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City engineer recommends $900,000 work to restore required pressure for Skyway Gardens development
Summary
An engineering consultant told the City Council workshop that Skyway Gardens on the city’s south end cannot meet TCEQ minimum pressure requirements under its current connection and recommended moving roughly 450 customers to a higher pressure plane and building a dedicated transmission line.
An engineering consultant told the City Council workshop that the Skyway Gardens subdivision on the city’s south end lacks sufficient water pressure under its current connection to the lower-hill pressure plane and recommended a network realignment and new dedicated piping.
Andy Visalia, an engineer with Jacob & Martin, said the lower-hill pressure plane “will not meet the 35 PSI criteria” required under TCEQ rules for distribution pressure. He recommended moving the Skyway area and about “450 customers plus or minus” from the lower-hill plane to the Sol Ross (east) pressure plane and installing a dedicated transmission line and isolation (gate) valves to hold the pressure boundary.
The consultant described the physical fix as a series of gate-valve closures to separate pressure planes, plus a new dedicated…
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