Irving, TX Water Use Rules: Recycled Water Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Las Colinas development
- 12,000 acres, 4 golf courses
- DCURD reclaimed-water contract
- up to 8,000 acre-ft/yr (7.14M gal/day)
- Actual DCURD reuse (5-yr avg)
- 56,980,480 gallons per year
- Irving Golf Club reuse permit
- up to 31,600 acre-ft/yr, Jim Chapman Lake
- TRA effluent contract (golf club)
- up to 25 million gallons/day
- Program began
- Feb. 2015, diverting 486 acre-feet/yr
Summary
Irving's Water Management Plan documents an active, contractual, non-potable water reuse system rather than a rule for individual customers. The Dallas County Utility and Reclamation District delivers reclaimed effluent and Trinity River surface water to irrigate the Las Colinas development's four golf courses, medians and lakes, and the city separately reuses treated effluent to irrigate its own Irving Golf Club under a Trinity River Authority contract.
The Dallas County Utility and Reclamation District (DCURD) provides non-potable water to the Las Colinas development. This non-potable water is used for irrigation of the four (4) golf courses, offices, street medians and open spaces; and evaporation make-up water for various lakes and waterways within the development. The non-potable water supplied by DCURD is a combination of surface water from the Elm Fork of the Trinity River and reclaimed wastewater purchased from the Trinity River Authority's Central Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant. DCURD has a contract with TRA to purchase up to eight thousand (8,000) acre-feet per year (7.14 million (7,140,000) gallons per day) of treated wastewater effluent.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4988517; v32 updated 2026-07-30).
Full Breakdown
10 of the Water Management Plan (Appendix A to the Code of Civil and Criminal Ordinances, adopted by Ordinance 2024-10896) describes how recycled water already serves large irrigation demand in Irving. The Dallas County Utility and Reclamation District (DCURD) supplies non-potable water to the 12,000-acre Las Colinas master-planned development, covering irrigation for its four golf courses, office landscaping, street medians and open space, plus evaporation make-up water for the development's lakes and waterways. 75 million gallons a month) of that reclaimed water. The city runs a second, city-owned reuse system: since 2018 the Irving Golf Club (formerly Twin Wells Golf Course) has irrigated with reuse water under the city's own permit to divert up to 31,600 acre-feet a year from Jim Chapman Lake and a Trinity River Authority contract for up to 25 million gallons a day of treated effluent from the same Central Regional plant.
The golf club project began diverting water in February 2015, starting at 486 acre-feet of the permitted total, and the plan credits it with keeping roughly 70,000,000 gallons a year from having to be pumped 80 miles from Chapman Lake to Lewisville Lake, treated in Dallas, and re-pumped through Irving's system.
Violations & Fines
Section 5.10 describes infrastructure and interlocal contracts, not a rule enforced against residents, so it carries no penalty of its own. Enforcement inside the same Water Management Plan runs through Irving Water Utilities' notice-of-violation and citation process for irrigation and drought-restriction violations, and through the Code's Section 1-6 general penalty, which fines Code and ordinance violations up to $2,000.00 per day for water-related offenses.
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