WILLIAMSON COUNTY PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE

 

NEWS RELEASE

 

     Lisa Trow, LCRA

                        800- 776-5272 ext. 2982

 

HAIRY MAN ROAD WORK CONTINUES THROUGH OCTOBER

 

            August 4, 2004 (Round Rock, TX) -- Williamson County will open Hairy Man Road (County Road 174) by November 1.  Heavy spring rains delayed work by the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) on a wastewater line that runs down the center of Hairy Man Road. 

This line is part of a regional wastewater collection system that consists of a 17-mile wastewater interceptor – a large pipeline – extending from Cedar Park to the Brushy Creek Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant adjacent to Highway 79 just east of Dell Diamond.  One of the LCRA’s primary goals with the project is to improve water quality in Brushy Creek and protect the Edwards Aquifer.  Instead of using lift stations that are subject to failures and overflows that can cause pollution problems, wastewater will flow by force of gravity to the Brushy Creek plant.  The collection system serves portions of Round Rock, Cedar Park, Austin and the Brushy Creek and Fern Bluff municipal utility districts.  For further information, call the LCRA at 1-800-776-5272 ext. 2352.  David Smith is the project manager and his number is 512-845-4613.

Additionally, Round Rock is in the planning stages of extending Creek Bend Road.  This road work will not be started until 2007.  As part of that construction, Creek Bend Road will make a “T” connection with Hairy Man Road to the west.  

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