Title
Quarterly Update on Utility System - Water System
Recommended Action
No recommendation, for information only.
Staff Recommendation
None
Body
The Board has requested a system assessment on a different utility each quarter. This quarter, Jack Richardson, Deputy Utilities Manager for Gas, Water and Sewer, will present an update on the water system. This year’s report is similar in scope and format to previous reports. Primary performance measure dashboard data, with trends and comparisons to national standards and DPU goals (Conservation, Strategic Plan & Budget), are included. Discussion including both the physical and financial condition of the water system sub-systems: Water Distribution (DW), Water Production (WP) and Non Potable (NP) System as well as the overall Water Fund itself are reported. Also included are recent AMT (Asset Management Team) achievements and challenges and some significant planned near term (FY23 & FY24) O&M Goals, Action Items and Major Projects.
The physical condition of each sub-system (DW = FAIR, WP = FAIR & NP = GOOD) are all basically unchanged from last year's report. A major difference is that now the physical condition assessment is calculated using the GWS GIS Asset Management Reporting tool developed over the previous 3 years. These new reports calculate a numeric value based on all individual asset's physical condition and risk assessment compiled into an overall system Condition & Risk Assessment Score. The plan is to track these overall system scores on an annual basis to trend improvement (or deterioration) of the systems over time.
Capital improvements are proceeding as planned and it will be informative to track these numeric values for overall system condition to see the effects of infrastructure improvements on a year to year basis. Additional revenue from the Profit Transfer return agreement continues to benefit the DW system and very low interest State loan program have enabled DPU to devel...
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