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Officials warn of water, sewer capacity risk; staff to prepare conservation ordinance and moratorium contingency
Summary
City staff warned the Board of Mayor and Aldermen that drought and wastewater treatment imbalances have created short‑term capacity risk and asked the board to authorize preparation of a conservation ordinance and a contingency moratorium plan.
Dan Allen (staff member) told the board the city faces a compound water and sewer challenge: an ongoing regional drought that has held groundwater low, persistent inflow and infiltration (I&I) in sewer mains, and biological imbalances in the wastewater plant’s oxidation ditches.
“We are very, very, very concerned,” Allen said during a technical briefing. He explained that improvements the city has made to manholes, mains and laterals so far cover a small portion of the system (he said roughly 3% of manholes have been rehabilitated) and that a large program of I&I repairs would cost in the range of $200 million to $250…
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