In response to community complaints about the frequency of sludge truck traffic through the Windermere community in Pflugerville, SouthWest Water Co. has instituted a plan to limit such traffic.

The plan will limit such trucks—which averaged 10–15 per day at the plant on Edgemere Drive according to SouthWest Vice President Chuck Profilet—to an average of fewer than two trucks per day.

SouthWest is the parent company of Windermere Utility Co. and supplies water to about 5,000 Pflugerville customer accounts, representing about 15,000 residents, or nearly one-third of the city's population.

Profilet said the company has accepted digested sludge and grey water from other wastewater systems as a source of revenue, but that, effective May 1, the company would only accept such material from two area SouthWest owned systems.

That, he said, would reduce truck traffic to an average of fewer than two trucks per day.

Residents voiced complaints over the trucks passing through the neighborhood at city hearings concerning rate increases and the merger of the Windermere Utility Co. with a number of other such systems around the state.

SouthWest and Pflugerville recently reached a deal ending the pending merger and freezing rates for at least one year.