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City water staff outline wildfire resilience and firefighting water supplies; upgrades focus on storage, pumps and backup power
Summary
City staff briefed the committee on how Spokane's water system would perform in large wildfire or high-demand events, described storage and pump capacity, and outlined upgrades — new tanks, expanded boosters, and backup generators — intended to improve firefighting and domestic supply resilience.
City water staff presented an overview of system capacity and wildfire resilience, noting system design tradeoffs between daily operational storage and the deep-storage volumes needed for large-scale fire suppression.
The nut graf: staff said Spokane's system has multiple tanks and booster stations, redundant pressure zones and roughly 5 million gallons of storage online plus several new tanks brought into service in 2023–2024. Staff described recent and planned projects — well rehabilitations, new boosters and permanent backup generators — intended to preserve…
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