Hurst Creek Municipal Utility District officers accept a $100,000 conservation grant May 18 from Lower Colorado River Authority staffers. Hurst Creek Municipal Utility District officers accept a $100,000 conservation grant May 18 from Lower Colorado River Authority staffers.[/caption] The Hurst Creek Municipal Utility District received a $100,000 grant May 18 from the Lower Colorado River Authority. The funds will help the water and wastewater service district upgrade its water treatment plant and save more than 32 million gallons of water annually, said John Hoffman, LCRA vice president of water. “We’re excited because the new system will take a load off our wastewater treatment plant and effluent disposal system while saving water from the Highland Lakes,” said Earl Wood, Hurst Creek MUD general manager. The grant is funded by an LCRA program that supports the water efficiency projects of its firm water customers such as the city of Lakeway. The upgrade involves recycling water at its wastewater treatment plant that had been previously discarded—a savings of about 100 acre-feet of water per year, Hurst Creek MUD President Wilson Smith said. An acre-foot is 325,851 gallons. The MUD serves 2,500 Village of The Hills residents.