The city is updating several master plans that will help guide future city planning for water usage and related infrastructure in the decades to come.
Officials said the updates, which were approved throughout 2022, will serve as a map to help ensure that residents receive adequate water services as the city population increases in the next 20 years.
Utilities Department Director Michael Thane said all of the plan updates will help city staff examine the existing state of infrastructure used to render some utility services.
Additionally, master plan updates give the city’s utility department an opportunity to ascertain what needs improvement or expansion, Thane said. In March, the city was forced to evaluate its existing wastewater infrastructure following heavy rains and ongoing issues that caused a wastewater treatment plan in the city to become overwhelmed and release excess effluent into Brushy Creek.
