Title
Approving an ordinance on second reading with a caption reading: An ordinance of the City of Pflugerville, Texas, amending and updating Chapter 53, Water and Sewers, Reclaimed Water Regulations; providing cumulative, repealer and severability clauses; providing for open meeting and establishing an effective date.
Summary
With the adoption of the City’s Reclaimed Water Master Plan in 2023, the City has been moving forward with the implementation of the Master Plan with both the design of the Reclaimed Water Line to 1849 Park project and with drafting an ordinance that outlines the qualifications for connection to the system when it is online. Staff worked with the design consultant for the Reclaimed Water Line to 1849 Park project, Quiddity, to draft an ordinance that balanced the need to utilize the reclaimed water system for non-potable water needs with the needs of the development community that have significant water needs for their commercial or industrial business.
This ordinance will require large developments that are within 250 linear feet of a reclaimed water line to connect to the City’s reclaimed water system for non-potable water needs such as ornamental landscaping irrigation, cooling water needs, and other significant non-potable water needs. This ordinance will allow for those customers that would be affected by this ordinance to enjoy the benefit of reclaimed water for non-potable water needs and the reduced rate they would have for utilizing the reclaimed water system. In exchange for the reduced rate that the City has set for reclaimed water, the City will be able to reduce the long-term peak day and peak hour demand on the City’s potable water system. This benefit to the City will allow us to stretch the capital improvements currently ongoing for our potable water system further into the future and delay future capital expenditures into the potable water system. Although the reclaimed water system has not been extended out to this date, this ordinance would lay the groundwork for all future reclaimed water projects the City endeavors to undertake. As this ordinance will facilitate a more robust utility system and extend the life of the City’s capital improvement investments into the utility system, this ordinance meets the City’s strategic goal of infrastructure by allowing for the construction of more resilient and robust utility infrastructure to meet the future water needs of the City of Pflugerville.
Prior City Council Action
City Council approved the ordinance on first reading November 26, 2024.
City Council adopted the Reclaimed Water Master Plan August 22, 2023.
Deadline for City Council Action
Action is requested on second reading on December 10, 2024
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Supporting documents attached:
Reclaimed Water Use Ordinance
Reclaimed Water Use - Final Draft
Recommended Action
Approving the proposed ordinance adopting the Reclaimed Water Use ordinance