2026-09-29 - Oklahoma City Water Utilities Trust
Summary
All votes were voice votes without counts. The captions have a gap of about 17 minutes in the middle that coincides with the executive session.
- Routine items: minutes of the September 15 meeting, a 13-item consent docket (pricing agreements, change orders, contract awards and bills) and one concurrence item, a change order for a Northwest 10th Street project over Grand Boulevard that uses no trust funds, were approved.
- Emergency booster station: the trust approved an emergency construction contract for a temporary booster pump at water booster station 22. The general manager said high summer temperatures caused pressure problems and that the permanent fix cannot start until November's low-flow period.
- Deer Creek clarifiers: plans and specifications for rehabilitating the primary clarifiers at the Deer Creek Wastewater Treatment Facility were approved for bidding, at an estimated cost of about $17.5 million. The work replaces corroded mechanisms, improves catwalk access and adds covers and biological trickling filters for odor control; it is separate from a future expansion that would add clarifiers. See Deer Creek Primary Clarifier Rehabilitation.
- Executive session: the trust went into executive session on a lawsuit by a trenchless pipe contractor against the city and other parties; on return it reported no direction or action.
- Canton Lake release: the general manager reported that a 16,000 acre-foot release requested from Canton Lake began September 17, reached the canal September 23 and ended that morning, averaging over 300 million gallons a day. Lake Hefner had risen from 9.5 feet to about 8.2 feet below full; Draper was 6.3 feet below, Canton 4.6, and others about 4.5. See Canton Lake Water Release.
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01:07Okay, we're good.
01:08>> I turn on.
01:09>> Yeah, when you as soon as he turns
01:44Good afternoon. It is 2011 and we will
01:46call to order the uh
01:49[snorts and clears throat] September
01:5029th meeting of the Oklahoma City Water
01:52Utilities Trust. Next item on the agenda
01:54is the approval of the minutes of the
01:56September 15th meeting. They're in your
01:58packet. Any questions or comments on the
02:00minutes? Seeing none, is there a motion
02:02for approval?
02:10And it passes.
02:12Next up is the consent docket. There are
02:1413 items on the consent docket. There's
02:16some pricing agreements, some change
02:18orders, uh contract awards, um payment
02:22of our bills, number of routine things.
02:25Are there any items that the trustees
02:28would like to pull or uh for individual
02:31consideration or have questions on?
02:33Seeing none, is there a motion for
02:34approval?
02:42And it passes.
02:45Moving to the concurrence docket. The
02:46concurrence docket uh has one item. It's
02:49uh it has to do with a change order for
02:53a project at Northwest 10th over Grand
02:55Boulevard. Uh it does not involve any
02:58aquit funds. Are there questions or
03:01comments regarding the item on the on
03:02the concurrence docket? Seeing none, is
03:05there a motion for approval?
03:15and it passes. Item five is an emergency
03:18construction contract. It has to do with
03:20the water emergency booster station
03:21number 22. Can you update or talk to us
03:24a little bit about that, Mr. Browning?
03:26>> Yes, sir. Mr. Chairman, we um over the
03:29summer with the really high
03:31temperatures, consistently high
03:32temperatures. We had some issues in some
03:35areas um where we had some pressure
03:38issues in some areas. Now, we have a
03:40project to make permanent corrections in
03:43this area, but we can't start that
03:44project until November when we have the
03:47low flow periods of the year. So, we
03:49have it ready to go, but in the
03:50meantime, we needed to uh put a couple
03:53of taps in the line and install a
03:55temporary booster pump to boost the
03:56pressure in that area. Okay. Very good.
04:00Anyh questions regarding the emergency
04:02contract? If not, is there a motion for
04:05approval?
04:12And it passes. Item six are items uh for
04:16individual consideration. The first are
04:18plans and specifications to be
04:19advertised for bids for clarif primary
04:22clarifier rehabilitations at the Deer
04:25Creek Wastewater Treatment Facility.
04:27>> Um good afternoon, Mr. Chairman and
04:29trustees. My name is Kendra Alexander.
04:32Um I just want to provide a quick
04:33overview of what the project entails.
04:36We'll be uh replacing the mechanisms at
04:38the clarifier um just due to excessive
04:41erosion along with improving access
04:43across with the uh catwalks and then
04:46along with um odor control um and which
04:49includes the installation of biot
04:51trickling filters and covering the the
04:53louvers and then we have SDV here too if
04:56you have other questions about the
04:57specifics of the project. So my uh high
05:01level question on this is is will these
05:04uh structures be salvaged and on the
05:06plant re uh build?
05:10>> Could you repeat that Mr. Couch?
05:11>> Yes, the the plan is is scheduled to be
05:14reconstructed at sometime in the future.
05:16And so
05:16>> Yes, sir. Um we do have a project a
05:19future CIP project to add new clarifiers
05:23um with the Deer Creek expansion, but
05:25this is independent of that project.
05:27>> All right. These are being
05:29reconditioned. They, you know, we we've
05:31got a little bit of concrete work that
05:33needs to be done and the mechanisms need
05:34to be replaced in the launderers, things
05:36like that.
05:36>> Yeah, it is sometimes a corrosive
05:38environment.
05:40>> Yeah, we pulled the covers off of them
05:42so it's less corrosive, but we're
05:43actually covering theers as the odor
05:46control means and then putting in the
05:48biotickling filters as Kendra indicated.
05:51>> All right,
05:53any questions uh or comments? What's the
05:56general cost of this?
06:03our our OPCC is about 17.5 million for
06:07this project.
06:08>> Okay.
06:09>> Okay. Thank you. Uh all right. Is there
06:14a motion to approve item 6A
06:25and it passes. Item six is go into
06:28executive session uh regarding a a
06:31lawsuit versus uh BNA Trenchless Systems
06:35versus the city of Oklahoma City and
06:36other parties. Uh is there a motion to
06:39go in executive session? We'll put that
06:41at the heel of the docket.
06:49and it passes. So, we're going to go
06:52into executive session in in a few
06:54minutes. Items and trustees today.
06:59I would like to uh comment that that
07:01longtime uh city leader and and uh uh
07:05engineer and former trust engineer Don
07:08Douglas passed away earlier this week at
07:10the age of 90. Don was a a real fixture
07:13around here for many many years and so
07:15we're sorry to to hear the passing of
07:18Don.
07:21Uh there's nothing else. General
07:23manager's report. Mr. Browning.
07:25>> Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'd like to
07:26give you all an update on the water
07:28release from Canton Lake. Uh we we began
07:32the release on September 17th and we
07:35requested 16,000 acre feet. Uh the water
07:38took a minute to get here. It arrived on
07:40the 23rd.
07:42Uh the Lake Hefner uh elevation or level
07:46was 9 ft below full elevation,
07:509 and a half ft on that day. Uh when we
07:52began the release, uh Canton was 1.8 ft
07:57below full pool. Uh they closed the
08:00gates this morning at 8:00 a.m. Uh it
08:04there will be several more days of water
08:06coming into the canal. Right now, we're
08:08averaging over 300 million gallons per
08:10day coming into the canal. It'll
08:13probably be another week or so before
08:14that flow subsides.
08:16>> But 300 million gallons of water a day
08:17is two days of water.
08:20>> Yes.
08:20>> Well, for Heapner, it's probably three
08:22days of water.
08:23>> Um, yes, it's it's it's not a lot, but
08:25the lake is coming up. Uh, today Hefner
08:28is 8.2 feet. So, it's come up um about a
08:32foot and a half. Uh, Draper is 6.3 feet
08:36below full pull.
08:37Canton is 4.6 feet below full pool. Ato
08:42is 4.4 and McGee Creek is 4.5. So
08:46hopefully this rain that we're supposed
08:49to get this week will help everybody.
08:52What I understand they they've received
08:54quite a bit of rain up around Canton and
08:56along the uh river as well. So maybe all
08:59of that will help keep the river flow a
09:03little higher than normal and we'll get
09:05even more water into Lake Hefner. That's
09:09all I have, Mr. Chairman, except I'd
09:12like to thank our our team for doing
09:14such a good job again during this
09:17agenda.
09:18>> I'm not aware of any citizens that have
09:20signed up to speak, so we will recess u
09:24into executive sessions.
26:26We have returned from executive session.
26:29We are now in open session. There is no
26:32direction or no action that came out of
26:34executive session. Um
26:39we have no further action. We're
26:40adjourned.
26:44Thanks.