Title
LOTT Clean Water Alliance: Financial Planning Overview
Report
UAC Deliverable:
Briefing only
Staff Contact:
Justin Long, Finance Director, LOTT Clean Water Alliance
Lisa Dennis-Perez, Environmental Planning and Communications Director, LOTT Clean Water Alliance
Background and Analysis:
LOTT staff will brief the UAC on development of the Capital Improvements Plan and related financial planning.
The LOTT Clean Water Alliance provides wastewater treatment services for the urban areas in north Thurston County, including Olympia, Lacey, and Tumwater. LOTT is governed by a Board of Directors comprised of one elected official from each of the three cities and Thurston County. LOTT owns and operates a large centralized treatment plant - the Budd Inlet Treatment Plant, along with a satellite reclaimed water plant, three major pump stations, sewer interceptor pipelines, and reclaimed water distribution pipelines. The cities own and operate extensive networks of sewer pipelines and pumps that feed into LOTT's interceptor trunk lines and carry flows to LOTT's treatment facilities.
LOTT is responsible for providing wastewater management services for our growing local communities, and is required by the state Department of Ecology (Ecology) to undertake annual planning to maintain the existing system and accommodate increasing capacity needs. To ensure sustainability of the existing system, LOTT has developed a comprehensive Asset Management Program to inventory and assess all systems. The program allows LOTT to plan capital projects to repair or replace assets at the appropriate point in their life cycle to prevent equipment and system failures.
LOTT's Budd Inlet Plant is one of the most complex plants on Puget Sound because the treated effluent is discharged into Budd Inlet. Budd Inlet has been designated as a water quality impaired water body, and LOTT is held to extremely high standards by Ecology through our National Pollutant Discharge Elimination Permit...
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