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Resolution 18-36 Modifying the City's Capital Facilities Improvement Plan by Adding an Additional Water Infrastructure Project on Molalla Avenue between Beavercreek Road and Highway 213
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RECOMMENDED ACTION (Motion):
Adopt Resolution 18-36 modifying the City's Capital Facilities Improvement Plan by adding an additional water infrastructure project on Molalla Avenue between Beavercreek Road and Highway 213.
BACKGROUND:
In 2012, the City adopted Ordinance No. 12-1001, an update to the Oregon City Water Distribution System Master Plan (WMP) that includes the City's Water Capital Facilities Improvements Plan (CIP), pursuant to ORS 223.309(1 ). The CIP lists the capital improvements projects that the City wishes to construct and that may be funded through revenues generated by system development charges. The City's CIP list may be modified "at any time" pursuant to ORS 223.309(2).
In 2016, the City and Clackamas River Water (CRW) retained Murraysmith as engineering consultant to perform a Joint Engineering Study to analyze and prepare recommendations for adjustment of service area boundaries, withdrawal of CRW territory within Oregon City, and other related tasks. The Joint Engineering Study resulted in finding that the current CIP list of projects did not appear to address an existing operational and capacity issue within the City’s Upper Zone.
In 2017, the City retained Murraysmith to evaluate capital improvements to address efficiency, system capacity, and condition of the water distribution system to provide an updated CIP project list that addresses the existing operational and capacity issues found during the Joint Engineering Study. The draft updated CIP project list report by Murraysmith is anticipated to be submitted to the City in by the end of 2018 which will include the recommendation for a 24-inch waterline in Molalla Avenue from the Mountainview Pump Station to Glen Oak Road.
Murraysmith submitted to the City a Technical Memorandum dated O...
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