Austin OKs nearly $500,000 for wastewater repairs

AUSTIN (KXAN)—Austin Water Utility has authorized $488,400 for emergency repairs to a lift station that flooded in August causing roughly 50,000 gallons of sewage to spill into a South Austin tributary, according to a city memo.
It will take roughly seven months to repair the Southland Oaks Lift Station, which was inundated with runoff water during an Aug. 20 flood that resulted in a spill into a Bear Creek tributary, according to media reports and a memo from Austin Water U