The document is an agenda for a town hall and open house meeting hosted by a water authority. The agenda outlines that the meeting will discuss the authority's purpose and funding sources, current surface water sources, future water sources and their costs, how costs will be paid, projected rate increases, and will include exhibits/displays. It provides details on current and planned water infrastructure projects, their anticipated costs, projected bond requirements, and estimated future water rates.

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TOWN HALL AND OPEN HOUSE
October 22, 2015

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TONIGHT’S AGENDA
• Authority’s Purposes & Source of Funding
• Surface Water Sources Today
• Where Will Our Water Come From
Tomorrow and How Much Will It Cost?
• How Will We Pay for it?
• Where Are Rates Going?
• Q&A and Visit Exhibits/Displays

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Authority’s Purposes• Acquire and provide surface water
and groundwater;
• Facilitate compliance with Subsidence
District rules;
• Reduce groundwater withdrawals;
• Promote the conservation,
preservation, protection, recharge,
and prevention of waste of
groundwater, and of groundwater
reservoirs or their subdivisions; and,
• Control of subsidence caused by
withdrawal of water from those
groundwater reservoirs or their
subdivisions.

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Source of the
Authority’s Funding

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Where does the Authority get its surface water today?

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WHERE WILL OUR
WATER COME
FROM IN THE
FUTURE?
AND HOW MUCH
WILL IT COST?

8. THE LUCE BAYOU PROJECT
TRINITY RIVER PUMP STATION
LUCE BAYOU
MAIN CANAL
POTENTIAL SUPPLY
500 MGD INTO
LAKE HOUSTON

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NORTHEAST PLANT EXPANSION
WHCRWA will have 82.42 MGD
treatment capacity in the new plant

10. SECOND SOURCE PROJECT

11. • Joint WHCRWA/NFBWA
• Projected 96” lines
• North – South Project approximately 9 miles
• East-West Project approximately 30 miles
• Acquiring approximately 600 easements

12. Anticipated costs -- $361 Million
 Construct additional 75 miles of
transmission and distribution lines
 Connect an additional 52 MUDs
WHCRWA 2025 DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM

13. 2015 $ 50,000,000
2016 70,000,000
2017 205,860,000
2018 365,000,000
2019 136,000,000
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PROJECTED FUTURE
BOND REQUIREMENTS

14. WHERE ARE RATES GOING?

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WHCRWA ESTIMATED RATES
Ground Water Surface Water
GRP Rate Rate
Current $2.05 $2.45
2016 2.25 2.65
2017 2.45 2.85

16. ALL AVAILABLE SOURCES OF FUNDING
• Refunding of bonds at lower
interest rates and paying off
high interest bonds to obtain
significant savings
• TWDB funding and Open
Market Bonds at relatively
low interest rates will help
keep costs down
• Rate increases are inevitable;
planned to be gradual and
incremental

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Please join us at the display areas