The Colorado River Municipal Water District has taken steps to provide additional long-term water supplies for its member cities and municipal customers by acquiring additional groundwater and moving forward with the construction of a water reclamation plant.
CRMWD has acquired a groundwater well field from Luminant Generation Company in Ward County, Texas. This well field supplies the Permian Basin Power Plant west of Monahans. Under terms of the agreement Luminant has retained enough water for their current operational plans for the power plant. The remaining groundwater reserves and existing well field infrastructure (wells, pipelines and pump stations) were purchased by the District. The District anticipates that this new source of water will be connected to its existing water transmission system sometime during the summer of 2011.