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Water board approves $62,500 water asset-management task order with LJA
Summary
The Water Resources Board approved a $62,500 task order with LJA to create a Water Asset Management Plan for the municipal water system, modeled on a prior sewer plan required by TDEC and intended to support capital planning and asset-criticality mapping.
The Water Resources Board voted to approve a $62,500 task order with LJA to develop a Water Asset Management Plan for the city’s water system. Speaker 3 told the board the work is modeled on a sewer asset-management plan that TDEC required for the city to receive the final 20% of ARP grant funding.
Staff said the plan will consolidate historical GIS records and operations data to identify critical assets, assign consequence and likelihood scores for failure, and help prioritize long-term capital improvements. “We finished that and maintenance has seen a lot of benefits from pulling all of that information together,” Speaker 3 said in explaining why the city wants the same approach for water that it used for sewer.
Speaker 3 pointed to a dashboard built for CCTV inspection records as an example of a practical tool generated by the sewer plan: it visually highlights where crews have recorded video inspections in the last two to five years and where none exist. Board members asked whether water lines would be camera-inspected; staff responded that water mains will not be cabled but that age, location and installation data will be compiled to grade assets.
Speaker 7 moved for approval and Speaker 1 seconded; a voice vote followed and the chair announced the motion carried. The contract authorization directs staff to finalize a task order for LJA at the stated fee to produce the water-side asset-management plan and associated deliverables.
The vote was procedural and no formal dissent was recorded; the approved work will feed the city’s capital-planning process and give operations staff a prioritized list of near-term projects.
