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Council directs staff to pursue 50‑foot reservoir plan for May Valley after multi‑hour briefing
Summary
Following a multi‑hour technical briefing, Moses Lake City Council directed staff to pursue a 50‑foot‑diameter reservoir plan for the May Valley area sized using a 4,500‑unit, 50/50 irrigation planning assumption.
Moses Lake City Council gave staff policy direction on the size of a planned water reservoir to serve the May Valley area and associated development agreements.
City staff and consultants presented technical and policy tradeoffs for reservoir sizing: the volume of a tank must cover fixed “dead” and operational storage, fire suppression requirements (the fire marshal specified 2,750 gallons per minute for four hours, totaling 660,000 gallons for the site), Department of Health standby storage (a stated minimum of 200 gallons per connection), and equalizing storage to manage peak‑hour shortfalls versus…
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