Water Project Expertise That Runs Deep
Reliable water infrastructure starts with a contractor that delivers confidence. It takes a team that understands the responsibility behind every system, every connection and every deadline. Zachry builds and rehabilitates large-scale water infrastructure for communities, industries and regional systems. Our work includes dams, reservoirs, raw water conveyance, pumping facilities and treatment plants, supported by more than a century of heavy civil experience.
Zachry self-performs major scopes with our experienced crews and specialized equipment, ensuring intended progress with our advanced project control systems. This approach helps our teams coordinate interfaces and respond to changing conditions while maintaining safety, quality and schedule requirements. We support water authorities, river authorities, federal agencies and industrial users with the construction resources needed for complex water infrastructure.
Expertise Across the Water Infrastructure Lifecycle
You need treatment and processing systems to perform and stay in compliance every day. Treatment facilities bring together civil construction, complex process systems and exacting operational requirements. Zachry delivers drinking water treatment plants, wastewater treatment plants, water reuse facilities and other process facilities, with capabilities spanning new construction, upgrades and expansions. Our teams understand the coordination required among structures, mechanical piping, process equipment, electrical systems and existing plant operations. That experience helps you expand capacity, modernize aging facilities and meet evolving water needs while protecting ongoing operations.
Water storage infrastructure must perform reliably for decades. Zachry builds and rehabilitates dams, reservoirs, storage tanks and flood control structures designed for long-term performance under demanding conditions. Our experience also includes complex gate installation and rehabilitation, where careful planning, sequencing and execution are essential to working within existing water systems. From new construction to improvements on critical operating assets, we bring the heavy civil expertise to build infrastructure you can depend on.
Every connection matters when water needs to stay in motion. Zachry constructs the systems that transfer water between rivers, reservoirs, treatment facilities and industrial users, including raw water conveyance, water transfer systems, intake and pumping facilities, canals and channels. By coordinating major civil, structural and mechanical scopes in the field, our teams can address the complex interfaces and operating constraints that define large-scale conveyance projects.
For municipal water distribution and collection networks, explore our Underground Utilities capabilities.
Managing water also means preparing for what happens when there is too much of it. Zachry constructs and rehabilitates levees, spillways, outlet works, flood mitigation structures and stream restoration projects that help protect communities, infrastructure and natural systems. These projects demand an understanding of earthwork, hydraulic structures, environmental constraints and construction in and around active waterways. We bring those disciplines together in the field, giving you an experienced partner for infrastructure built to withstand changing conditions and perform when it matters most.
Featured Projects
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CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI: WESLEY SEALE DAM
The project consists of the replacement of two aging spillway crest gates, and retrofitting 25 additional bays on the dam with the installation of a new dewatering system using new stop logs. A new…
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WHITE OAK BAYOU SEGMENT 105
Segment 105 runs 7.8 miles along White Oak Bayou from 1960 to Hollister Rd. and is comprised of replacing drainage, reshaping, and protecting slopes from erosion by rock and concrete placement, and…
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WALLER CREEK TUNNEL PROJECT
The Waller Creek corridor in downtown Austin is part of a 100-year floodplain and, by the project’s start date in July 2012, was in need of a comprehensive flood relief plan. The City of Austin…
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SAN ANTONIO RIVER IMPROVEMENTS – MISSION REACH
With the completion of the Mission Reach Ecosystem Restoration and Recreation Project in October 2014, the San Antonio River Authority gained a new piece of history adding to San Antonio’s storied…
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GBRA LAKE DUNLAP
The project will rebuild and replace all three 93-year-old spill gates on Lake Dunlap Dam. This dam is located on the Guadalupe River between Seguin and New Braunfels, TX in Guadalupe County. In May…
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SAWS BRACKISH GROUNDWATER DESALINATION PROJECT – PHASE I
The San Antonio Water System (SAWS) desalination project, a Zachry-led joint venture, transforms brackish water into millions of gallons of drinkable water. SAWS and the City of San Antonio (CoSA)…
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