Texas Water Development Board approves $90,000,000 to the City of Fort Worth (Tarrant, Denton, Parker, Wise counties) for a flood mitigation project

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AUSTIN – (December 16, 2025) – The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) today approved by resolution financial assistance in the amount of $90,000,000 to the City of Fort Worth (Tarrant, Denton, Parker, Wise counties), consisting of $71,250,000 in financing and $18,750,000 in grant funding from the Flood Infrastructure Fund (FIF). The City will use the assistance for the planning, acquisition, design and construction of a flood mitigation project.

In addition to the grant funding, the City could save approximately $52,400,000 over the life of the loan by using the FIF.

With the assistance approved today, the City will perform hydraulic and hydrologic modeling of the City’s Lebow Channel area and 7,392 feet of channel improvements. Channel improvements include excavation of 4,000 feet of the existing channel, nine roadway crossings, spillway transition structure, and reconstruction of 8 culverts, which includes 16 headwalls, stream restoration, access ramps at existing crossings, and establishment of vegetation. The City also proposes construction of a 40-acre detention pond.

The TWDB is the state agency charged with collecting and disseminating water-related data, assisting with regional water and flood planning, and preparing the state water and flood plans. The TWDB administers cost-effective financial assistance programs for the construction of water supply, wastewater treatment, flood mitigation, and agricultural water conservation projects.