 Welcome everybody to the Westridge Avenue area, Water and Sewer Improvement Community Design Meeting. If you are not already needed, please mute yourself. You can ask your questions after the presentation is finished. Your project manager is Dina Johnson. We also have our engineering design consultant, Brian Shareeb, on this call if you have any questions. And if you can see the chat message, if you can open that up. It has, this is also in the PowerPoint. You can see how to get to this page on the Fort Worth website. And on that website, we will post a PDF of this PowerPoint presentation as well as this video of the meeting. Okay, I'm going to hand this over to Dina Johnson. Good evening everyone. Thank you for attending this community design meeting for Westridge Avenue area, water and sewer improvements. We have an agenda. We're going to start with introduction, project overview, project area frequently asked questions and timeline. I'm Dina Johnson, project manager, my telephone number, 817-392-87866, Dina.Johnson at FortWorthTexas.gov. The design engineer consultant is Danaway, Brian Shareeb is the project manager. FortWorth to prioritize replacing water and sewer lines that have high risk of failure. The risk of failure is determined actually based on the available data, which include water, many break history, leak history, CCTV inspection. This is where we install the camera inside the pipe to tell us the condition of the pipe. Edge of the line, line material, let's service lines and cast iron lines. This project will replace the cast iron water lines on Westridge Avenue, Ridgeway Street, Edge Hill Road. To address frequent main breaks, FortWorth water management has committed to replace a minimum of 20 miles of the cast iron pipe every year. And currently we have about 55 miles of cast iron mains at various stages of design for replacement in fiscal year 2023 and beyond. This project is in Council District 3. Construction will impact the Ridgeley Area Neighborhood Alliance, Ridgeley Hills Neighborhood Association and Plum Valley Place HOA. Sanctuary sewer mains and water mains will be replaced in an area bounded by Cambui Boulevard to the north, Brown-Evron Road to the east, West Viquari Boulevard to the south, and Edge Hill Road to the west. Landmarks include Ridgeley Country Club Village at Cambui, Primrose School of Fort Worth West, and homes as well as apartment complexes. We will be replacing water and sewer on Westridge Avenue from Cambui Boulevard to Westridge, and also water and sewer on Edge Hill Road from Sea Land Lane to Westridge Avenue. Water replacement on Ridgeley Place 400 feet from Westridge Lane to the west. Also water replacement on Ridgeway Street from Westridge Avenue to Winthrop Avenue East. And finally we have water line replacement in an easement north of Ridgeway Street from 160 feet north of the Ridgeway Street Westridge Avenue intersection to about 550 feet southeast. Water will be turned off during construction for about 15 to 30 minutes only. This is when the service is transferred from the existing line to a temporary water line. And when we transfer the service from the temporary line to the new line, those switchovers will be done during the day. The contractor will knock on the door and let customer know when the water will be turned off. The transfer normally takes about 30 minutes for a house or business. The temporary water line is to ensure that you are not without water during construction. In the summer month, the continuous flow keeps the water from becoming stagnant in the above the ground line. During the winter month, water must be continually flowing through the temporary line to keep the line from freezing. Customers also should keep their faucet dripping. The bill for your water usage while you are on the temporary line is based on the average previous month usage. That's how it's calculated. Construction will be in the street and easements. The Fort Worth water need to access your property. We will contact you. And if we need an easement from you, a city land agent will contact you as soon as possible. Sanitary sewer service will be not interrupted at any time. A new sewer clean out will be installed at the property or easement line. The sewer clean out provide cruise easy access if a backup or lockage occurs. When we get to the construction phase of this project, the inspector and the contractor, which is you're going to meet later on in another meeting will work with the residents and businesses who need a driveway access during active construction hours. We will have a traffic control in place prior to start of construction. If your side of the street is closed on your scheduled trash collection day, the contractor will take the trash and recycling cards to the opposite side of the street. So the trash collection vehicle will pick it up. We will have lane closures during construction and signs will be posted to alert motorists. Construction hours normally between 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. And if requested by the contractor, it will be from 9 to 4 or 5 p.m. on a Saturdays. This project is in the design phase. We'll have more information after the contractor is approved by the city council. We will host another pre-construction meeting with the contractor and the inspector also will be there to set up the start date for the construction and we will create a schedule for the street that will be impacted during construction. We will host a community construction meeting before the contractor breaks ground. For more information, you can go to www.fortworthtexas.gov and type in the project number 103-500 in the search bar on the home page. Which wood and south hills water and sewer improvements will pop up to get project page update scroll down to the bottom of the project page and click on subscribe to this page. The link to a PDF. Of the PowerPoint and link to the YouTube video. This presentation will be posted on the project page. For any emergencies of water main breaks sewer backs up 24 hours a day you can call 817-392-4477 choose option one for non-emergency from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday. You can call the same number at 1-7392-4477 closed on city holiday. Download the my FW app from the app store or Google play. You can report sewer overflows leaks and water main breaks missing or broken meter leads. Water theft water violation no water service. Water pressure issues and sewer any other sewer concerns actually. Again, I'm Dina Johnson project manager my telephone number at 1-7392-7866 my email address is Dina Johnson at Fort Fort Texas that go. The design consultant engineer would turn away and associate is Brian Sherry. And now I want to thank you for attending this presentation and we're going to open it for questions. Don't have anything I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Okay. Can you hear me? Okay. You said you said that there will be a knock on the door before the water outages. Will that be true for homes within the gated neighborhood as well? Yes. be inside the gated community if they need it to or whatever if they needed to if they need if they're gonna be cutting the water for any other time they'll be reaching out to you. Okay okay um Lea can you give us can you give us an idea as to when this construction will begin? Uh we're thinking about um lake uh winter we're gonna start construction. Let me look one more time. Okay if you're not needed can you meet yourself? Okay Leanna says of this year uh 2024 and the one 2024 yes. Okay and I missed one from Wade. Wade said general idea well he's asking the same thing uh general idea on the start date of construction and time to complete so you've answered that question. Yes um I asked the consultant to come up with a timeline how much it's going to take to complete this project. Brian do you have those information? Yeah what's what's going to happen is the the franchise utilities are going to start to move first which comes before this project and and right now um the gas that the gas company probably has the most extensive work so you'll see gas get out there here in October work through about February after which time the the contractor for this project will will come online um so you'll probably see it in the you know February maybe early March but they they need to get started sooner than later um they're gonna there's actually three sets of utilities in Westridge it makes it a little difficult and almost everything's going to go back within the same trench line so every almost everything with a few exceptions is going to be between the curb lines um and one uh one of the one of the items that's going to take a little bit longer is there's a there's a 24 inch pipe on this project that really can't be taken out of service during the summer that puts out a lot of the city so they're going to um install the largest water line in in the fall of 2024 but all the smaller utilities will be replaced before then. Okay we've got a question from Leanna she said she said gas operations begin this fall does that affect land closures as well? Temporary um gas has gotten really good about replacing a lot of their lines within the ground we don't have final design from them just yet they've been provided everything that the city is going to be doing so I think you're gonna see some service lines every once in a while that are replaced and that may be a couple hours of downtime um depending on what you know most often in modern times they're actually using a method where they trench underground so you may see some um you know combed off areas so it'd be inconvenient but you shouldn't see the whole lane shut down for for gas operations. Okay Camille said um will any consideration be given to replace the water mains and sewer on the additional streets in the originally neighborhood for example Winthrop Avenue west Sharon and Winthrop Avenue east? Those those will be probably on a future project but not with this project. Okay um John Van Son will the entire road surface be replaced? Yes it will be replaced yes we will be working with TPW transportation public works on the pavement uh the type of pavement whatever we have out there we're gonna be replacing and putting it back in an original best shape as it was before. Yes okay he also asked are any other will there be any other changes to the roadway? No you know Brian okay um Tina how long will the disruption last it sounds like it may start in October soon and could go for a year so is it going to be Brian you might be able to answer this it's going to be a 365 day project? It the the city's project itself uh we're going to we're going to look at keeping it within a year the city's portion really starts in in February the big work that you're going to see uh you know is with the replacement of utility pipes is going to take place in the in the early spring through through the end of the year the pavement after that the we've got to give the franchise utilities enough time to clear their conflicts um so that we don't run into them so that the you know the water and sewer contractor does not run into them um and there's been a lot of coordination between the the franchise utilities and the city's utilities it's a very uh the corridor just has a lot going on uh within it so there's a lot more coordination than say a normal residential street. Okay do we have a um ballpark date of when we'll be getting a contractor on board I don't know we have to advertise and things like that do we have a ballpark idea when that'll happen? We're going to be bidding soon and so the contractor I think is going to be on board before construction starts um you know I believe the intent is going to be around the first of the year. Okay um okay we've got Leanna just to be clear gas operations begin in October 2023 and water operations begin February of 2024 and will be completed before the end of 2024 that that would be the goal we're going to we're going to put some firms in there they may have to use two crews to do it they've got to do their work in the future months so they don't affect the systems on the way to this water water line taking out of the taking out of service during the summer and I'm echoing I apologize there that's okay you it wasn't you I think Brian was not very clear at the end uh Brian I don't know if everybody heard what you said but um I just want to emphasize something weather permitting normally would like to finish this project by the end of next year but with anticipation of the weather it might take up to 18 months to finish and um do you agree with the timing Brian on the length of the project and ordering material the the and we're trying to phase it right now one of the last things we do to go before we bid is we know that large diameter pipe takes some time to get but while the contractor orders that pipe he can start on the smaller diameter smaller diameter lines Dina can you go back to the project map go where I'm sorry what do you want to go can you go back to the project map yes okay um another question from chat wait a minute okay okay here we go thank you um let me see just to be okay uh during this time will Westridge from Camp Bowie to Vickery be completely closed off or will we be able to access this section of Westridge it will never be completely closed off certainly not permanently um if the contract one line open Brian there would always be one line open yeah in fact a lot of the sanitary sewer is going to be replaced by a method called pipe bursting where they'll probably go to one manhole on each side of the section and do most of the work underground so you're going to have temporary closures um when they when they put the water pipe in the ground they were required to cover uh their work uh that day so you're going to have some temporarily temporary lane closures you're going to have some barricading at at locations where the contractor has to leave the ground open for that night or you know there's something happening right there where they need to get back to the access point but the goal and intent is to never close the road completely down certainly not for the whole length and if the contractor is having to do that probably because he's discovered something that's not quite working right or he needs to get special permission to do one very specific operation the intense not to close the road for the whole project there should always be at least one line open okay so that kind of goes into this next question so when you say phase project can you help walk us through the various phases the most ideal situation yes um what you'll see probably going into the spring and into the summer is as there's a there's a 12-inch water line that runs down the street mostly on the west on the east side of the street and a sanitary sewer that kind of runs through the center the contractor will be responsible for replacing sections of that line from camp buoy down to west ridge um far so your your your disruptions are going to be mostly from the center to the east side of the street um in the fall and in the winter of next year most of the lot the 24 inch or 30 inch line it's going to be upsized will be placed in from north of ridgeway down to edge hill and then edge hill over to uh sea lands and most that's that's on the west side so it's you're going to see more barricading on the east side early on um and then as as um he rolls over to the large dam or pipe you're going to see more of the barricading there on the west side okay he's never going to have the hall he's never going to have one full lane closed the whole time he's going to barricade his area he's working but when he's not in that area you might have some uh you might see a trench line but it would be drivable okay now south colt um asks will there be any improvements to sidewalks or will sidewalks be added when streets are repaired not we will not have any sidewalk added on this project how about repairs no no repairs okay all right that's all i've got in the chat um does someone have a question they want to ask i bet you all need it can you unmute yourself if you want to ask the question we've got camille do you have any questions hi can you hear me yes ma'am okay great thank you first just thank you for having the meeting and answering all the questions really appreciate that when it comes um to establishing detours and this may be a question that's better suited for the pre-construction meeting um is there a way to avoid the like ridgely neighborhood um and maybe detour people millburn over to brian erving and down but it sounds like i guess for the most part maybe the roads are gonna i i guess i don't know if there's ever going to be a time where you need maybe just we'll never yeah we'll never have to my you know as we look at the project right now i don't think we're going to have a permanent detour okay the contractor when he finally starts to look at his what he needs to do if he identifies something you know because he has a piece of equipment that needs to sit to the side of a ditch he's gonna have to he's gonna have to provide what he wants to do to the city first for approval before he can do that okay chances are highly likely we're never going to shut down the entire road there's there's always be at least one line of traffic i just normally during construction the contractor has to present a traffic control plan and it has to be approved by the city till then we'll share that with you during the next meeting during the construction meeting wonderful thank you so much okay i'm just going to keep going down the list um i've got chris gooch i think you've asked some questions do you have any others we've got e moses do you have any questions any questions a john van son no i'm good thank you okay all right we've got leanna thank you i'm good thank you okay um maryl king i'm good thank you okay rj stark poll i think you asked the question did you have any more yes just just a follow-up on that last question i know this is this is not a project for sidewalks but i'm wondering as this was being reviewed and planned were there any considerations for future projects that would include sidewalks extending the length of west ridge this is the water department project and normally sidewalks improvement will be handled by transportation and public works um they are the one who can fund those type of projects got it got it okay thank you okay tina castillo no thank you guys it's been very informative okay and the last one is wade calden now that that answered all my questions essentially we're getting ready to start and it'll probably take us till the end of next year and just keep our eyes open for what's going on when it's happening okay dina anything else you want to talk about no i i think a lot of those question would be more clarified during our next pre-construction meeting and um like on the traffic and on the lane closures all these would be more clarified when we have the contractor on board dina can you go back to that slide that has um how to find the page should be the last one okay yes it'd be i would i should be able to get the pdf of this power point up tomorrow morning um i will try to get the video done as well but that might be monday before it's available i think this is the one you need celly or information okay so if you if you do this w w dot for texas dot gov all you have to do is type in 103 500 in the search bar on the homepage and this page will will come up okay thank you everybody thank you everybody have a good evening thank you everybody