On Thursday, June 16, the Hutto City Council held their mid-month meeting. The council discussed the 2022 Water and Wastewater Master Plan along with the Pavement Assessment and Management Plan.
Wade Benton gave an update on where they city stood with the current activity.
“The development activity continues to increase in Hutto. I think we are on track for a similar year that we had last year in terms of the number of permits and activities,” said Benton.
Dave Christiansen, a water/wastewater engineer then addressed the council and presented a short-term water system analysis plan that included;
■ Task A, a short-term water system analysis which includes the service extension request (SER) mentioned and the existing water system to come to see where we are at today.
■ Task B, an update to water demand projections; looking at updated growth projections for the fiveyear, 10 year and 25-year planning periods while developing projections to fit the timeframes;
■ Task C, a complete rebuild and calibration of the hydraulic model of the water system;
■ Task D, involves hydraulic analysis, using the hydraulic model and developing a capital improvements plan for the five-year, 10-year and 25-year planning periods; and
■ Task E, includes developing a master plan and presentation.
Final drafts of the water and wastewater master plans are expected to be released this fall.
Ian Toohey, from Garver, who serves as project manager for the wastewater master plan, then addressed the council.
“Our project was broken into two phases, phase 1 and phase 2. Our phase 1 focused on we really had to build the network model from scratch. Ringing in all the pipelines, manholes, details and sizes and incorporating those and digitizing those into a network,” said Toohey.
Phase 2a consists of modeling and city review, and phase 2b presents the comprehensive Water/Wastewater masterplan to include population and flow projections, facility performance testing model update, design criteria, hydraulic evaluations, plant evaluation and reporting.
“The engineers wanted to update you, just to let you know where they were, even though they are not of the final point, but just to give you an update, particularly about the SERs,” said Hutto interim city manager Isaac Turner.
For a more in-depth report, visit the city’s website at https://huttotx.new.swagit.com/ videos/175752.
