Brushy Creek Regional Utility Authority Contractor Uses FODS Trackout Control System to Protect Lake Travis Waterway
BCRUA Water Collection Infrastructure Project
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Leander, TX
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Travis County
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Lake Travis
Located on the north end of the Austin Metro area, the Brushy Creek Regional Utility Authority (BCRUA) is a cooperative partnership between Cedar Park, Leander, and Round Rock, some of Texas's fastest-growing populations. The authority treats and distributes water from the Lower Colorado River Authority and distributes to residents in the area. Planned by BCRUA since 2007, the $224.8 million Phase 2 Raw Water Delivery System Project is now underway to improve drought resilience and increase capacity from the current 32 million up to 106 million gallons per day to prepare for future growth.
The Lead Designer, Schabel Engineering, has developed a deep-water intake system with two lake taps with multi-level intake screens to replace the existing floating intake. The lake taps will lead to a 9,000-foot long, 10-foot diameter Gravity Raw Water Intake Tunnel, which supplies water from Lake Travis to a new 145-Million Gallons per Day (MGD) pump station adjacent to the existing Cedar Park Water Treatment Plant. The project also includes a new Maintenance Building and chemical feed system to treat the water before pumping to improve water quality and prevent the spread of invasive species. The Pump Station will send water through a Transmission Tunnel to connect to the existing Transmission Main on the north side of Lake Travis.
