Fort Worth is moving toward construction of the Mary’s Creek Water Reclamation Plant, a west-side wastewater project that has been in planning for more than two decades.
The Fort Worth City Council was briefed during an Aug. 4 work session on the city’s choice of a contractor for the project. The company selected is Webber Waterworks LLC, a Texas-based firm. The city used a competitive sealed proposal process, which lets officials consider items such as contractor qualifications, project approach and schedule.
The plant would be Fort Worth’s first newly constructed wastewater treatment facility since the 1950s. It has been planned since the early 2000s as the west side of the city has grown. Fort Worth currently operates the Village Creek Water Reclamation Facility in east Fort Worth.
A major permitting issue was resolved in 2022, when the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality granted Fort Worth a discharge permit after an agreement involving the city, the Tarrant Regional Water District and a private landowner along Mary’s Creek. Mary’s Creek is a tributary of the Clear Fork of the Trinity River in Benbrook.
Before the permit was issued, TRWD and the landowner had raised concerns about possible effects from treated water, including district filings that said nutrients could contribute to toxic blue-green algae growth.
Under the permit agreement described when it was approved, TRWD was to design and build a downstream pipeline and pump station to collect treated water from Fort Worth’s plant and move it into the district’s existing water supply.
