Water System Capital Improvements Plan - May 2022

The City of Rollingwood contracted K Friese + Associates, Inc. (KFA) to perform a city-wide Water System Capital Improvements Plan (CIP) to review the operation of the current system, identify potential issues, review fire flow availability, examine causes for repeated water main breaks, and other issues. This plan provides recommendations for potential improvements to address these issues and to guide the City's development of a CIP. 

The project team began by gathering as-builts and updating the City’s GIS data for the water system. KFA met with the City’s Public Works Department staff and Crossroads, who services the City’s water system, to further update the GIS mapping and learn about known issues in the system, such as water main breaks, valves that did not work properly, and pressure reducing valves (PRVs) that did not function properly, among others. KFA also performed site visits to field identify surface features and potential issues. Once the data collection was completed, KFA modeled the water system to identify areas in the system that had high or low pressures, pipes with excessive velocities, and locations with insufficient fire flows. 

Following the data collection and modeling efforts, the project team developed project concepts to address the existing water system concerns. This final report includes summary sheets and cost estimates for these project concepts.

The final Water System Capital Improvements Plan was approved on May 19, 2022.