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City engineer warns of three stormwater failures; council told cost estimates total $358,764
Summary
Peachtree City’s city engineer briefed council on three urgent stormwater failures — Parkgate detention‑pond pipe damage, a Braylen Court pipe collapse near a home foundation, and a Southwick collapse — and reported quotes totalling $358,764 for the two quoted projects.
Peachtree City’s city engineer told council that three stormwater infrastructure failures have accelerated to an emergency level and need prompt repair. The city has received quotes for two of the projects and plans design work for the third; staff said the work would be funded from the stormwater utility and would consume a substantial portion of the department’s annual pipe‑replacement budget.
Dave Warkowski, city engineer, described failures at 27 Parkgate (a pipe through a detention‑pond dam showing internal corrosion and piping), Braylen Court (a pipe collapse and sinkhole near a home foundation) and 214 Southwick (a collapsed pipe and large sinkhole). “It looks like it’s been chewed up and spit out,” Warkowski said of the Parkgate pipe, and he noted the pipes are metal and have been in place “since the eighties and nineties.”
Warkowski said the city received two quotes for the Parkgate pond restoration; the lowest was $313,140. For the Braylen Court collapse the city received one quote for $45,624. The Southwick repair was in design at the time of the meeting. Warkowski reported a combined total of $358,764 for the two quoted projects and said funding will come from the stormwater utility annual allocation for pipe replacement. He also described plans to issue an RFP for on‑call stormwater contractors to improve response times for future emergencies.
Council members and staff discussed procurement procedure and documentation for emergency work. The city attorney said council should document and justify emergency procurement decisions in the staff memo if the public‑works bidding process is bypassed; staff agreed to present quotes and written justification and, if possible, place the expenditures on a future agenda rather than act retroactively.
Warkowski said the stormwater program has been stretched by multiple manager transitions, state audits, and a significant project load; the city is conducting a stormwater utility rate study and expects to present results and recommended rate changes to council after the study completes. Several council members pressed for clear documentation of the emergency rationale and for the quotes to be brought to council for formal consideration at the next available agenda.
No council vote was required at the meeting; staff said they would return with formal documentation, procurement justification, and recommended contract actions for council review.
