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Bend presents preliminary findings from collection system master plan update; few near‑term capacity hotspots identified
Summary
City of Bend staff told the community building subcommittee that a 2024–25 update to the collection system master plan shows the system overall in good condition, with localized near‑term capacity concerns and a 20‑year horizon that will require larger investments tied to growth in the south and east.
City of Bend Chief Operating Officer Russ Grayson told the Community Building Subcommittee on Aug. 11 that the city is updating its collection system master plan (CSMP) and coordinating that work with a separate Water Reclamation Facility (WRF) facility plan update.
"We did strategically make that decision to split them apart," Grayson said, describing the two parallel efforts and the plan to merge findings into a single capital improvement plan (CIP).
The project team said the CSMP update will: refresh land‑use and population assumptions used for hydraulic modeling; evaluate existing infrastructure for condition and capacity; develop a 20‑year CIP for the collection system; recommend operations and maintenance changes; and align sewer projects with a rate strategy for council consideration.
"The purpose of the updated CSMP is to update the existing assumptions around land use and population growth, economic forecast, etcetera," Lisa Cameli, project manager for the CSMP…
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