ENR Features BCRUA Water Supply Project on Austin’s Lake Travis
The Brushy Creek Regional Utility Authority’s long-running project to build a new regional water system drawing from Lake Travis in Austin has been highlighted in the July “Digging Deeper” feature of Engineering News-Record’s Texas & Louisiana edition.
BCRUA was formed by the cities of Cedar Park, Round Rock and Leander in 2006 to develop a new water supply for the fast-growing area north of the Texas capital.
Phase 2 of the project is under construction; Phase 1 was completed in 2012.
As part of a joint venture with Walker Partners, Freese and Nichols designed the deep-water intake and is providing construction phase services and general and resident representation services for new raw water intake facilities at Lake Travis that include two multilevel intakes, intake and transmission tunnels, a raw water pump station and a maintenance building for chemical feed facilities.
When the system is completed, it will deliver nearly 145 million gallons of water per day to BCRUA’s member cities – more than 500,000 people.
Read the ENR story (subscription might be needed): Digging Deeper to Boost Austin-Area Water Supplies
Read more about the project: Deep-Water Intake and Tunnel System Aims to Reduce Drought Vulnerability