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Site feasibility and due diligence

A written answer before your option period ends: can it be served, how, and at what cost. Or walk.

Paving, drainage and landscape islands on a finished retail site, Texas

What this covers

Title work and a Phase I do not tell you whether a tract can be served. They do not check for a discharge point, who holds the service rights, or whether the nearest plant has room. That answer often arrives after closing, when the carry is already running.

We answer those questions inside your due diligence window, for water, wastewater, fire flow and permits together. If the site can’t be served on your schedule, you hear it before you close.

  • Desktop diligence
  • Site walk-down and field verification
  • Permitting pathway and cost exposure review
  • Water supply and wastewater due diligence
  • Developable area assessment and conceptual site plan
  • Site assessment report
  • One site or several, in one review

Start with a first answer

An engineer reads your note and tells you the pathway, the agencies involved and what decides cost and schedule.

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Which pathways fit your site?

Three questions. A first read, not a determination.

Is a public sewer main within reach of the site?
Where is the site?
Is there spare land, or a nearby use for treated water?

Answer the three questions to see which pathways fit this site.

  1. Possible

    Connect to a public system

    A capacity or will-serve request, a main extension, and sometimes a lift station and force main.

    Who decides: The city or utility district

  2. Possible

    Package plant with a discharge permit

    A new treatment plant permitted to discharge (TPDES): public notice, the chance of a contested hearing, and a look at whether a regional system could serve the site instead.

    Who decides: TCEQ

  3. Possible

    Land application, no discharge

    Treated effluent is applied to land under a TCEQ permit instead of discharged to a stream, so the site needs enough suitable acreage.

    Who decides: TCEQ

  4. Possible

    Reclaimed water reuse

    Treated water goes to an approved reuse under TCEQ’s Chapter 210 rules, such as irrigation or an industrial use. Eligibility depends on the reuse and the user.

    Who decides: TCEQ

  5. Possible

    CCN or ETJ release

    A petition to take the tract out of a city’s ETJ, or out of a utility’s CCN when the holder can’t or won’t serve it, which can open the other pathways.

    Who decides: The city (ETJ) or the PUC (CCN)

A first look, not a determination. A licensed PE confirms the pathway, the agencies and the cost range in writing. Texas pathways shown; in Colorado and other states, tell us the site.

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Questions

Straight answers.

We already have a civil engineer. Why add you?

Keep them. We can take only the water and wastewater piece, or check their pathway.

How is the review priced?

A fixed fee per site, credited toward our design and permitting if you go ahead.

Talk to an engineer

Tell us about your project.

  1. An engineer reads it

    Not a salesperson. Someone who can tell you whether the pathway is real.

  2. You get a first answer

    Your options, the agencies involved and the questions that decide cost and schedule.

  3. You decide

    No commitment to have the first call.

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