City of Clinton
Fiscal Year 2013
Sewer Rate
Recommendations
Committee of the Whole
April 24, 2012
Long Term Control Plan (LTCP)
EPA Clean Water Act
Limit Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs)
DNR Enforcement of CSO Policy
Development of Long Term Control Plan
Consent Order Negotiations
25 Year Implementation (2012-2037)
$100,000,000 - $145,000,000 in Debt
Capital Improvement Plan
Capital Improvement Plan (CIP)
CIP is collection of projects from LTCP
organized by year, cost
Includes one-time projects, annual
maintenance expenditures
Fiscal Year 2013 Projects
25th Avenue Pump Stations (Storm, Sanitary)$7,000,000
Margaret Street Pump Station- $3,000,000
Sewer Operations Center & Lab- $5,000,000
Beaver Slough Trunk Sewer Maintenance/
Rehab- $3,250,000
On-Going Sanitary/Storm Projects- $800,000
Drainage Projects- $650,000
Pump Station Telemetry & Control System$800,000
Liberty Avenue Sewer Separation - $2,178,823
17th & 18th Avenue North Sewer
Separation (FY 2012)
June 1, 2012 – April 30, 2013
Sewer Separation & Street Construction
17th Avenue North (2nd St to 4th St)
18th Avenue North (Garfield St to 8th St)
$1.65 Million (CDBG, GO Bond, Sales Tax
July 1, 2013 – June 30, 2014)
Sewer Lining, Manhole Rehab
Permanently Close CSO
$700,000
Beaver Channel Trunk Sewer
June 1, 2012 – December 31, 2013
Clean & Repair 54” Combined Interceptor
Quantify Flow to Verify Long Term Plans
$3.25 Million Budgeted
SRF Loan or Operating Budget (TBD)
Margaret Place Pump Station
June 1, 2012 – June 30, 2015
Request Bids for Design in June, 2012
Upgrade Storm Sewer Pump Station
Permanently Close Overflow Gate (Per IDNR)
Eliminate Chance for Sanitary Sewer Overflow
Provide Capacity for Future Separation
Projects
$3,000,000 SRF Loan
Sewer Rehab NW of Bluff Blvd.
June 1, 2012 – December 31, 2022
Springdale Drive, South 14th St, 13th Ave N
Yearly Projects ($300,000 per year)
$3,000,000
Inflow & Infiltration Mitigation
Sewer Lining & Manhole Rehab
Sewer Operating Costs
25th Avenue North Pump Stations
June 1, 2012 – December 31, 2014
New Storm & Sanitary Sewer Pump Stations
Permanently Close Overflow Gate (Per IDNR)
Eliminate Chance for Sanitary Sewer Overflow
Provide Capacity for Future Separation Projects
Replace Old Force Main from Pump Station
$7.0 Million Budgeted SRF Loan
25th Avenue Sewer Separation
July 1, 2014 – December 31, 2018
Begin Preliminary Design This Year
Sewer Separation & Street Construction
River to 3rd Street
Main Avenue to 30th Avenue North
2-3 Phases
$8,000,000 SRF Loans
Operations Center & Laboratory
July 1, 2012 – July 31, 2016
Begin Preliminary Design in 2013
$500,000 Planning & Design Loan 2013
Construction To Begin In 2014
Project Completed In 2015
Project to Replace/Relocate Laboratory
Disinfection at Treatment Plant
July 1, 2013 – July 31, 2018
Project Stipulated in Amended Consent Order as
well as NPDES Permit
Effluent Monitoring Study July 2013-2014
Facility Plan to IDNR 2015
Final Plans/Specs to IDNR 2016
Construction Awarded 2017
Project Completed 2018
$5,000,000 SRF loan
20th Avenue North Pump Station
July 1, 2014 – December 31, 2017
Begin Preliminary Design Next Year
Upgrade Sanitary Sewer Pump Station
New Interceptor from 18th Ave N to 20th Ave N
New Force Main From 20th Ave N to 1st Ave
Develop Design Based on Flow Metering
Provide Enough Sanitary Pump Capacity and
Force Main Capacity for No Overflow
Prepare Basin for Sewer Separation
~$6,000,000 SRF Loan
20th Ave North Sewer Separation
January 1, 2018 – December 31, 2022
Detention Pond Construction
Sewer Separation into Car Barn Ditch
19th Ave N to Main Ave (West of 3rd St)
19th Ave N to 22nd Ave N (East of 2nd St)
3 Phases
$12,000,000 SRF Loans
Bluff Blvd Pump Stations
July 1, 2016 – December 31, 2019
Two New Sanitary Sewer Pump Stations
From Bluff Blvd to Beaver Interceptor
Separated Sanitary from NW of Bluff
Presently Recombines SE of Bluff
Project Reduces the Amount of Combined
Sewer to 1st Avenue Pump Station
$10,000,000 SRF Loans
1st Avenue Pump Station
July 1, 2017 – December 31, 2020
Upgrade Combined Sewer Pump Station
New Force Main to Beaver Channel
Develop Design Based On
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NW Bluff I & I Work
New Bluff Blvd Pump Stations
Upstream Pump Station & Separation Work
Future Sewer Separation in 1st Avenue Basin
$8,000,000 SRF Loan
Basin 006 Sewer Separations
January 1, 2019 – December 31, 2037
Bluff Blvd to River; 7th Ave. N to 8th Ave. S
New Storm & Sanitary Sewers
Street Reconstruction
Separate to Extent Necessary to Meet
EPA/DNR CSO Policy
Multiple Phases
$40,000,000? SRF Loans
What Goes Into Sewer Rates?
Operation Costs
Dike Maintenance
Treatment Plant Operations
Collection System
Street Cleaning
Utility Billing
Reserve Funding
Debt Service
At least 6 loans active in FY13; first P&I payment
on Treatment Plant Loan
Capital Costs Not Borrowed
How Much Does It Cost?
Operations
Reserve Funding
Debt Service
Capital
$3,626,244
$80,000
$5,471,584
$2,250,000
Revenue must cover Operations & Debt,
plus 10%
Millions
How Much Does It Cost?
25
20
15
10
5
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2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Operations
Reserves
CIP
Debt
Rate Recommendations
Current
Rate
Proposed
Residential/C1
$6.79
$8.21
Comm. 2
$7.469
$9.031
Comm. 3
$8.827
$10.673
Comm. 4
$10.185
$12.315
Comm. 5
$11.543
$13.957
Industrial- BOD
$71.80
$92.92
Industrial- SS
$78.36
$101.50
Industrial- NH3
$230.73
$278.49
FY13
Rate
Increase of
20.70% for FY13
for all users
Residential/
Commercial per
100 cubic feet
Industrial per 100
lbs.
Rate Recommendations
Recommending a one-year rate structure
until other equitable revenue options
considered
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Stormwater Utility (May 8th COW)
Franchise Fee
Penalty Increase
Commercial Class Structure