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Discuss and consider approving the updated Water and Wastewater Master Plans.
Summary
Discuss and consider recommending approval of the Water and Wastewater Master Plans. The purpose of the Water and Wastewater Master Plan is to execute an assessment of existing City infrastructure and to develop a comprehensive Capital Improvement Plan for the water treatment and distribution and wastewater treatment and collection systems.
Garver was selected as the consultant to develop the Water Master Plan and STV (CP&Y) was selected as the consultant to develop the Wastewater Master Plan. These consultants were selected to define the future needs of the City and determine commitments for water and wastewater services to be included in the City's Five Year Capital Improvement Plan.
While the City has conducted annual updates to the 2020 Water and Wastewater Master Plans to ensure we reflected updated costs during dynamic economic activity across the country, City staff has not conducted a full update to these Master Plans. A large change to the Water Master Plan was conducted with the plan being to serve the City's existing Water Certificate of Convenience and Necessity (CCN) and to not expand that existing boundary any farther than it currently extends. The previoius Water Master Plan from 2020 assumed that the City would provide water to a much larger service area than the current CCN covers. This change reflects a more realistic approach to how CCN boundaries are dictated and provides realistic expectations for Capital Improvement Plans to not overextend the City's water service area. This 5-year update reflects continued operational improvements to rehabilitate aging water infrastructure and address areas where unaccounted for water loss will continue to be an issue as this infrastructure continues to age while also addressing continued growth within the City's core areas within the water CCN. A large change that is outlined in the 5-year update to the C...
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