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Fort Worth gets its first new wastewater plant since the 1950s

Overseeing the district's reuse pipeline downstream of the plant

Wastewater from west Fort Worth currently travels as far as 30 miles east to the Village Creek plant, the city's only treatment works, which dates to the 1950s. On Aug. 25 the city authorized a $537,982,128 contract with Webber Waterworks to build a second one, the Mary's Creek Water Reclamation Facility. Ferrovial, the Spanish parent of Webber, announced the award on Nov. 5 and called it its largest water infrastructure project in the United States.

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