I'm sorry, but I just google stuff. You're giving me too much credit. I posted this same link on the Blue Ravine construction thread because it has information about that as well. I'll let the engineers here on this forum hash out what is being done there. It actually says that any upgrades for new development are being charged back to developers so that was a pleasant surprise. There was a big deal made at the last council meeting about asking if the developers had paid their fair share for S50 infrastructure. Fair share and what the total cost is can be two different things.
I actually posted this because I'm not understanding what "other sources" the Folsom Plan Area, FPA, is getting its water from if not the N50 supply.
Sorry, if you review the brand new 2014-25 budget, we are paying for the tunnels to take Folsom Reservoir water to the FPA area.
We are also paying the first millions for the new raw sewage tunnels to bring FPA sewage north -- to put it into our 27" sewage mainline.
By city law, the City Engineer has to certify all resources, infrastructure, development agreements, fees, dedications, and etc.
PRIOR to the passing of the legislation. So far City Engineer has given me a great big ZERO of those blueprints. (Actually I know the pump stations for water or sewer, will be at E. Bidwell and Highway 50). The city also refuses to give me the Bl Ravine blueprints -- which the engineer chided me for not picking up at the city clerk's desk. She turned them over, and the city will not.
As for alternate water supply to OUR American River supply, remember when Utility Director Ken Payne told Ernie Sheldon he was given orders to do FPA engineering for bringing the owner's huge Sacramento River water to his FPA lands? No time records were kept for years on city staff time. BUT, Ken's staff found the cost of water pipes was about $1/4 Billion. Almost immediately council went into secret session and gave that owner our American River water rights, which during a drought are 17,000 acre feet. However, FPA (according to Brown & Caldwell) needs 22,000 acre feet JUST TO START up. Meanwhile the Sac River water can be sold by the land owner to LA -- for huge bucks.
Yup, I have lawsuit documents showing. My favorite is our city attorney suing the rest of the world! Chutzpah! Gotta find a way to post it.
PS, there is NO other water except the American and Sacramento Rivers. Remember city tried drilling a well for the bottling companies? They hit rocks, then rocks. Surprised they didn't hit sewage.