19 - PLANS FOR ENGINEERING UNDERSERVICED AREAS

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memorandum TO: City Council John Godwin, City Manager FROM: Shawn Napier, P.E., Director of Engineering, Planning & Development SUBJECT: UNDERSERVICED AREAS DATE: June 16, 2015 BACKGROUND: City staff was asked to investigate the areas inside the City Limits that did not have water or sewer service. The two attached maps show the current limits of water and sewer lines. The map also shows the City Limits (red dash line). The orange area of the map is the CCN map (Certificate of Convenience and Necessity), this map depicts the area in which the City of Paris can legally provide water and sewer service. An unusual circumstance exists because the Lamar County Water Supply District's CCN map overlaps with the City's map. The overlap area includes the orange portion (outside Loop 286) on the attached map up to the Loop 286. That means both the City and Lamar County Water Supply District can provide water service in these areas. STATUS OF ISSUE: The primary focus was on southeast Paris because some City residents on private 42nd Street did not have water or sewer services. The first water phase proposes to get water service to these residents. Both maps show a phase I for water and sewer. These are the first steps in getting utilities to Cox Field. The water line is proposed to start this summer and the sewer the following summer. The water line project involves extending water from Dawn Dr. and Loop 286 south to Old Clarksville Road. It will then cross the Trail de Paris to 42nd St. SE (private road). From this point it will cross over into pasture land paralleling US 271 South on the north side and end after going under US 271 at 4200 Clarksville Street (Animal Health Center). The proposed sewer project proposes to construct a sewer line from the southeast sewer lift station that is located southwest of the Loop 286 and US 271 interchange. The proposed line would then proceed east under Loop 286 and continue east going just north of the baseball fields and intersect US 271 approximately 500 -feet east of 4200 Clarksville Street (Animal Health Center). From this point the sewer line will continue north to the intersection of Old Clarksville Road and 47th SE Street. The proposed sewer line will then continue north on the east side of 47th SE, it will then proceed to the southeast corner of the Eastgate Subdivision. A sewer lift station is in the corner of this subdivision. The proposed gravity sewer line would make the lift station no longer necessary. The next few segments of the sewer line have not been completed but will proceed through Paradise Estates Subdivision providing sewer to the residents. The proposed gravity sewer line will also allow for two lift stations in the Morningside Subdivision to be taken out of service and flow into the southeast lift station.