Round Rock City Council will consider an agreement for the city to continue treating water for the city of Georgetown at its March 26 meeting.
The gist
The cities of Round Rock and Georgetown entered into a water treatment and transmission agreement several years ago, with Round Rock treating up to 3 million gallons of raw water per day from Lake Georgetown because of the extra treatment capacity at Round Rock’s plant. Round Rock’s water treatment plant has the capacity to treat 52 million gallons per day.
With the agreement now expired, Georgetown asked Round Rock to renew the deal. According to city documents, Round Rock will have additional capacity to treat water based on future demand projections. Per the agreement, Georgetown will be charged a monthly base rate of $3,702 and volume rate of $2.21 per thousand gallons of water.
The agreement would be effective for five years. If the Round Rock treatment plant were to reach 44 million gallon per day for three consecutive days, or if it were to enter into its drought contingency plan, then Georgetown would be required to curtail its take of water to no more than 1.5 million gallons per day, according to city documents.