In accordance with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), for retail water providers serving 3,300 or more connections, the City must submit its drought contingency plan every five years. For this term, the City of Fulshear is preparing an update to the current Drought Contingency Plan, adopted August 27, 2019 by Ordinance 2019-1304.
The measures in the drought contingency plan are intended to provide short-term water savings during drought or emergency conditions.
The City currently owns seven water wells that have a combined pumping capacity of 8,511 gallons per minute or 12.3 million gallons per day (MGD). The City's total system storage capacity is 2.35 million gallons ground and .25 million elevated which equates to a firm distribution system capacity of 29.52 million gallons per day.
The purpose of a Drought Contingency Plan is to conserve available water supply in times of drought, water supply shortage, and emergency; maintain supplies for domestic water use, sanitation and fire protection; to protect and preserve the public health, welfare and safety; minimize the adverse impacts of water supply shortages (to include high demand), emergency water supply conditions; and to satisfy the requirements set forth by the TCEQ and other agencies.
A presentation by the City's Water Consultant, FNI, with the draft version of the Drought Contingency Plan is being presented for discussion and input from Council.
The proposed Drought Contingency Plan contingency measures, reductions, and institution/termination triggers are as follows:
At a subsequent Council meeting, City staff will present a final version of the Drought Contingency Plan for consideration of approval by City Ordinance adopting the plan as the current Drought Contingency Plan for the City of Fulshear and will be submitted to the appropriate agencies.