Residents of unincorporated areas of southeast Travis County, near Elroy, might finally get running water to their homes, which they've been decades without.
U.S. Rep. Greg Casar presented Travis County with a $1 million check for the Eastern Travis County Water Main improvement project Thursday, Community Impact reported.
“We have neighbors and neighborhoods here that don't have basic access to water,” Casar said. “They either have low water pressure, they don't have a water pipe out of their neighborhood at all, they're being overcharged by private companies, or they're not getting clean water.”
Despite recent growth in rural part of the county along FM 812, near Circuit of the Americas and a number of other developments, significant water infrastructure hasn't been developed.
“Access to clean, safe drinking water is a human right. Nobody should have to drive to a water standpipe to fill up their tanks and haul it to their homes to have safe drinking water for their families. For the last few decades, some neighborhoods, like the Farm-to-Market road 812 neighborhood, and across the unincorporated areas of Travis County have lacked this basic infrastructure," Travis County Judge Andy Brown said.
The million dollars in funding will help begin the design and construction of a new water main running along FM 812 from Elroy Road to Doyle Road,
