Red River Authority Of Texas

Red River Authority of Texas, a Texas-based U.S. government entity operating as a water authority, is a recipient of federal cooperative agreements and project grants for water infrastructure and conservation work, with all six tracked awards issued as prime grants from the Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 and the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation.

Red River Authority of Texas is a governmental special district, not a for-profit vendor, and operates exclusively in a grant-recipient capacity rather than as a federal contractor. The authority's federal footprint spans water systems infrastructure improvement, advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) installation, and water conservation projects in northern Texas. Two cooperative agreements totaling $1.845 million were awarded by EPA Region 6 on April 1, 2026, under the Congressionally Mandated Projects program (CFDA 66.202) for design and construction of pump stations, tanks, pumps, and monitoring equipment to address water delivery system defects and return the public water system to regulatory compliance, with performance through January 31, 2029. Two project grants from the Bureau of Reclamation totaling approximately $2.2 million, awarded in February 2022 and September 2023, supported advanced metering infrastructure installation — one replacing 500 meters and another replacing 2,650 manual meters with smart meters equipped with radio and computer reading equipment — to provide real-time consumption data, identify leaks within hours rather than 60 days, and deliver annual water savings of 105 acre-feet to offset groundwater use in the Red River Basin.

Customer concentration is split across two agencies: the Bureau of Reclamation (three awards) and EPA Region 6 (two awards), with one award from the Department of the Air Force Air Education and Training Command in the portfolio. Award activity is sparse — one or two awards per tracked year over a fourteen-year period — with the most recent wave arriving in April 2026 (two cooperative agreements). The authority performs no sub-awardee or subcontractor activity; all work is executed directly by Red River Authority of Texas. Combined obligated dollars across all awards total $3.1 million.