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Utilities director says Fort Lauderdale on track to meet most consent‑order milestones; new amendment will focus on inflow and infiltration
Summary
Utilities Director Albert Carbon said 71 of 76 consent‑order milestones are complete and outlined $30 million in I&I contracts (33 miles lined, 2,500 laterals). Staff plan a second amendment to the consent order to address continued inflow and infiltration and will bring details to the commission this spring.
Albert Carbon, the city’s Utilities Director, gave a detailed briefing on infiltration and inflow (I&I) at the Jan. 13 workshop. He defined the terms on the record: “Infiltration is the groundwater that seeps in through cracks and leaks in the pipes… Inflow is… surface water, that rainwater, the canal water that comes in from the surface.”
Carbon told commissioners the George T. Lohmeier wastewater treatment plant currently…
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