Work on the Mary’s Creek Water Reclamation Plant in west Fort Worth is expected to break ground in 2027.
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After more than 20 years, and roughly four years after a key hurdle was cleared, the Mary’s Creek Water Reclamation Plant in west Fort Worth is taking a step toward breaking ground.
At its work session meeting on Aug. 4, the Fort Worth City Council received an informal report on the selection of a construction contractor for the long-awaited plant.
The facility, Fort Worth’s first newly built wastewater treatment plant since the 1950s, has been planned since the early 2000s to accommodate the explosive growth on the west side of the city. The city operates one wastewater treatment plant, the Village Creek Water Reclamation Facility in east Fort Worth.
The Mary’s Creek plant would be north of the creek, on Chapin Road.
In 2022, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality issued a discharge permit to Fort Worth after reaching a deal with the city, the Tarrant Regional Water District, and a private landowner on the banks of Mary’s Creek.
The terms of the permit, according to a news release from when the permit was approved, included an agreement that TRWD would design and construct pipeline and pump station downstream of the Fort Worth plant that would capture the treated water and send it to the district’s existing water supply.
That project — called the Mary’s Creek Indirect Water Reclamation Project — is expected to break ground in 2027, TRWD Chief Engineering Officer Rachel Ickert told the Star-Telegram on Tuesday.
TRWD, and the landowner, objected to the project before the permit was approved because of concerns about potential impacts of the treated water. District officials argued in TCEQ filings that nutrients in the wastewater could promote the growth of toxic blue green algae.
The contractor selected for Fort Worth’s plant is Texas-based Webber Waterworks LLC. The city used a competitive sealed proposal procurement process — essentially, a process that allows the city to evaluate potential contractors based on factors like their qualifications, approach to a project and a proposed schedule.
When the deal was approved, Fort Worth agreed to “more stringent treatment requirements to further protect water quality,” according to TRWD’s 2022 statement.
At its meeting on Aug. 25, the city council will decide whether to recommend approval of the contract with Webber.
A specific start date has not been identified for the project, said Fort Worth water department spokesperson Mary Gugliuzza, but the city anticipates beginning construction before the end of 2026 and finishing in 2029.
“When we reached that agreement four years ago, that was a really exciting point at which basically all the arguments went away, and we all started working together,” Ickert said.
This story was originally published August 4, 2026 at 7:15 PM.
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Emily Holshouser is a local news reporter at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.