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Council orders review of water/wastewater master plans after consultant flags modeling and capacity issues
Summary
Consultant Dave Stewart told council he found calculation errors and omissions in the city’s water and wastewater master‑plan work and recommended the city recover and reuse a 2015 WaterCAD model and run a focused technical review. Council directed the city manager to convene experts and report back within weeks.
Counsel and staff moved quickly after a technical presentation from consultant Dave Stewart, who told the Lago Vista City Council that portions of the city’s water and wastewater master plans contain calculation errors, missing modeling artifacts and capacity assumptions that city staff should verify.
Stewart told council that a WaterCAD hydraulic model created for the city in 2013–2015 exists and that city engineers should obtain and update it rather than re‑creating baseline data from scratch. He said key growth‑and‑capacity…
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