BULK WATER Services for San Angelo, TX

Doral Renewables closed nearly $900 million in construction financing for the Cold Creek Solar and Storage project in Schleicher and Tom Green counties in March 2026, issued notice to proceed the same month, and commenced full construction on the 430-megawatt solar generation plus 340-megawatt-hour battery energy storage system, with commercial operation targeted for summer 2028, (PR Newswire) placing one of the most capitalized utility-scale renewable energy construction programs currently active in Texas directly within the San Angelo metro service area. Bechtel, serving as the EPC contractor, is deploying more than 850,000 solar modules across the Cold Creek site spanning Schleicher and Tom Green counties, with the project expected to create over 500 jobs during peak construction, (Bechtel) and that workforce will operate across a sprawling multi-county footprint where permanent utility water infrastructure does not reach active panel installation zones, substation civil work sites, or BESS pad construction locations separated from San Angelo's service boundary by many miles of rural right-of-way. San Angelo anchors the Concho Valley region as a crossroads metro at the intersection of US 87, US 277, and US 67, serving as the primary labor market, materials staging point, and supply chain hub for the multi-county solar and energy storage construction programs now advancing across Tom Green, Schleicher, Concho, and adjacent counties, where the Cold Creek project follows the completed 160-megawatt Concho Valley Solar facility and adds to a pipeline of utility-scale energy investment that has made the San Angelo corridor one of the most active utility-scale solar construction zones in Central West Texas. Doral stated construction would begin in the first quarter of 2026 with Bechtel committing to complete work by mid-2028, (Engineering News-Record) establishing a sustained multi-year construction schedule that will require bulk water continuously for solar module pier drilling and concrete foundation pours across hundreds of caliche-surfaced acres, BESS civil pad construction and transformer base work, access road preparation and dust suppression across the project's dual-county footprint, and crew support for a peak workforce that San Angelo's rural water distribution system cannot reach at active construction locations. The Cold Creek project's $900 million financing close, combined with concurrent EPC mobilization, means the regional bulk water sourcing environment across the Tom Green and Schleicher county corridor will be committed to active construction programs well in advance of any late-mobilizing subcontractor's arrival, leaving contractors who have not confirmed supply arrangements before first equipment delivery with no viable alternative on a construction footprint this large. Water Runner provides TCEQ-licensed bulk water delivery with the fleet capacity and Central West Texas operational reach to serve San Angelo-area solar and BESS construction programs, EPC subcontractor field operations, and all Concho Valley energy infrastructure projects reliably from first mobilization through commercial operation.