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Columbia Water outlines 2025 priorities: consent-decree work, pipe replacement, Canal Recovery and biogas project
Summary
Assistant City Manager Shealy and staff told the committee Columbia Water will keep permit compliance top of its 2025 work, seek EPA time extensions on long-lead projects, continue targeted pipe replacements, and advance a $62 million Canal Recovery supply project and a biogas public-private partnership.
Assistant City Manager Shealy told the Health, Social and Environmental Affairs Committee that Columbia Water’s core priorities for 2025 are maintaining regulatory compliance for drinking water, wastewater and stormwater permits and continuing capital work to reduce sanitary sewer overflows.
Shealy said the utility has applied to EPA for two force majeure time extensions tied to events beyond its control — the 2015 flood and COVID-related delays — and that negotiations “have been very fruitful” so far. She said those potential extensions would push some of the longest-lead consent-decree deadlines out roughly 18–24 months, “that would put us out into around 2031 for completion.”
On operations, Shealy described an elevated number of water-main and service-line breaks after January…
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