Public Hearing: YES ? NO ? Department: Public Works - Roads & Drainage
SUBJECT:
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Commission District(s): All Districts
Proposed Stormwater Utility Fee Increase
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Information Contact: Peggy Allen, DDPW
Phone Number: (404) 294-2878
PURPOSE:
To approve the proposed Stormwater Utility fee increase. The resolution and supporting documentation are attached.
NEED/IMPACT:
Since the Stormwater Utility rate increase resolution passed in 2023, Roads and Drainage has been able to repair, rehabilitate, resolve, or improve over one thousand six hundred stormwater infrastructure issues in their backlog. The inventory continues to age and needs ongoing maintenance, upgrades, and/or replacements. The cost of ongoing maintenance continues to increase. The successful reduction of the backlog has afforded the opportunity to address recommendations in the Stormwater Master Plan, exceeding an estimated $500,000,000, including the development of a Stormwater Capital Improvement Plan (CIP). The County is moving forward with an Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) Water Infrastructure Financing Program (CWIFP) loan, in an amount not to exceed $30,626,859 to repair and rehabilitate county dams. Additional funds are required to adequately maintain the existing stormwater infrastructure, support the required activities of the County's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit (NPDES), fund the CIP to pro-actively repair or upgrade critical stormwater infrastructure, and repay its share of the CWIFP loan.
The current stormwater infrastructure inventory includes more than 4,500 critical pipes an estimated 714 of which are in poor or inoperable condition. The current dam inventory includes 12 dams that are regulated by the Safe Dams Program and all need repairs. The fee increase is critical to continue stormwater infrastructure maintenance operations, carry out CIP projects, and execute dam rehabil...
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