Lower Colorado River Authority
What to Know:
- Kerrville Public Utility Board is leading a regional partnership funded through the Texas Middle Mile Program to strengthen flood monitoring and warning capabilities in Kerr County.
- The buildout is designed to move data from stream and rain gauges, weather stations and Texas Department of Transportation bridge sensors in near real time.
- Partners include river authorities, local governments, Hill Country Telephone Cooperative and the Texas Department of Transportation.
What to Know:
- The Texas Broadband Development Office awarded the funds to expand rural broadband and flood-monitoring infrastructure.
- The project will improve ISP access to LCRA’s fiber network, upgrade flood-monitoring sites and extend fiber into underserved Central Texas communities.
- This grant follows Texas’ $1.27 billion BEAD plan approval and supports dual goals of digital equity and public safety.
The Best of Texas Awards, part of the Texas Digital Government Summit, honor public agencies working to improve the constituent experience.
The Lower Colorado River Authority has extended its partnership with Anterix, which provides 900 MHz private LTE networks for utilities and critical infrastructure. The two have been working together since mid 2023.
The organization is looking for a cyber leader, who will report to the CISO, to direct the risk management program as well as define and approve architecture standards.
Featured panel members at the Texas IT Leadership Forum included Tyler Technologies' VP of national sales, a Google Public Sector customer engineer and the Lower Colorado River Authority's enterprise data architect.
The nonprofit’s goal for the platform is to assist developers in incorporating water reuse technologies in new buildings by providing information on issues related to direct water reuse.
