill is expecting higher water demands in the next 20 years.
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