The Alan Rendl Regional Pump Station is part of the NHCRWA’s surface water supply and transmission program. Construction included building a new 40.3-million-gallons-per-day (MGD) finished water pumping station. The work generally included connecting to a surface water transmission main, a new pump station building, and installing two 14,000-gallon-per-minute (GPM) and two 7,000-gpm horizontal split-case centrifugal pumps with associated discharge piping, and a hydropneumatic system for connection to the surface water distribution system. Other work items included a new stormwater detention pond and outfall structure, two 12.5-MGD Ground Storage Tanks, chemical storage and feed system, new maintenance building, a medium-voltage electrical service with related buildings and equipment for power distribution, distributed generation and motor control, sanitary sewer lift station and off-site force main, and associated HVAC, plumbing, and incidental utilities.
The project began in late 2021 and completed in late 2024.
Owner: North Harris County Regional Water Authority
Engineer of Record: DEC
Location: Houston, TX
CMAA Project of the Year: Water/Wastewater (Plant) Project - greater than $100M (2024)
The Construction Management Association of America (CMAA) - Houston Chapter awarded the Alan Rendl Pump Station "Project of the Year" in November 2024. CMAA recognizes the entire life cycle of the project and acknowledges the team that contributed to the success of the project:
Owner: North Harris County Regional Water Authority
Program Design Management: AECOM
Engineer: Gannett Fleming
Construction Management and Inspection: Freese & Nichols
Contractor: Five Companies, LLC
About the North Harris County Regional Water Authority
On June 18, 1999, the bill that created the North Harris County Regional Water Authority (HB 2965) was signed into law, and called a special election for January 15, 2000 so voters could confirm the creation of the new Authority and elect Directors to lead it. Following the election, the Authority became the single entity empowered to negotiate for a secure, long-term, reliable, quality supply of wholesale drinking water for all the independent neighborhoods, municipal utility districts, small municipalities, and permitted well owners within its boundaries.
These boundaries are essentially US 290 on the west, the Harris County line on the north (Spring Creek), Cypress Creek Parkway and Bammel-North Houston on the south and the western shores of Lake Houston on the east. The Authority is comprised of 335 square miles and includes approximately 710,000 residents.
The Authority’s primary assignment is to develop and implement a strategy for complying with the Harris-Galveston Subsidence District’s Regulatory Plan that requires a reduction in groundwater usage to no more than 20 percent of total water demand by the year 2035. Since the Authority is not a taxing entity, funding for our future water supply and the infrastructure through which to deliver it is being accomplished through the sale of revenue bonds and paid for by revenue from groundwater pumpage fees and water sales.
For more information: https://www.nhcrwa.com/
