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CITY COUNCIL MEETING
MINUTES
NOVEMBER 9 , 1988
The City of Wylie City Council met in called session on
Wednesday, November 9 , 1988 at 7 : 00 p.m. in the City
Manager ' s Conference Room in the Municipal Complex . A
quorum was present and notice of the meeting had been posted
in the time and manner required by law. Those present were
Mayor Pro-Tem John Akin, Councilmembers Jim Swartz, Ortie
Messenger , and Bud Naish, City Manager John Pitstick,
Assistant City Engineer Ron Homeyer , and Secretary Candi
White.
Mayor Pro-Tem John Akin called the meeting to order and
Councilman Messenger gave the invocation .
DISCUSSION ON WASTEWATER COLLECTION SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS:
City Manager John Pitstick explained that the city is under
a Texas Water Commission mandate for wastewater collection
improvements , and that the city has done a major phase of
the improvements , as well as needing to expand the
wastewater treatment plant from 800 ,000 gallons a day to
2 ,000 ,000 gallons a day. He also said the improvements at
Century Business Park were well underway. Mr. Pitstick told
the council that there were two major problems with the
wastewater collection system; being the pump and haul and
overcapacities , and that the major problems must be
corrected by January of 1990 . Mr. Pitstick added that the
initial plan called for improvements in several areas and
would cost approximately $1,800 ,000 .
Assistant City Engineer Ron Homeyer said that the original
plan was to build a lift station farther south of the
Century Business Park, but due to the lack of development in
that area, the easiest and least expensive solution was to
build a lift station on Hwy 78 in the Business Park and
connect as short a distance as possible to the Steel Road
area to take care of all the pump and haul there. He also
said that if the city tied into the Steel Road area, 80% of
the pump and haul demand and load would be eliminated .
Assistant City Engineer, Ron Homeyer stated that the
original plan years ago , did not show the lift station, but
showed a lot of gravity collection lines , which are not
affordable. He also said that if even if the original plan
had been used, collecting Newport Harbor , Presidential
Estates and Southfork Mobile Home Park by gravity, to a
point near FM 544 for a lift station and pumping over to an
existing collection line that goes to the treatment plant ,
would be expensive and did not address the additional
capacity that would have to be built into the line from the
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Public Works Facility to the treatment plant to handle the
additional flow that the lift station by 544 would create.
Councilman Naish asked if staff had asked San Antonio
Savings , owners of the Birmingham Farm land, about paying
for part of cost to put sewer lines across the property.
Assistant City Engineer said that they had agreed at one
time to put the sewer line across the property, but he
didn ' t think they had offered any money to assist the
funding . Councilman Naish felt that it would be better to
invest in a permanent sewer line, rather than a temporary
lift station to service the lots in Newport Harbor and
Presidential Estates , which was costing $347 ,000 .
City Manager John Pitstick explained that the city had
accepted Newport Harbor and Presidential Estates without
sewer and must accept the responsibility for those
subdivisions . He said the bottom line was to get out of the
pump and haul business , but the city must also make
improvements to expand sewerage capacity to avoid any
spills . Mr. Pitstick asked Carl Reihn with North Texas
Municipal Water District to make a statement .
Mr . Reihn explained to council that NTMWD was willing to
work with the City of Wylie in any way, but he wanted the
options understood . He said that he went to the Texas Water -�
Commission with the City on several occasions , and TWC has
become very upset because Wylie has not done the things they
said they would do. Mr . Reihn said that some bad decisions
were made by the City in the past , but the state wants the
problems fixed and had set a deadline of October , 1988 for
the City to present an acceptable plan for collection system
improvements . Mr. Reihn felt that the Texas Water
Commission was becoming impatient , as the City of Wylie had
put them off repeatedly. He also explained that the plan
for Southfork and the Park lift stations would not be good
enough for the future, but council would have to decide what
the City could afford to provide for the future.
Mr . Reihn also said that financing of the improvements could
be a problem and that it would be impossible to qualify for
a grant , as there was not enough time.
Councilman Naish asked about the feasibility of the City of
Murphy tieing into Wylie ' s treatment plant . Mr . Reihn said
that NTMWD was working with Murphy to tie into Wylie' s
treatment plant in the future , but that it wouldn' t help
immediately. He also said that Murphy would have the same
type of capital investment to tie in as they would to build
a new plant . Mr. Reihn also said that a decision needed to
be made regarding the funding of the improvements so that a -ft,,
plan could be presented to TWC that would be acceptable.
Mr . Reihn felt that it would be much more effective for the
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council to meet with the commission itself , rather than city
staff and TWC staff meeting first .
City Manager John Pitstick told the council that Steel Rd .
pump site would take care of 80% of the pump and haul , but
there was still a problem with Newport Harbor and
Presidential Estates . Two plans were presented by Jim Parks
with North Texas Municipal Water District . Mr . Parks
explained to the council that the Rush Creek lift station
flows into the Park lift station, and that the capacity of
the Park lift station is 380 gallons per minute, with 1150
gallons per minute pumped at peak periods of the day. He
also said that it would cost $74 ,000 to buy some extra wet
well storage, which would take excess flow during
approximately one hour of peak time, but peak times are
lasting longer than one hour . He added that banking
everything on one hour peak time was not realistic.
Mr . Parks explained that a better way to correct the problem
would be to use the 18" line that drops down at Twin Lakes
into the station and run a 10" line up to intersect the
existing 15" line to another short 15 " line directly into
the treatment plant. Mr. Parks said the estimate to use the
above technique was $326 ,000 , excluding the $74 ,000 that was
estimated originally.
The second problem explained by Mr . Parks was the Southfork
lift station. He said $22 ,000 would buy new pumps , and it
would cost $15 ,000 to abandon the lift station, which would
increase the flow capacity from 80 gallons per minute to 140
gallons per minute. Mr . Parks said again , the problem was
with the peak time, in which the flow was 500 gallons per
minute. He explained that another problem was to get pumps
to handle 140 gallons per minute, or larger pumps to carry
larger capacity, a larger wet well would also be required .
The option discussed by Mr . Parks was to build a new lift
station and pumps and new 8" pvc lines to FM 1378 and
intercept the line that would serve Presidential Estates and
Newport Harbor and upgrade that line from 6" to 8" and 10"
lines. The cost being $310 ,000 .
City Manager John Pitstick said that there was a half
million dollar difference in cost on both changes , which
would build some capacity even at peak times . Mr . Reihn
felt that TWC would not accept the plan as originally
presented , as it would not hold peak times , and that the
above was the only alternate plan .
After much discussion, Mr . Reihn said he would call Austin
before the scheduled meeting time of December 6, 1988 , and
work it out where two or three councilmembers could actually
make the presentation to the Texas Water Commission, rather
than relying on the staff to do so . City Manager John
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Pitstick added that staff would work through some financing
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and phasing and get all figures together , and call two or
three sessions with council before going to Austin.
There being no further business , a motion was made to
adjourn with all in favor . _
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