Water Utilities update - City Council Strategic Planning Workshop 5-31-22

[0:00:00] foreign so thanks for hanging with us allison good evening um we're going to talk through mainly water supplies is it evening already yes it is i don't know what time it is but it definitely is evening my presentation is mainly about water supplies and waste larger wastewater projects we've already kind of touched on the water and sewer line replacement projects those are college hills a m mlk and randolph that shane went over so it's not really about the distribution replacement projects but more about supply in general so as of may 1st we are sitting at 58 months of water supply this year has been very sad depressing whatever you would like to say as far as rainfall goes um and i think the concern you mean there's been no flooding no no drainage which i know shane is not a fan of but i definitely am um and so we haven't seen that run off but these calculations do assume a zero inflow scenario so whatever those lakes are as of may 1st we assume no additional inflow will come into those reservoirs how they evaporate over the course of time crm wd provides ohiv's numbers um and so then we use those calculations to see kind of how those reservoirs

[0:02:04] project and we only factor in uh so this doesn't include hickory but only about a million and a half gallons a day obviously we can turn on that system to the 8 million gallons a day right now soon to be 12. but this is a worst case scenario so sitting at 58 months of water supply as of may 1st i like to show this just as our trend so last year when i was presenting this it was very much an increasing trend we are seeing 2021 drop back down into 12 and a half million gallons per day this is an annual average so in the winter sometimes we send out nine 10 million gallon days depending on the weather but in the summer we can hit 22-25 million gallons and that is mainly off irrigation demands and then how our usage stacks up so we are primarily residential consumers so we do not have a we do have large commercial customers but we don't have them as a whole across the city 71 percent of our water usage does go to residential and then you can see the breakdown between commercial institutional and industrial we have a very small industrial demand so we have talked about the hickory project and it's been discussed at several council meetings going into this year these are actual these top two pictures are pictures taken last week so you can see the drill rig is up mobilized and it is actively drilling the first well of five for this expansion project the picture on the left is the right-of-way clearing so those will be our roads and pipelines leading to the well sites and then the bottom picture is one of the pictures from several years ago when we were marketing the ranch but it is the main drive into the into our well field from the head gate this is the project that will take the hickory to the full permitted allocation of 12 million gallons per day

[0:04:06] hydro resources and plw are the contractors on those projects and we are working through the additional funding but a total of 62 million dollars uh to take this um project from the 8 million gallons to 12 and to do the two new clear wells 62 million allison you've talked about the clear wells a couple of times why don't you just for the benefit of the public define what what a clear whale is and what it does okay a clear well is the final holding area or the holding storage tank so to speak uh before the the pump station which what we call our high service pump station is the pump station that sends out water to the extents of the city and throughout all parts of distribution so whether that water is coming from ohiv or the hickory it goes into a very large tank a 5 million gallon reservoir which is the clear well where it undergoes that contact time with chlorine and all the other makeups to basically allow it to meet the regulatory requirements to be pumped and sent out to the distribution system they are very very very very critical yes to our water supply yes and currently we have one large clear well um and so we can only or only do maintenance on that clear well in the winter months so the we do not have flexibility from right now until probably mid-september to do any sort of maintenance on that clear well just due to our demands and how fast water is having to be pushed out to the distribution system hence it's extremely important that we yes we so what those are there's money on the clerk so the clear wells that we're doing uh for the future are two two and a half two million gallon clear wells so we can operate one while we do maintenance on the other and it allows a little bit more flexibility going forward with treatment options

[0:06:10] all right thanks for the info the next large water supply project that we are actively working on is the concho river water supply project this one was adopted several years ago our permits there's two necessary permits that we need with the state of texas dcq to be able to move forward with this project one is a discharge permit and the green star you see on the map is our wastewater treatment plant um we are apply we've applied for a permit and received admin completion but it would discharge at the end of that black line that you see it would travel seven to eight river miles following the green path where the city owns an additional property where the orange star is where we would take it out and pipe it back to the water treatment plant in the yellow star our water treatment plant is a part of the cip that you saw earlier you saw you know 60 plus i don't i don't quite remember the millions of dollars tied to it but the upgrade to that facility to where we could treat by microfiltration and other more modern technologies today versus our conventional surface water treatment plant so it would produce a better water quality but the other permit is for the water to be able to follow that green path and for the city to maintain ownership from where we put it in to where we take it out today if we were to just discharge it it'd become waters of the u.s and therefore we have no ownership further downstream both of those uh permits or our applications are admin complete and so just working through the regulatory process and that can take some time but we are actively working through that so how all these projects stack up is for the next 50 years the blue graph or the blue bar that you see is the full allocation of hickory the red is the reliable safe yield from

[0:08:14] ohiv and so during the drought of record this is what we can rely on ivy from the little green line that you can see in between red and orange is what we can safely rely ultimately from south contra river but it's the south contra river system between twin buttes nasworthy and the river itself from nazworthy to where our treatment plant is so it's a very small reliable yield because twin buttes has ultimately gone functionally dry to where we can't get water from twin buttes into nasworthy and then finally the orange bar that you see would be once we get the concho river water supply project online and how that stacks up with projections and demands as we move through the out year so it is very critical that we move forward with the contra river water supply we don't have a time frame on those permits being no ma'am there the state doesn't yeah they don't give you an exact timeline and then finally for the last water supply project that we are still actively working on is the partnership so we do have the long-term water agreement with fort stockton holdings between the city of midland abilene and ourselves and then you see the breakdown between each city and how those are being how those water supply contract is being allocated switching now from water supply to the lake nasworthy sewer project so this is to ultimately increase the capacity at the airport and the lake now is where the area take lift stations offline so that we can continue to develop and expand in that area the texas historical commission has approved the alignment so we have passed that regulatory step so to speak and this is um the path from the lake nasworthy or i can show it on the next slide

[0:10:18] so the blue line you see this portion is what we do have um thc approval on we are still working through some other legal issues in this area due to private property issues but for the the backbone and the important critical component and path uh to getting from the airport in lake nazareth the area to chadburn street has been approved by the historical commission let me go back so we are in final design right now and the final design is is is due november 10th um and so that is when we will have final design plans and then we would start putting that out for bid um either at the end of the year the first part of 2023 to begin the construction of that pipeline so we are looking within the next year or so to begin construction on that project when would it officially be available for use uh that would depend it is probably a two-year construction window at least would be online before then no ma'am no it there could be parts downstream closer to chadburn which isn't where our needs are our needs are at the furthest extent of this line which is the airport in lake nazar the area but ultimately you have to have the full system in place so it isn't like our need is halfway in the middle of that project it's at the very end so we do have to start to identify a timeline and that's key yes once we can ultimately get it out for construction now we are seeing supply chain issues with pvc pipe and pumps and motors and it's the world we live in today but we could see some delays there but ultimately once we get a contractor on board i think we're making the next big step to hopefully lining out that timeline to a more definitive time frame

[0:12:21] for everybody to be aware of questions for allison at this point or comments for her no continue the last one i have is just an update um the last time i spoke to you all a year ago about the customer service inspectors i was requesting additional personnel and so we've now been a year since that last meeting since that request and wanted to give you an update of kind of how that has progressed uh we were able to hire three additional employees we already had reallocated one employee to be a dedicated csi um and be the administrator of this program and to kind of lead this effort so i can say as of april 30th we have four licensed customer service inspectors and that is a tcq license and so one of them does hold a b pat so he could text test a backflow device if he needed to but this is kind of the breakdown of the initial inspections they have completed ultimately there's 474 initial inspections in the in these categories that you see they have been focusing on commercial industries we do have to go to residential every once in a while when there is a water well issue or something that we need to go make sure that the city system is protected from their alternative water source but ultimately we are making progress here they have done a presentation at the san angelo apartment association because as you can see they went to 110 apartments and so a lot of those apartment complexes have a some owners own multiple apartment complexes and so kind of educating the apartment association of what we're doing why we're doing it things that they're looking for and it was very from the feedback i received it was well received and it kind of gave everybody an idea of

[0:14:22] what was going on almost i think about 90 percent of these facilities will have to have a re-inspection because there was a deficiency of some sort whether it's a hose bib vacuum breaker or tnp drain line that on a hot water heater that wasn't air gapped enough those type of things or their feel on their pool was not air gapped just different things they will have to go back for another inspection so it is not a one inspection and done it does sometimes take multiple trips to getting these businesses to full compliance but so far it's been very well received and this was just to kind of provide you all an update with the personnel y'all allocated last year to this program i'll be happy to answer any questions you all may have i didn't see restaurants on that list and since they've been to my place of business i know that they are doing them um it may so these are the ones that they've kind of highlighted like in industry that they're trying to wholly get so to speak um but i can we can look at we haven't tackled restaurants in an entirety it's mine been hit i'll ask him about that this is just the list that they gave me you'll see yeah see where's brendan's right let's go get here allison thank you very much

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