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Staff recommends $18.4M phased water plan to add redundancy, council concurs
Summary
Town staff and consultants recommended — and council indicated concurrence with — a two‑phase, $18.4 million water‑system upgrade plan that adds 3 million gallons of ground storage at Riverstone and later a second delivery point near the Town East elevated tank for redundancy.
Consultants and town staff presented three alternatives Jan. 13 for upgrades to Sunnyvale’s water distribution system; council members indicated support for the staff‑recommended Alternative 1, a two‑phase program that prioritizes near‑term pumping capacity and later adds a second delivery point for system redundancy.
Corey Wilkinson (Garver, consultant) and Town Engineer Matt presented technical findings: Sunnyvale’s existing firm pump capacity is about 6.5 million gallons per day (MGD) while projected build‑out demands require greater firm capacity. The Riverstone pump station currently feeds the system and sits adjacent to a roughly 500,000‑gallon ground storage tank whose…
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