The Travis Heights Reclaimed Water Main Project is part of a series of projects that will provide more reliable service to reclaimed water customers. The project will include installation of 4,560 feet of 24" reclaimed main beginning at the intersection of Travis Heights Road & Fairmount Avenue and running west along Fairmount, turning north along Alemeda Drive, turning west onto Woodland Avenue across the Blunn Creek Greenbelt, turning north onto Eastside Drive, turning west onto West Monroe Street, crossing South Congress Avenue before ending at the intersection of West Monroe Street & Newton Street. It is an essential project for securing a looped reclaimed water supply.
Timeline
Austin Water’s Travis Heights Reclaimed Water Main Project is currently in the design phase. The project will build a new water main delivering recycled water for non-potable uses like irrigation, toilet flushing and industrial cooling.
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 done with the construction of the main.