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The Arlington Municipal Airport is a full-service general aviation airport
owned by the City of Arlington. Designated as a National Airport, it
provides an alternative to DFW Airport and Love Field, for flight training,
corporate, cargo, charter, and private aviation. Approximately 230
aircraft and 18 businesses are based at the Airport, including Bell’s Flight
Test Research Center, Van Bortel Aircraft, Inc., Arlington Air Center, and
Airline Transport Professionals (ATP). The Airport provides a Full-
Service FBO, fifty-six T-hangars, two commercial hangars, and 52 tie-
downs for lease, in addition to those offered by FMF and Airport
Properties, Inc. The terminal building (LEED Gold certified) houses Airport Operations and six businesses. Runway 16/34 is
6,080 ft. long by 100 ft. wide, with east and west parallel taxiways. Air Traffic Control services are provided through the FAA’s
Federal Contract Tower program.

Arlington Water Utilities provides safe, high-quality drinking water to Arlington’s nearly 400,000 residents, more than 14
million yearly visitors, and thousands of people served by the department’s wholesale water customers in Tarrant County.
Arlington operates two water treatment plants with a combined daily
production capacity of 172.5 million gallons per-day. The department is
responsible for the maintenance and operation of more than 1,257 miles of
sanitary sewer main and more than 1,465 miles of water main.

Arlington Water is made up of seven divisions – Customer Care and
Business Services, Operations, Treatment, Engineering and Support
Services, Administration, Financial Services, and Communications. Some
key tasks for the department include forecasting financial needs for rate
setting, water treatment, water and sewer line construction and
maintenance, and water conservation initiatives.
The Water Environment Association of Texas presented Arlington Water Utilities with the WEAT Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Award in the organization category for “extraordinary contributions to DEI initiatives in the water sector of Texas and specifically
the Water Environment Association of Texas”.

In November 2021, City of Arlington officials kicked off a nearly $112.5 million improvements project at the Pierce-Burch Water
Treatment Plant. The construction is the largest plant rehabilitation project in the history of the Arlington Water Utilities treatment
division. Over the past three years, the construction company has
built two new underground clear wells, where a total of 8 million
gallons of finished water can be stored. High service pumps that
send water out from the plant are also being updated. The project
is scheduled to be completed in Fall 2025.

The new Arlington Water Utilities Laboratory and Maintenance
Building at the John F. Kubala Water Treatment Plant on U.S. Hwy
287 opened Spring 2024. The $12 million project had been under
construction since May 2022. The new modern 26,825-square-
foot facility replaces a lab building and maintenance facilities that
were too small and outdated for the department’s current needs.

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