Parks and Public Works presents 2024 accomplishments and 2025 priorities: water upgrades, tree planting, storm response and ASR pilot

The Parks and Public Works Committee heard a divisionwide update on 2024 accomplishments and 2025 priorities across water, urban forestry and stormwater, parks and streets, fleet and facilities, and wastewater operations.

Water division superintendent Matt Hedger highlighted main replacements and emergency repairs, automation upgrades and water‑use reductions. Hedger said the crew replaced a downtown main and repaired a major transmission main on Reinegg Road that released roughly 1.4 million gallons and took more than 12 hours to isolate and repair. Irrigation efficiency work led by a staff member reduced seasonal irrigation use by about 30%, which Hedger said equates to roughly 7,600,000 gallons saved compared with the prior year. The division also automated a downtown pressure‑reducing valve (PRV) and replaced an aging pump at the winery booster station; Hedger said the department lost about 45,000,000 gallons to leaks in 2024 and is…