Cities of College Station and Bryan continue water well construction projects

This podcast contains comments from the June 26, 2025 College Station city council meeting.The process of drilling more water wells continues in Bryan and College Station.The College Station city council at its last meeting (June 26) awarded a $3.5 million dollar contract for the next phase of drilling three more water wells.This portion of an overall $69 million dollar project involves clearing land and building internal access roads and the concrete pads where the wells will be built.Assistant water services director Steven Maldonado said the wells, which will be running before August of 2028, will provide water on high demand days.Click HERE to read and download background information related to the College Station city council awarding a contract at its June 26, 2025 meeting.The process in Bryan is slower. That's after the city council at a special meeting last week (June 24) without public comment rejected three bids for drilling two more wells. Background information with the agenda item did not say why staff recommended rejecting bids. Another round of bidding is underway with a deadline of July 10th. If the council awards a bid, construction is scheduled to start at the end of August with a targeted completion of October of 2026.Click HERE to read and download background information from the Bryan city council's June 24, 2025 meeting.