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Consultants outline stormwater utility options, estimate $2.6M annual program cost
Summary
Strand Associates presented a stormwater utility feasibility study showing Georgetown faces substantial infrastructure and regulatory costs and that an impervious-area rate structure would generate about $2.6 million a year at an initial rate of $5.93 per ERU per month.
Strand Associates consultant Mike Wollum reviewed a stormwater utility feasibility study for Georgetown during the March council meeting, saying the city has large maintenance and capital needs and few stable local revenue sources to address them.
Wollum told council members the study models a program budget of roughly $2.6 million a year, and a capital needs list that the team estimated at about $25.1 million. Using an impervious-area approach the consultant calculated an Equivalent Residential Unit (ERU) of about 3,000 square feet of impervious surface and an initial monthly rate of $5.93 per ERU (about $71.13 per year) to generate the modeled revenue. Wollum said the aerial/LiDAR parcel analysis counted roughly 25,519 ERUs across the city (about 11,158 residential…
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