Harlingen Waterworks System board approves an effluent water supply agreement with RGV Property LLC for a proposed data center
The City of Harlingen Waterworks System board of directors approved a water supply agreement with RGV Property LLC for a supply of effluent water. The water is intended to serve a proposed data center on land outside the Harlingen city limits in Cameron County. The board's own minutes carry the vote, 6 yeas and 0 nays. The trustees took it after consulting their attorney in executive session on what the agenda calls the RGVPG Data Center reclaimed water agreement. Roy Rodriguez, the interim general manager at that meeting, is recorded as the officer who recommended approval. The minutes call it a supply of effluent water.
How to take part
The Harlingen Waterworks System board meets in open session and posts agendas and minutes on hwws.com. The Harlingen City Commission has taken up the same subject in its own open meetings, where residents may sign up to speak.
Where
1 county. In Brownsville-Harlingen.
Timeline
- ordered
Special board meeting at which the water supply agreement was approved, per the board's posted minutes file
- Today
How this decision moved
One dated line per check, oldest first. A line that says nothing changed means somebody looked and it had not.
- 2026-08-19
Whether the agreement has changed is unconfirmed. The board publishes the minutes of that meeting only as a scanned document with no readable text.
- 2026-08-22
Whether the agreement has changed is still unconfirmed. The effluent water supply agreement for the proposed data center still stands as approved. The board still publishes the minutes of that meeting only as a scanned document with no readable text.
- 2026-08-26
Checked and unchanged. The board's effluent water supply agreement still stands and the utility's position that the plant will not draw drinking water is still the one on the record.
- 2026-08-29
Checked and unchanged. The water supply agreement the board approved still stands, and the water it sells is still effluent from the wastewater plant rather than drinking water. The volume parameters the board set are unchanged.
- 2026-09-02
The current standing of the effluent supply agreement is unconfirmed.
- 2026-09-03
The board's own posted minutes were read this run and they confirm the agreement. The minutes record a vote of 6 yeas and 0 nays on a water supply agreement with RGV Property LLC for a supply of effluent water. The board took it after an executive session on what the agenda calls the RGVPG Data Center reclaimed water agreement. The item had rested on a news article whose page serves nothing a quote can be read from. Four claims now cite the minutes, and the record no longer depends on that article for the vote. The minutes give Roy Rodriguez as interim general manager at that meeting, and the summary said general manager, which is corrected.
- 2026-09-03
Two claims were removed rather than re-stamped. They rested on a yahoo.com article page, which answers 200 at half a megabyte and serves nothing a quote can be read from. They carried an August 14th fetch date under an item stamped verified today. The board's own minutes carry neither the general manager's drinking water remark nor the minimum annual payment figure. Neither claim moved to a readable source and neither is published any more. The summary's closing sentence now says what the minutes say.
- 2026-09-07
The board's own signed minutes still carry the vote and still record it as unanimous. The water in the agreement is still effluent rather than drinking water, and the interim general manager who recommended it is still the name on the recommendation.
- 2026-09-10
The board's approval of the effluent supply agreement still stands, and the agreement is still the one the record quotes. Nothing has been filed against it and no later action has replaced it.
- 2026-09-13
Checked and unchanged. The decision still stands as decided.
- 2026-09-16
The Harlingen effluent supply agreement is still approved and still points at a data center that has not been built. No amendment or cancellation has been posted.
- 2026-09-19
The effluent supply agreement stands, so the proposed data center's water is still to come from treated wastewater rather than from drinking supply.
- 2026-09-23
The Harlingen effluent agreement still stands as the board approved it.
- 2026-09-26
The Harlingen effluent agreement for the proposed data center still stands as the waterworks board approved it.
- 2026-09-29
The effluent supply agreement between Harlingen Waterworks and RGV Property holds as the board approved it.
The evidence
Every fact above rests on one of these. The words are the source's own.
a supply of effluent waterCity of Harlingen Waterworks System, Special Board Meeting Minutes, September 22, 2025 Primary source, official · hwws.com
Roy Rodriguez recommended the Board approve a Water Supply Agreement and RGV Property LLC for a supply of effluent water as described in the contract.City of Harlingen Waterworks System, Special Board Meeting Minutes, September 22, 2025 Primary source, official · hwws.com
to consult with attorney pursuant to TX Gov't Code Section 551.071(2) regarding the RGVPG Data Center reclaimed water agreement.City of Harlingen Waterworks System, Special Board Meeting Minutes, September 22, 2025 Primary source, official · hwws.com
Motion to Approve: 6 Yeas 0 NaysCity of Harlingen Waterworks System, Special Board Meeting Minutes, September 22, 2025 Primary source, official · hwws.com
Roy Rodriguez, Interim General ManagerCity of Harlingen Waterworks System, Special Board Meeting Minutes, September 22, 2025 Primary source, official · hwws.com
Questions about this decision
Answered from the record itself. Every answer is assembled from stored fields, so an answer the record has no basis for is left out rather than guessed.
What is this decision?
The City of Harlingen Waterworks System board of directors approved a water supply agreement with RGV Property LLC for a supply of effluent water. The water is intended to serve a proposed data center on land outside the Harlingen city limits in Cameron County. The board's own minutes carry the vote, 6 yeas and 0 nays. The trustees took it after consulting their attorney in executive session on what the agenda calls the RGVPG Data Center reclaimed water agreement. Roy Rodriguez, the interim general manager at that meeting, is recorded as the officer who recommended approval. The minutes call it a supply of effluent water.
Who decides it?
City of Harlingen Waterworks System Board of Directors decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Can the public take part?
The Harlingen Waterworks System board meets in open session and posts agendas and minutes on hwws.com. The Harlingen City Commission has taken up the same subject in its own open meetings, where residents may sign up to speak.
Where in Texas does it apply?
It covers Cameron County in the Brownsville-Harlingen, TX area.
Has it been decided?
It has been decided. The dates on the item page carry when.
What happens next?
No future date is on the record. The last dated step on it was ordered on September 22nd.
When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 22nd, 2025.
What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under land, water and permitting.
What sources back it?
One source backs it. It is primary.
Is it on the ERCOT grid?
Yes. It sits inside the ERCOT interconnection.
When was it last checked?
Every fact on it was last verified against its source on September 29th, 2026.
Cite this
Texas AI Docket, Harlingen Waterworks System board approves an effluent water supply agreement with RGV Property LLC for a proposed data center. Tracked since September 22nd, 2025. Last verified September 29th, 2026. https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0038/. Reuse permitted under CC BY 4.0 with attribution. The same entry is in the docket JSON as item tx-2026-0038.
Beat
Filed under Land, water and permitting, with every other decision on that beat.