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Consultants tell Brooksville to prioritize pipe maintenance, present $6M pond option for South Brooksville
Summary
Applied Sciences presented a stormwater master plan recommending routine maintenance (sediment removal, pipe replacement) for roughly 100 underperforming pipes and outlined larger capital projects — including a conceptual $6,000,000 pond at Southway Villa — while proposing a stormwater utility to fund ongoing work.
Applied Sciences consultants presented the city’s new stormwater master plan and urged the council to prioritize maintenance of existing conveyances over large capital projects for now. Eley, president of Applied Sciences, told the council the team used GIS-based hydrologic modeling and field visits to assess system condition and simulate design storms, including a 12-inch, one-day (100-year) event.
“About 17 percent of the city’s land area is covered during that [100-year] event,” Taylor Langford, the project manager, said, describing the model outputs and the hot‑spot analysis used to rank locations for action. Langford said field inspections found sedimentation and some collapsed pipe segments across the inventory of roughly 1,000 pipes; he estimated about 100 locations need replacement or cleaning.
The consultants showed conceptual project types and costs. Langford said a Southway Villa site solution (a large downstream pond) carries an estimated price tag of $6,000,000 and would likely require grant or regional cost-sharing; by contrast, many benefits can be achieved with targeted maintenance such as sediment removal and selective pipe replacement. “We think the city of Brooksville is more in need of day‑to‑day maintenance activities,” Langford said.
Council members asked whether models account for future development; Eley said the model represents current conditions (effective to about 2025) and will be available to plug in future developments so permitting and downstream impact analyses can be run by developers and the Water Management District. City staff and consultants discussed funding tools, including a possible stormwater utility (equivalent residential unit, ERU, calculations were presented, with example fee scenarios). The consultants said the study was grant‑funded by FDEP and recommended using the model as a regulatory and planning tool.
The presentation concluded with a recommendation to start an implementation program that pairs routine maintenance cycles with targeted capital projects and to pursue grant opportunities for large‑ticket items. The council thanked the consultants and asked staff to return with priority lists and estimated maintenance budgets.
