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Clermont pushes reclaimed-water storage, cites consumptive-use limits and existing legislative funds
Summary
City staff described plans for a North Side reclaimed-water storage tank and a southern-site water plant, outlined who would be served and why the projects are part of a consumptive-use conservation strategy; council agreed to package requests for state appropriations but took no votes at the workshop.
Public Works staff presented two related water-infrastructure priorities at the City of Clermont council workshop, recommending additional state appropriations to support a North Side alternative water-storage tank and land acquisition for a planned southern-area water plant.
The projects are framed as conservation and reliability efforts tied to the city’s consumptive-use permit. Public Works staff said the North Side project could include “a 3,000,000-gallon storage tank” to supply reclaimed irrigation water to northern subdivisions and to relieve pressure problems at the end of the system.
The city described the North Side tank as serving the Highland Ranch and Summit Greens areas and said it would feed existing purple reclaimed-water piping rather than stormwater systems. Public Works…
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