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Monroe review of water master plan flags neighborhoods that can’t be served without new tank
Summary
Engineers told the Monroe City Council the city’s water system can meet future demand only with a new upper tank and pipe replacements; councilmembers discussed limiting development in pressure-starved zones and seeking USDA support for a new well.
Monroe City leaders were told Tuesday that the city’s existing water system will struggle to serve projected growth unless the city builds a roughly 1,000,000-gallon storage tank and replaces aging distribution lines.
Parker Vercimak of Jones and DeMille Engineering presented Monroe’s 2023 Culinary Water Master Plan and an updated hydraulic growth model. Vercimak said Monroe holds “strong water rights overall,” including about 7.5 cubic feet per second (CFS) from Monroe Creek for irrigation, 1 CFS tied to the existing well, and 3 CFS attributed to Cold Spring, though the city currently can access less than one-sixth of the Cold Spring right. He said a planned new well, contingent on USDA funding, would consolidate well and Cold Spring rights and would “unlock” the…
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