{"id":409127,"date":"2026-08-17T19:41:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T19:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/409127\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T19:41:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T19:41:54","slug":"walnut-creek-wastewater-treatment-plant-austin-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/409127\/","title":{"rendered":"Walnut Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant | Austin Water"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This year, Austin Water is starting construction on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.austintexas.gov\/water\/news\/austin-water-and-city-leaders-break-ground-expansion-walnut-creek-wastewater-treatment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$1.5 billion expansion<\/a> and modernization project at Walnut Creek, adding 25 million gallons of daily treatment capacity to serve more than 1 million people across the Austin area and maintain reliable wastewater service for years to come.<\/p>\n<p>With these investments, every part of the treatment process will be enhanced and upgraded, and we will be prepared to serve the growing needs of our City.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shay Ralls Roalson, Director, Austin Water<\/p>\n<p>The existing plant came online in 1977 and is currently permitted to treat 75 million gallons per day. Flows into the plant exceeded 75% of total treatment capacity in 2015 and surpassed 90% of capacity for three months in 2024, triggering state requirements to expand the facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This year, Austin Water is starting construction on a $1.5 billion expansion and modernization project at Walnut Creek,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-409127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}