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Watershed officials warn consent-decree costs and project mix are creating risk; committee approves funding and contracts
Summary
Commissioner Greg Eierly told the committee consent-decree capital needs remain large and project spending skews heavily toward wastewater; the committee approved multiple budget and contract actions related to capital work.
Commissioner Greg Eierly told the City Utilities Committee active capital work totals roughly $1.2 billion across about 93 projects and that the department’s remaining consent-decree capital needs total $735 million, separate from the active projects list.
“This is active projects. Approximately 1,200,000,000 or 93 projects, are active presently, and it it is not inclusive of the remaining consent decree capital needs of 735,000,000,” Eierly said.
Eierly highlighted an imbalance in spending: the department reported roughly $5–6 million active on wastewater collections consent-decree work while showing about $57 million in water-distribution projects and…
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