Interesting Facts

• Texarkana Water Utilities is a city department that is jointly operated by the Cities of Texarkana, Arkansas and Texas
• Water Service is provided to:
  • City of Texarkana, TX
  • City of Texarkana, AR
  • 7 Member Cities (Partner Cities who receive water at the same rate as Texarkana)
    • Annona, TX
    • Avery, TX
    • DeKalb, TX
    • Hooks, TX
    • Maud, TX
    • New Boston, TX
    • Wake Village, TX
  • 9 Wholesale Customers
    • City of Nash, TX
    • City of Redwater, TX
    • Central Bowie Corp
    • D&Z Industrial
    • Macedonia Corp
    • Mandeville Corp*
    • Oak Grove Corp
    • Red River Water Corp
    • Union Water Corp*
• Texarkana has over 867 miles of water mains and 3,259 fire hydrants
• Texarkana has 539 miles of wastewater main lines
• Number of Wastewater Plants 3
  • South Regional WWTP
  • Waggoner Creek WWTP
  • North Texarkana WWTP
• Texarkana has 40 wastewater lift stations
• TWU treated 4.1 billion gallons of wastewater (2004)
• Composting diverted 149,000 cu. yds. of greenwaste from area landfills (2004)
• South Regional WWTP produced 2,444 metric tons of biosolids for composting (2004)

     *As of Feb 2004 Mandevile & Union Water were purchased by the City of Texarkana, Arkansas