The Engineering and Public Works Roadshow stops at the Bois d’Arc Reservoir

North Texas–APWA’s national collaboration to showcase great infrastructure and emphasize the need for a new workforce visited the North Texas Municipal Water District’s $1.6 billion Bois d’Arc Lake Water Supply Program today.

Bois d’Arc Lake, which started providing a crucial new water source for two million North Texans in more than 70 cities in 2023, is also the newest major reservoir in Texas in more than 30 years.

“Like public works, you don’t see it, but this lake water supply system could not be what it is today without the technology you don’t see,” said American Public Works Association Region VII Director Kristina Ramirez, PE, CPM, CFM, and the director of planning and development for Harker Heights, Texas. “While visitors and people who fish see the new dam and 16,600-acre reservoir, it’s the treatment plant and transmission systems, two pump stations, 60 miles of pipelines, and 17,000 acres of forest, grassland, and stream mitigation that get me excited.”

The Engineering & Public Works Roadshow is the nation’s only organized effort to do what it’s doing. The American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC), the American Public Works Association (APWA), and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) have collaborated on the Roadshow since 2022.

Bois d’Arc, the Roadshow’s 16th stop, serves some of the fastest-growing communities in Texas and the nation and is an excellent example of great engineering and public works.