Title
Resolution - A Resolution of the City of Mansfield, Texas, Authorizing the City Manager to Enter into an Interlocal Cooperative Waste Water Transportation Agreement Between the City of Mansfield, Texas and the City of Grand Prairie, Texas
Requested Action
Staff requests that City Council approves the attached resolution, authorizing the City Manager to enter into the interlocal cooperative waste water transportation agreement.
Recommendation
Staff recommends that City Council approves this resolution authorizing the City Manager to enter an Interlocal cooperative waste water transportation agreement with the City of Grand Prairie.
Description/History
In the past all of Mansfield’s waste water effluent has been collected through the Walnut Creek basin interceptor and delivered to the Trinity River Authority (TRA) for treatment at the Central Regional Waste Water Plant.
In 2006, we participated in a study with the TRA, Grand Prairie, and Midlothian conducted by Freese and Nichols. This study looked at the opportunity for a regional waste-water treatment plant on the Mountain Creek drainage basin. Following this study Grand Prairie, Midlothian, and Venus became members of the TRA Mountain Creek Regional Waste Water System (MCRWWS).
In August of 2015, the City Council approved a contract for Mansfield to become a member of the TRA MCRWWS as development (Somerset) had presented itself, and growth is anticipated to continue in the Reece Branch basin.
Justification
Grand Prairie is currently under construction of their south sector waste water system with a 48” sewer line that will transport a portion of Grand Prairie’s waste water effluent to the MCRWWS treatment plant.
Through this interlocal agreement, Grand Prairie agrees to provide Mansfield with capacity to meet a maximum flow of 3 million gallons a day within their 48” sewer interceptor. This capacity will allow Mansfield to send all the sewer effluent from the Reece Branch Basin to the MCRW...
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