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Bexley staff say earlier sewer study left gaps; city will re-prioritize repairs
Summary
City staff told council that a 2009'2014 sewer system evaluation relied on incomplete, outdated data, missed wet-weather monitoring and omitted records—leading the city to pursue targeted repairs and a new 10-year prioritized construction and capital plan.
City staff on Tuesday told the Bexley City Council that the sewer system evaluation study the city relied on in the last decade contains important methodological gaps and that those gaps help explain continuing basement flooding and sanitary overflows.
The council heard a multi-part presentation from public-works staff explaining that the 2009'2014 sewer system evaluation (SSES) and the associated 26-year improvement plan used outdated baseline flow data, split monitoring into separate phases years apart and did not capture the wet-weather conditions that lead to most inflow-and-infiltration (I&I) problems. "They used a 10-year-old study... they did not use wet weather patterns," the service-team presenter said, citing comparisons with data collected last summer.
Why it matters: The staff said the older study…
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