The Brownwood City Council met Tuesday morning, July 13, and authorized eHT to perform a Water Hydraulic Model on the City of Brownwood’s water system.

Over the years the City has installed new water towers, replacing water distribution lines, made improvements to Roanoke pump station, and installed numerous large water taps. These improvements were implemented with little to no hydraulic modeling to ensure the proposed improvements would be effective. The City currently has three large water issues that need to be addressed:

• the Southwest tank (located by 3M) is not being utilized because of the current condition of the existing booster station and water age issues that occur
• the Walnut tank has water aging issues that are ongoing
• the ongoing inaccuracy of the BCWID master meter.

City staff recommended the Water Hydraulic Model be completed to help prevent similar problems that are currently being experiencing. This model will assist engineers in making better recommendations on improvements such as eliminating the water age problems in the distribution lines, increasing flow to areas that have larger meters, determining if a meter can be installed in an area, improving the master meter readings, and in developing a strategy to correct the Southwest tank and Walnut tank deficiencies.

The $40,000 cost will either be paid through budget surplus funds or funds from the American Receovery Plan, and a decision will be made at a later date.