The city of Round Rock is one step closer to extending wastewater services in its extraterritorial jurisdiction, just across SH 130 near the city’s border with Hutto.
What you need to know
City officials approved on April 9 a contract with BGE Inc. to provide engineering services for a future wastewater lift station and force main located near the intersection of CR 100 and CR 118, east of SH 130. The scope of work covered by this agreement includes confirming flows as well as determining the exact location and layout for the lift station and force main.
The approved contract amount is $289,298, and will be paid out of the city’s self-funded water construction budget.
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The details
Round Rock Public Works Director Michael Thane said the area’s geology only allows for gravity wastewater drains to flow southeasterly, necessitating a lift station and force main.
Lift stations, Thane said, like the one the city will use in this instance, function by using a wet well to pump wastewater uphill back west and drain into the city’s wastewater system.
What’s next?
Thane said the project would be around a five-year project from start to finish, and that the city is coordinating with the city of Hutto to temporarily drain wastewater from the area into Hutto’s wastewater system until the Round Rock lift station is fully constructed.
As the contract approved April 9 only includes engineering, a future item will be brought to council to fund its construction.