This paper covers a 5 year mandate to reduce groundwater use by 30% followed by a 60% reduction by 2025 for the City of Missouri City, Texas. Discussed are the city’s efforts to coordinate funding, outreach, regulatory, design and construction of the treatment and transmission facilities within this abbreviated timeframe. The result was the const...

The City of Missouri City, in conjunction with 30plus municipal utility districts within the city limits, completed a 10 MGD (first phase) regional surface water treatment plant to meet the Fort Bend County Subsidence District's mandates for reducing groundwater use. As a part of the facility, microfiltration membranes were utilized to meet both c...

The Surface Water and Treatment System facility consists of lime-softened clarification, dual media filtration, ultrafiltration membrane filtration, and reverse osmosis (RO) membrane treatment. This system treats water from Lake Granbury in Granbury, Texas, which has elevated levels of chlorides ranging from 50 to 1,400 mg/L. As designed, the syste...