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Pasco City workshop will take up irrigation code change, PWRF pond construction and Butterfield plant upgrades
Summary
Pasco’s May 26 workshop will focus heavily on water: a proposed code change that could lower developers’ irrigation fees for xeriscaping, supplements to engineering contracts for the Process Water Reuse Facility (including construction oversight of 300,000,000-gallon storage ponds), and design work for upgrades at the Butterfield Water Treatment Plant, which supplies about 80% of the city’s potable water.
Pasco City will bring several water infrastructure items to its May 26 council workshop, city communications coordinator Alyssa Warner said in an agenda preview.
The workshop agenda includes a proposal to amend the city code to let developers of business properties pay reduced irrigation water-rights fees if they implement low-water landscaping, such as gravel yards or xeriscaping, a change framed as an incentive to reduce outdoor water use.
Two separate agenda items involve the Process Water Reuse Facility (PWRF). One would expand the professional services agreement with RH H2 Engineering to provide construction support for irrigation improvements at the PWRF’s land treatment system. A second supplement would continue RH H2 Engineering’s inspection and general oversight for construction of winter storage ponds designed to hold 300,000,000 gallons of irrigation water.
Warner noted the PWRF operates year-round, converting process water from food processors into irrigation water, but that reuse is limited to fields planted with certain crops that help clean the water, which increases the need for irrigation infrastructure and winter storage capacity.
The agenda also includes an update to the professional services agreement with Jacobs Engineering Inc. to design upgrades to the intake and electronic control systems at the Butterfield Water Treatment Plant, work described as an early component in replacing the Butterfield facility. The preview says the Butterfield plant still provides about 80% of Pasco’s potable water.
All three items are scheduled for discussion at the May 26 workshop; members of the public may comment during the meeting and the session will be streamed on Facebook and YouTube.
