{"id":72357,"date":"2018-06-07T16:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T20:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/?p=72357"},"modified":"2018-06-07T16:00:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T20:00:55","slug":"city-utilities-plan-to-address-aging-water-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/2018\/06\/07\/city-utilities-plan-to-address-aging-water-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"City Utilities plan to address aging water infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/City_of_Fort_Wayne_new_top_banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"407\" height=\"149\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/City_of_Fort_Wayne_new_top_banner.jpg 407w, https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/City_of_Fort_Wayne_new_top_banner-300x110.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\" \/><br \/>\nNews release from Fort Wayne City Utilities:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Delivering Reliable Service to Customers, Preparing for the Future<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n(June 7, 2018) &#8211; City Utilities today announced plans to address aging water infrastructure, specifically to reduce the number of water main breaks.<br \/>\nWith more than 1,400 miles of pipe, City Utilities is averaging more than 300 main breaks a year. So far this year the utility has had nearly 150 main breaks in the first five months of 2018. Main breaks can disrupt business and restaurant services and occasionally cause schools to close. They also create traffic problems and inconvenience residents.<br \/>\nUsing data that identifies water mains that are most vulnerable, City Utilities has developed a five-year plan to replace 70 miles of water main in areas that have experienced a total of more than 1,500 water main breaks through the last several years.<br \/>\nUp until the year 2000, funding for water main replacement was minimal. Without an aggressive replacement program, many of the pipes in the water main system aged past their useful life. This plan will address those issues by replacing pipes that have been determined to be most likely to fail.  The replacement program will improve water system reliability and strengthen neighborhoods.<br \/>\nAs a not-for-profit water utility, funding for City Utilities improvements comes from the fees collected from customer usage. The fees paid through utility bills go toward drinking water treatment, daily operation and maintenance, and infrastructure improvements within the water system. The water utility does not receive any funding from property taxes, and, in fact, makes an annual Contribution in Lieu of Taxes to the City of Fort Wayne.<br \/>\nTo make the planned improvements in the water system, City Utilities will invest revenue from a proposed rate increase.  Adjusted rates for water use will be phased in over a five-year period with the first step of the increase to become effective in 2019. The rate proposal would increase the monthly bill for a typical customer using 4,000 gallons of water by $1.34 in 2019 followed by increases of $1.43 per month in 2020, $1.53 per month in 2021, $1.57 per month in 2022 and $1.67 in 2023 for an average increase of approximately 5.8% annually.  Even with the proposed rate adjustments, rates paid by City Utilities customers will still be lower than about half of the communities in Indiana.<br \/>\nFollowing local approval, the five-year rate plan will be submitted to the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) for review.  City Utilities will be presenting information about funding the main replacement program in a series of local meetings between now and the end of June.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3><div class=\"ngg-related-gallery\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/cityoffw\/92357.jpg\"\n\t\t\ttitle=\"City of Fort Wayne Utilities Director Kumar Menon during the Light Lease press conference on June 1, 2009.\"\n\t\t\tclass='thickbox' rel='849b67329f71245da75a2f55e927af1e' data-image-id=\"2012\" data-src=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/cityoffw\/92357.jpg\" data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/cityoffw\/thumbs\/thumbs_92357.jpg\" data-title=\"2009\/06\/02: Kumar Menon\" data-description=\"City of Fort Wayne Utilities Director Kumar Menon during the Light Lease press conference on June 1, 2009.\">\n\t\t\t<img title=\"2009\/06\/02: Kumar Menon\"\n\t\t\t\talt=\"2009\/06\/02: Kumar Menon\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-image-id=\"2012\"\n\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/cityoffw\/thumbs\/thumbs_92357.jpg\"\/>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/cityoffw\/98213.jpg\"\n\t\t\ttitle=\"Ozzie Mitson (Business &amp;amp; Legislative Liaison), Mayor Tom Henry and Kumar Menon (City Utilities Director) during the July 1, 2009 press conference.\"\n\t\t\tclass='thickbox' rel='849b67329f71245da75a2f55e927af1e' data-image-id=\"2741\" data-src=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/cityoffw\/98213.jpg\" data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/cityoffw\/thumbs\/thumbs_98213.jpg\" data-title=\"2009\/07\/01: Ozzie Mitson, Mayor Tom Henry, Kumar Menon\" data-description=\"Ozzie Mitson (Business &amp;amp; Legislative Liaison), Mayor Tom Henry and Kumar Menon (City Utilities Director) during the July 1, 2009 press conference.\">\n\t\t\t<img title=\"2009\/07\/01: Ozzie Mitson, Mayor Tom Henry, Kumar Menon\"\n\t\t\t\talt=\"2009\/07\/01: Ozzie Mitson, Mayor Tom Henry, Kumar Menon\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-image-id=\"2741\"\n\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/cityoffw\/thumbs\/thumbs_98213.jpg\"\/>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/in\/142681.jpg\"\n\t\t\ttitle=\"Indiana Speaker of the House Pat Bauer and Representative Win Moses, Jr. hold a press conference in Fort Wayne to talk about possible violations within the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission. 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Photo taken September 17, 2015.\"\n\t\t\tclass='thickbox' rel='849b67329f71245da75a2f55e927af1e' data-image-id=\"8791\" data-src=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/cityoffw\/toast.jpg\" data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/cityoffw\/thumbs\/thumbs_toast.jpg\" data-title=\"2015\/09\/17: Mayor Henry toasts\" data-description=\"Mayor Henry toasts residents of the Sycamore Hills neighborhood to celebrate the flow of city water into their area. 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Photo courtesy of the City of Fort Wayne.\"\n\t\t\tclass='thickbox' rel='849b67329f71245da75a2f55e927af1e' data-image-id=\"8961\" data-src=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/cityoffw\/tmayor_baals_on_machine_aug_23_1939.jpg\" data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/cityoffw\/thumbs\/thumbs_tmayor_baals_on_machine_aug_23_1939.jpg\" data-title=\"1939\/08\/23: Mayor Baals on machine\" data-description=\"Mayor Harry Baals on a machine at the P. L. Brunner Water Pollution Control Plant on August 23, 1939. 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Photo courtesy of the City of Fort Wayne.\"\n\t\t\tclass='thickbox' rel='849b67329f71245da75a2f55e927af1e' data-image-id=\"8962\" data-src=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/cityoffw\/tmayor_baals_w_shovel_aug_23_1939.jpg\" data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/cityoffw\/thumbs\/thumbs_tmayor_baals_w_shovel_aug_23_1939.jpg\" data-title=\"1939\/08\/23: Fort Wayne Mayor Baals with shovel\" data-description=\"Mayor Harry Baals with a shovel at the groundbreaking for the P. L. Brunner City of Fort Wayne Water Pollution Control Plant on August 23, 1939. 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Photo courtesy of the City of Fort Wayne Utilities.\"\n\t\t\tclass='thickbox' rel='849b67329f71245da75a2f55e927af1e' data-image-id=\"10544\" data-src=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/2020-city-utilities-construction-photos\/tHessen_Cassel_stormwater_pipe.jpg\" data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/2020-city-utilities-construction-photos\/thumbs\/thumbs_tHessen_Cassel_stormwater_pipe.jpg\" data-title=\"Hessen Cassel stormwater pipe\" data-description=\"The Hessen Cassel stormwater pipe construction. 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