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Trappe council reviews Rauch proposal to replace Well 4 with new Well 4R
Summary
At a May 7 workshop the council and town engineer reviewed Rauch's plan to install Well 4R, which would replace Well 4 and add production capacity but would not resolve the town's storage shortfall and does not meet a DRRA well requirement; councilors asked to review 30 days of production data before making capacity decisions.
President Schmidt called the Trappe Town Council workshop to order at 4:30 p.m. on May 7. Council members Jeremy Newnam, Michael Sullivan, Rose Potter and Walter Chase attended, along with Town Administrator Erin Braband, Water Superintendent Shawn Lane, Town Engineer Katherine McAllister and Town Attorney Lyndsey Ryan.
During the meeting the council and the town engineer reviewed a proposal from Rauch to install a new well, described in the record as Well 4R, to replace the existing Well 4 and add water production capacity. The transcript states that the Rauch proposal "does not address the storage capacity issue and still requires Lakeside to build a water tower," and that it "does not satisfy one of their well requirements in the DRRA." Councilors said they want 30 days of production numbers reviewed before deciding how much additional capacity to credit the town once the well is operational.
The council did not take a formal vote on the well proposal during the workshop. The record shows next steps are to continue evaluating the proposal with production data; no staff assignment or deadline is documented in the transcript.
