A planned 3-mile waterline along CR 255 will help serve about 25,000 water customers in northwest Georgetown, officials announced at a Jan. 29 press conference.
About the project
The CR 255 waterline project includes the construction of a 30-inch diameter line connecting to Georgetown’s Daniels Mountain water storage tank, and to tie into an existing 30-inch waterline on CR 289 and Ronald Reagan Boulevard, according to Georgetown Communications Manager Keith Hutchinson.
U.S. Rep. John Carter, R-Round Rock, announced $3.5 million in federal funding will be dedicated to the $10.6 million waterline project. The city will pay for the remaining $7.1 million.
“We’ve got [a] limited amount of water, … and Texas is one of the fastest growing places in America,” Carter said at the press conference. “We want to grow. We want to give people good places to live and good places to work. But we also want to make sure that we have enough water.”
The impact
The project is in a “high-growth area” of Georgetown’s water utility territory, according to Hutchinson.
Northwest Georgetown has seen multiple housing and commercial developments along the Ronald Reagan corridor.
“Without waterlines, we can’t build houses [and] we can’t get businesses open, which means that we can’t do economic development,” Georgetown Mayor Josh Schroeder said at the press conference.