Increasing capacity From the cover
Key water projects Planned projects 1 Sewer main installation along FM 528 2 Friendswood Parkway water line installation In progress
The overview
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Barry Rose reclamation facility Totaling $216M , this project will include constructing a new wastewater facility and decommissioning two others.
All three cities saw their respective population grow by at least 12% from 2013-2023, according to U.S. Census data released in December. That growth has come with plans to upgrade each city’s water infrastructure to keep up with the rising capacity needs, officials said. Pearland’s new Barry Rose wastewater facility will replace the current facility with the same name and increase the city’s overall wastewater capacity by around 400,000 gallons of water per day. In July, Manvel began building out its new water reclamation facility as well, which initially will add an additional 1 million gallons of water per day to its capacity. “[Barry Rose] positions us for some increased growth on the east end of town because it’s got a little more capacity,” Pearland Director of Utility David Sohns said. Those projects in large part are being funded through utility billing, officials said. Both cities have approved, in some cases, double digit rate increases in recent years to meet those needs. Meanwhile, Friendswood has a litany of projects both planned and underway, including its new wastewater master plan, Director of Communications Glenda Faulkner said in an email.
3 Manvel water reclamation facility 4 Barry Rose reclamation facility
5 24-inch waterline project 6 New ground storage tank and other improvements Completed 7 Pearland Surface Water Treatment Plant
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PENNYSTONE WAY.
BLACKHAWK BLVD.
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BLACKHAWK BLVD.
City of Pearland Surface Water Treatment Plant Commissioned in 2024, this $175M project allows the city to treat
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RICHMOND LINK
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EDENVALE ST.
INDEPENDENCE DR.
528
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an additional 10M gallons of drinking water per day.
FRIENDSWOOD DR.
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SPREADING OAKS AVE.
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WINDSONG LN.
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FALCON RIDGE BLVD.
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FRIENDSWOOD DR.
FRIENDSWOOD PKWY.
Manvel water reclamation facility Totaling $40M , this project will expand the city’s capacity to treat wastewater by 1M gallons per day, and could be expanded.
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SOURCES: CITIES OF FRIENDSWOOD, MANVEL AND PEARLAND/COMMUNITY IMPACT
Diving in deeper
total wastewater capacity to 1.5 million gallons per day when combined with its current plant. How- ever, the long-term goal is to decommission that existing plant and have the new plant expanded, which could eventually be able to handle 4 million gallons per day, city officials said Feb. 4. Friendswood has grown in its capacity to treat water and wastewater over the past two decades, Faulkner said. Officials said they believe the city’s current capacity will be sufficient through 2040.
ways Pearland has increased its surface water and wastewater capacity in recent months, Sohns said. Last October, the city also commissioned a new surface water treatment plant capable of treating up to 10 million gallons per day for drinking water. Two new groundwater well systems also went online in January after being unavailable for around eight years, adding another 4 million gallons per day total, Pearland Water Assistant Director Zachary Lillie said. For Manvel, its new facility will bring the city’s
For Pearland, the construction of the new Barry Rose facility will include decommissioning the city’s Longwood Wastewater Treatment Plant, which is outdated and located in a flood plain, Sohns said. Despite this, once built out, the new Barry Rose facility will take the incoming water from both the old Barry Rose facility and Longwood and increase the total wastewater capacity from around 5.6 million gallons of water per day to 6 million. The new Barry Rose facility is one of several
Friendswood
Manvel
Pearland
Capacity
Demand
Capacity
Demand
Capacity
Demand
Drinking water
Drinking water
Drinking water
4.6M
14.52M
0.9M
18.5M
44.4M
0.63M
2.9M
5.5M
0.31M
0.5M
8.8M
16.55M
Wastewater
Wastewater
Wastewater
0
5M
10M
15M
0 0.25M
0.5M 0.75M 1M
0 10M 20M 30M 40M 50M
Millions of gallons per day*
Millions of gallons per day*
Millions of gallons per day*
SOURCE: CITIES OF FRIENDSWOOD, MANVEL AND PEARLAND/COMMUNITY IMPACT *AS OF JANUARY 2025
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