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Discuss and consider action to approve a professional services agreement with Garver, LLC in the amount of $1,650,192.00 for professional engineering services associated with the Wilbarger Creek Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility project and authorizing the City Manager to execute the same.
Summary
This item is for Conceptual Design of the proposed Wilbarger Creek Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility (WCRWWTF) project, identified as Project 9 in the adopted 2020 Wastewater Master Plan.
The City’s wastewater service area includes three basins, the Central, Wilbarger, and Cottonwood basins. Currently, lift stations and pumping infrastructure is in place to convey wastewater flows across basins to the Central Wastewater Treatment Plant.
The adopted 2020 Wastewater Master PIan recommended the City proceed with improvement projects in the Wilbarger Basin to provide conveyance of wastewater from the Wilbarger and Cottonwood basins to a new wastewater treatment plant in the Wilbarger Basin. The 2020 Wastewater Master Plan indicates that these improvements will need to be in service by late 2024 to meet the City’s projected growth needs.
The property for the proposed Wilbarger Creek Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility was purchased for this purpose in 2009 and is owned by the City of Pflugerville. The current proposed site was approved for purchase by City Council by Resolution 974-07-02-27-7D on 7/27/2007 for the purpose of public necessity 85.85 acre tract of land off Greg Lane. Specifically the City of Pflugerville’s intention to provide wastewater service in its eastern ETJ. Permit NO. WQ0011845005 (EPA I.D. No. TX0132021) was approved by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) 10/2009 to authorize the discharge of treated wastewater at a volume not to exceed an annual flow of 15,750,000 gallons per day. The discharge route is from the plant site via pipeline to Wilbarger Creek; then to the Colorado River below Lady Byrd Lake.
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