The Travis Heights Reclaimed Water Main project will add 4,500 linear feet to Austin Water's recycled water system. Also known as reclaimed water, recycled water is captured from drains at homes and businesses around the city, treated to a high quality at our facilities, and sent back to customers through special purple-painted pipes to be used for non-drinking purposes like irrigation, flushing toilets, and evaporative cooling.
The new installations will run along Fairmount Avenue, Monroe Street; and Alameda and East Side Drives. Ultimately Austin Water will complete a central ring of pipes linking the city's north and south recycled water systems.
Timeline
Austin Water’s Travis Heights Reclaimed Water Main Project is currently in the design phase. We anticipate construction will start in the winter of 2025 and take 21 months to complete.
Communications
Contacts
Josh Oeffinger, Project Manager
Capital Delivery Services, City of Austin
512-974-7115
josh.oeffinger@austintexas.gov
Steven Vargas, PE, PMP
Project Sponsor, Austin Water
512-972-0062
steven.vargas@austintexas.gov
Cynthia Miller, J.D.
Public Information Office, Austin Water,
512-972-0268
cynthia.miller@austintexas.gov
Connecting to Reclaimed Water
Reclaimed water is highly purified wastewater that is ordinarily discharged to the Colorado River. Austin Water takes some of the water, stores it in tanks and pumps it to customers for non-drinking uses such as irrigation, toilet flushing, and industrial cooling. Using reclaimed water conserves our drinking water.
If you're interested in a reclaimed water connection, let us know and we can provide more information. After paying for a meter, we’ll arrange with our contractor to install a service line and meter box. The cost of a connection can be substantially reduced if it is completed during construction of the main.