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Public Hearing: YES ? NO ? Department: Finance
SUBJECT:
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Commission District(s): All Commission Districts
The Department of Watershed Management Funding Plan for Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) for the years 2021 through 2030 (CIP 2021)
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Information Contact: Dianne McNabb, CFO, and David Hayes, DWM Interim Director
Phone Number: 404-304-4736; 770-414-6240
PURPOSE:
To consider adopting the attached Resolution approving the Funding Plan for the period 2022 through 2025 for the Department of Watershed Management's (DWM) Capital Improvement Plan (CIP), including an initial rate increase of 6% beginning August 1, 2022.
NEED/IMPACT:
DWM's mission to sustain a safe drinking water supply and wastewater collection and treatment system to protect the County's health and watersheds requires that the County's water and wastewater infrastructure be properly maintained, operated, and managed. In addition, the growth and economic development of the County requires the County to continuously develop and renew the water and wastewater infrastructure.
Much of the County's water and wastewater system is beyond its service life, in some cases greater than 100 years old, and significant portions of the system are in need of rehabilitation and capital improvement. On February 23, 2021, the County's governing authority approved DWM's new Capital Improvement Plan for the years 2021 through 2030 (CIP 2021). The CIP 2021 is the culmination of an industry best-practice multi-year effort of modeling, planning and prioritizing. The CIP 2021 has been developed using newly developed computer-based hydraulic models of both the water and wastewater systems, that informed the development of the recently completed Water and Wastewater Master Plan through 2050, which included a documented, detailed, inclusive and data-driven CIP Prioritization Process.
To enable the implementation of the CIP 2021, DWM has also dev...
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