You Could Drive a Pickup Through It
The scale of the Authority’s infrastructure is difficult to appreciate until you see it firsthand. Eric Hansen, President, shares the enormous size and investment required to bring surface water to communities across West Harris County.
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Transcript edited for clarity and readability.
I think the residents within the Authority would be surprised to learn the magnitude of these projects.
As a region, we’re spending close to $4.5 billion on joint projects, and another $2 billion on our individual distribution projects.
We’re bringing water from Lake Houston, 55 miles across town, to the Grand Parkway and I-10 through a 96-inch-diameter water line that you could drive your pickup truck through.
It’s a scale of project that is very difficult to comprehend.
When you look at it on paper, or you look at the costs on paper, until you can stand inside a pipeline that size, you really don’t understand what a Herculean effort it is to implement this conversion and what’s required to make that happen.
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