Water and wastewater capital improvement plan
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All right, so we'll keep it moving. And so now we're looking at our water and wastewater capital improvement plan. Um as as you can see at $1.3 billion, that is about half of our total five-year CIP. And so this is a large capital improvement program, and so we break that out by project type. So overall capital improvements, their renewal and replacement, Um connection wastewater connection and water connection and then some of those notable high ticket items are listed. Below
the table.
And and and just to tie light, this is kinda like when we're talking about the this slide with with staff. Uh I I just look at as you get growth and you've got to make these investments, you can't just build it for the five percent you got coming in. You're building for ten years down the road, fifteen, twenty years down the road and those pipes in the ground, you don't wanna like put 'em in, take 'em out. Sometimes you depending on how much growth you get, you can't oversize it either 'cause of um issues of maintaining it and and making it used effectively. So it's
it's a difficult thing but um It just if you're gonna be f at a certain point when you have to expand, these expenses come in and there is gonna be a blip on the screen to when you're spending more money. So maybe we kept on growing with others others didn't or maybe we just hit certain points when others didn't, but classic example of You can't just run it like a regular growth to add on. It's not like you're a home builder and you're gonna add a home on because you got a new customer. You gotta build a whole facility that's gonna take care of thousands
of people. Uh and I think we got some extra costs in there too because of clean water standards that have been put in place that drive off that cost too. Okay.
Yep. And it's um with this capital improvement plan, it's important to note that the four rate the four year rate study does account for this program and it's also accounting for projecting um for some future debt to also um handle and finance. portions of this improvement plan. And all of that's been factored into the rate study.