Buda, Kyle And San Marcos Approve Issue Of $214M In Bonds For Water Pipeline

The plan is to provide a secure water supply as the entire area along Interstate 35 is growing rapidly, noted Graham Moore, executive director of Alliance Water.

City council members in Buda, Kyle and San Marcos approved the first issue of $214 million in bonds to pay for the first phase of a pipeline project to deliver a long-term water supply to those cities in partnership with the Alliance Regional Water Authority (ARWA) and the Canyon Regional Water Authority (CRWA). 

The plan is to provide a secure water supply as the entire area along Interstate 35 is growing rapidly, noted Graham Moore, executive director of Alliance Water.

Buda city officials agreed to contribute $1.6 million to the first phase while Kyle is allotting almost $9 million and San Marcos is paying $11.45 million for the water pipeline project, Moore said. The CRWA is contributing $9.9 million to the first phase of the project that primarily will pay for planning and design. 

The plan calls for building a pipeline to pump water from the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer to deliver an additional 13 million gallons of water daily to the partners in the pipeline project, Moore said. The goal is to complete the pipeline by 2023.