STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Sustainable
AGENDA DATE: May 28, 2025
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S): Outside City Limits
DEPARTMENT: Dallas Water Utilities Department
EXECUTIVE: Dev Rastogi
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Authorize (1) a Standard Utility Agreement with the State of Texas, acting through the Texas Department of Transportation, for water pipeline encasement extensions in FM 548 from Windmill Farms to State Highway 205; and (2) the receipt and deposit of funds in the amount of $68,377.73 in the Dallas Water Utilities Fund from the Texas Department of Transportation for reimbursement of eligible construction, inspection, and project management costs for the project - Estimated Revenue: Dallas Water Utilities Fund $68,377.73
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BACKGROUND
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is planning to complete pavement and drainage improvements to FM 548 from Windmill Farms to State Highway 205. The improvements will include expanding the existing pavement width in areas where Dallas Water Utilities Department (DWU) has existing raw water transmission pipelines that supply water to the East Side Water Treatment Plant in Sunnyvale, Texas. To ensure that these critical water supply pipelines are protected and meet TxDOT right-of-way utility crossing standards, it is necessary to extend the existing encasement around these pipelines where they cross under proposed pavement.
TxDOT has designed the paving and storm drainage facilities for their FM 548 project, and DWU has designed the water pipeline encasement extensions. DWU will utilize an existing pipeline construction contract to complete the encasement extensions. The work by DWU will consist of extending the existing pipeline encasements for 72-inch and 84-inch diameter concrete pipelines where they cross FM 548, in advance of paving and drainage improvements by TxDOT. Extending the existing encasement will help protect the pipelines from failure and in the case o...
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