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Title: INVESTING IN COLUMBUS: YOUR UTILITY RATES AT WORK


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INVESTING IN COLUMBUSYOUR UTILITY RATES AT
WORK
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Department of Public Utilities Serving You
  • Providing drinking water to more than 1.1 million
    people
  • Operating three 24-hour water treatment plants
  • Dublin Road Water Plant
  • Hap Cremean Water Plant
  • Parsons Avenue Plant
  • Operating two 24-hour wastewater treatment
    plants
  • Jackson Pike Wastewater Treatment Plant
  • Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plant
  • Maintaining our current sewer and water lines
  • More than 6,200 miles of sanitary, storm and
    combined sewer pipes
  • More than 4,200 miles of water lines
  • Maintaining more than 50,000 streetlights

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What Utility Fees Provide
  • Sewer, water and stormwater utility rates also
    provide funding for capital improvement projects
    that benefit Columbus neighborhoods
  • Much of Columbus sewer and water infrastructure
    is old, some of it 100 years, making replacement/
    rehabilitation needs critical

4
Improving Your Neighborhood, Quality of Life
  • Benefits from capital
  • improvements include
  • Reduction of sewer backups and overflows
  • Surface water quality improvement
  • Replacement of aging water lines to reduce line
    breaks and improve water pressure
  • Insuring adequate water supplies for a
    still-growing community
  • Solving flooding issues in neighborhoods built
    without modern stormwater drainage systems
  • Providing streetlights to increase safety

5
2008 Bond Package Thank You!
  • Voters approved Columbus Bond Package (Issues
    14-19) in November 2008
  • Approval authorizes the city to borrow funds for
    capital improvement projects that benefit
    neighborhoods
  • Among the six issues, one was for 552 million
    for sanitary sewer projects and another was for
    525 million for water projects
  • The package allows Columbus to borrow money at a
    lower interest rate, thanks to its AAA bond
    rating
  • Borrowing at a lower rate helps reduce the amount
    of water and sewer rate increases. Passage will
    save Columbus taxpayers and water/sewer
    ratepayers a total of 28 million
  • Revenue from water and sewer bills pay off the
    bonds that support the capital program

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Examples of Sewer Improvements
  • Sewer Rehabilitation
  • through Trenchless
  • Technology
  • This sewer in Clintonville was relined through
    cured-in-place piping, creating a new pipe
    within a pipe
  • Process has been used in many neighborhoods
    across Columbus
  • It reinforces the structural integrity of the
    sewer, extends its life and helps seals out
    excess water at a lower cost than digging
    trenches and installing new pipes

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Examples of Sewer Improvements
  • Sewer Tunneling
  • Newer technology is being used to increase
    sanitary sewer capacity with less disruption to
    residents than the traditional open-trench method
  • This tunnel was constructed in the northeast
    Franklin County area (Big Walnut Extension)

8
Wet Weather Management Plan
  • Our 40-Year, 2.5 billion Wet Weather Management
    Plan (WWMP) will
  • Reduce sewer overflows
  • Reduce basement backups
  • Result in cleaner waterways
  • Create jobs for construction of projects
  • Plan will bring Columbus into compliance with two
    consent orders with the State of Ohio (in 2002
    for Sanitary Sewer Overflows and 2004 for
    Combined Sewer Overflows)

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WWMP Projects
  • The plan includes hundreds of projects including
  • Significant improvements to our two wastewater
    treatment plants that will increase treatment
    capacity by 50 by 2010, expanding from 330 to
    480 million gallons a day
  • 48 neighborhood sewer projects, including Driving
    Park, Maize-Morse and Clintonville
  • Projects in 12 Priority Areas
    (Barthman-Parsons Castle-Williams Cleveland
    Ave./Ferris Rd. Clintonville-Whetstone Early
    Ditch/Binns-Wicklow Miller/Kelton Ave.
    Northwest Alum Creek/Weldon-Lakeview Plum Ridge
    Preston Road Sullivant Avenue West 5th Avenue
    Winslow)
  • Three large-diameter tunnels
  • For more information, please visit
    utilities.columbus.gov/DOSD/CleanRivers

10
Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plant
  • A new Headworks Facility at Southerly is among
    the WWMP improvements Mayor Coleman and City
    Council dedicated its completion in 2007
  • Construction of a new Effluent Pump Station began
    in 2008

11
Jackson Pike Wastewater Treatment Plant
  • Improvements are also underway at the Jackson
    Pike Wastewater Treatment Plant to maximize
    treatment capability and to comply with
    ever-increasing environ-mental regulations

12
Water Supply Improvements
  • Projects to ensure adequate water supplies are
    underway such as this new water tower on Taylor
    Road
  • Other projects planned include a new upground
    reservoir in Delaware County, which will provide
    central Ohio with a sufficient supply of drinking
    water for decades to come

13
Water Distribution System Improvements
  • Older water mains are being replaced to reduce
    line breaks, reduce leakage and to improve water
    pressure -- like this project in the West Broad
    Street area

14
Water Treatment Plant Improvements
  • Photo shows a new sodium hypochlorite facility at
    the Dublin Road Water Treatment Plant
  • Other upgrades are planned for the Hap Cremean
    and Parsons Avenue water plants

15
Citywide Street Lighting
  • The Power Section (Division of Power and Water)
    installs and maintains streetlights in
    neighborhoods across Columbus

16
Decorative Street Lighting
  • More decorative streetlights such as the one
    shown in this north side community are available
    through a petition and property assessment process

17
Municipal Power Upgrades
  • The Division of Power and Water provides
    electricity to a limited service area including
    downtown and several surrounding neighbor-hoods
  • Recent substation upgrades in the Victorian
    Village and Childrens Hospital areas

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Questions?
  • To report a Columbus public utility
  • service or capital improvement need
  • or for more information, please call
  • 311 or 645-3111

Michael B. Coleman, Mayor
Tatyana Arsh, P.E., Director
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