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Council adopts amendment to comprehensive plan to incorporate updated water and wastewater master plans
Summary
The City Council adopted Ordinance 25S010 to amend Schertz’s comprehensive plan to include updated water and wastewater master plans; staff and consultant summary identified near-term and long-range projects, pressure and capacity shortfalls, and locations prone to sanitary sewer overflows.
The Schertz City Council on March 4 adopted Ordinance 25S010, amending the city’s comprehensive plan to incorporate updated water and wastewater master plans developed with consultant Lockwood, Andrews & Newnham.
City staff and the consultant summarized the master-plan process: they updated hydraulic models for water and wastewater, reviewed existing infrastructure against Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) rules and city standards, evaluated future growth using land-use assumptions and a 30-year planning horizon, and identified projects to address current and future needs.
Key findings discussed in the presentation included: several areas where existing pressures fall below the city’s internal standard of 35 psi (though TCEQ’s minimum is 20 psi), and about 21 locations prone to sanitary sewer overflows with approximately 26,000 feet of gravity mains that could experience surcharge under current or future demand. Staff said projects were categorized as near-term (to 2030), mid-term (to 2035) and long-term (to 2050) and include pipe upsizing, operational improvements and targeted extensions to meet anticipated growth.
The presentation noted that the master plans include projects required even without growth (repairs, aging infrastructure) as well as projects driven specifically by population and employment growth. Staff said land-use assumptions and distribution of future growth were inputs to the modeling effort; council asked whether the 2030 project list accounted for an anticipated 2030 population projection (discussed as about 55,000 in the presentation) and staff confirmed project identification incorporated projected growth patterns.
The motion to approve Ordinance 25S010 came from Council Member Brown, was seconded by Council Member Macaluso, and passed 7–0.
Why this matters: Incorporating the water and wastewater master plans into the comprehensive plan sets a long-range roadmap for infrastructure investments, influences the capital improvement plan and informs funding strategies for water and sewer system upgrades to serve expected population and economic growth.
Speakers listed in this article: City staff presenter (identified in the record as Miss Woodley), consultant team Lockwood, Andrews & Newnham, Council Member Brown (mover), Council Member Macaluso (seconder).
