Photo by Blake RasmussenResidents at an Oct. 18 water rate hearing at First Baptist Church in Pflugerville signed petitions protesting a then-proposed water rate increase, but also complained about sludge truck traffic traveling through an area neighborhood.
In response to complaints from residents 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 the 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.
