 If you are ready, we're going to start this meeting. We're here for the Monticello, Linwood, and Westside Area Water and Silver Improvement Design Meeting. Brenda or Apeza is your project manager. If you are not already muted, please mute yourself and you can unmute and ask questions after we're finished. If you want to go ahead and post a question in chat, if you'll look to the bottom right hand of your screen, there's a little chat icon. Click on that and type in your question. We'll take those questions first. Once we've answered those, we will welcome any of our call-in users to unmute themselves and ask the question. Brenda, are you ready? All right. Thank you for joining us this evening. During today's agenda, we will be covering introductions of those involved with the design of this project, an overview of why we're doing the project, as well as the areas being affected, and we'll finish off with some frequently asked questions. Your design project includes myself, Brenda Oropeza, I am the project manager. My phone number is 817-392-8271, and my email address is Brenda.Oropeza.FordWordTexas.gov. The engineering design consultant on this project is MAS Consultants with Angel Sanchez and Omar Sere Sere, leading the project, project overview. So we're going to be replacing existing ones, then it carries to remain in an area bound by West Settlement Road to the North, University Drive to the East, West District to the South, and Virginia Place to the West. The streets and easements in this project are located in Council District 7 and 9, and landmarks in the area include several apartment complexes, as well as condominiums, Monticello Park, tennis courts, Rivercrest Country Club, and the UNT Health Center. Construction may impact the Monticello Neighborhood Association, Linwood Neighborhood Association, as well as the West Satellite. All right, as we mentioned, this will be in Council District 7 and 9. The separation of these districts is on Bailey Avenue. So to the East is Council District 9 and to the West is Council District 7. So now I'll go through the streets and what we're going to be doing in those areas. First off, we have West 4th Street, where we will be replacing the water from University Drive to Monticello Drive, West 5th Street, where we will be replacing the water from University Drive to Bailey Avenue, Hamilton Avenue from University Drive to Virginia Place, where we will be replacing the water. Now, fully on Council District 7, we have West 5th Street from Monticello Drive to Ark Adams Street, where we will be replacing the water. Virginia Place from Monticello through Potomac Avenue, where we will be replacing the water. Lennox Drive from Dorsey Lane through Potomac Avenue, where we will be replacing the water. As for the sewer that we will be replacing, we have the easement between Monticello Drive and Hamilton Avenue from Dorsey Lane, 850 feet to the West. The easement between Lennox Drive and West 4th Street from Dorsey Lane West, about 683 feet. The easement between Lennox Drive and 4th Street from Potomac Avenue South, 195 feet to Potomac Avenue North, 195 feet, which is this area right here. The easement between Lennox Drive and West 4th Street from 280 feet northwest of the Potomac Avenue and West 4th Street intersection, which is this area right here, and the easement between Hamilton Avenue and Potomac Avenue from Lennox Drive to Monticello Drive. So, why are we doing this project? 4th Wood prioritizes water and sewer line replacements based on the available we have. That includes the water main brick history, the leak history, the closed-circuit TV inspection, which is where we put cameras through the line, and we can see what condition those lines are in, the age of the line, the material of the line, and if there are any left services on that water line, if it's a water line. In this instance, the project was created because of the TAS IRON initiative. The City of 4th Ward is implementing to remove and replace old deteriorated TAS water mains. With the freezes we've been having, that's why this initiative started. We are also replacing deteriorating sanitary sewer pipes. Some of the pipes in this area is almost 100 years old. All right, so now I'm going to be going through some of the frequently asked questions. Do you replace water service lines up to my house? So, we replace the city-owned service line to the property line. We also replace the water meter and meter box, and we'll repair impacted areas on your property. We do not replace the water line from the water meter to your home or business. The service line from the water meter to your home or business is actually considered private plumbing, and in the event of leaks or repairs, those need to be done by a licensed plumber at the homeowner's expense. We'll unit access to our property. This construction is in the public right-of-way or in utility easements. If the water department needs access to your property, we'll contact you prior to the start-up construction. Where our sewer service needs to be disrupted? The sanitary sewer service will not be interrupted. New sewer clean-ups will be installed at the property line or the easement line. This sewer clean-up provides easy access in case of a backup or blockage where field ops need to come out. It allows them to be able to clean the line. The sewer line from the clean-out to the house is the owner's responsibility to maintain. Where our water be turned off? Water will be turned off when the water is transferred from the existing line to the temporary water line, and again when we're transferring the services from that temporary water line to the new water line. Those switchovers are done during the day, and the contractor will knock on your door and let you know when the water will be turned off. How does the temporary line impact my home and water bill? The temporary water line ensures that you are not without water during construction. Water must be continuously flowing through the temporary line, which is above ground. During the winter months to keep the line from freezing, customers should also keep their faucets dripping. In the summer months, a continuous flow keeps the water from becoming stagnant in the above ground and water line. The bill for year water usage during this time, while you're on the temporary water line, is based on the average of the previous month's usage. Will the city's trash truck be able to pick up my trash and recycling during construction? If your side of the street is close on your scheduled collection day, the contractor will take the trash and recycling parts to the opposite side of the street, so the trash collection vehicle can pick them up. What happens if my property is damaged? So the contractor will take pictures and videos of the property before they start construction. We do also encourage U.S. property owners to take pictures and videos of your property before construction starts. The contractor will restore the property to its original condition. Will the construction affect my irrigation? The contractor will ask property owners to turn on the irrigation system so sprinkler has to be located in blast. The contractor has to cap irrigation line before construction starts when we're reconnecting those meters, and the contractor will replace cap or damaged irrigation systems. Are there restrictions on when we can water our lawns? So the city as a whole has watering days, so those requirements include no watering by irrigation systems or sprinklers between 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Watered by hand-held hose, strip irrigation, or soaker hose is allowed at any time. And this is the irrigation system sprinkler schedule with assigned days for all water customers, and that can be seen on the right side of the screen. We have what we have Monday, no watering, allowed Tuesdays and Fridays are for non-residential sites such as apartment, businesses, parks, and common areas. Wednesdays and Saturdays, even number of residential addresses, and Thursdays and Sundays are number of residential addresses. Timeline. So we are still in the design phase. The next steps will include the conclusion of this time. We need to finish out that design. There's still some surveying that needs to be done in the area in District 9, specifically east of Bailey Avenue. Once the design is complete, we will be advertising for bids for construction, and once we open bids, we'll choose the lowest responsible bidder and go to the city council for approval and award of the bid to the contractor. We will then hold a pre-construction meeting with the contractor and inspector, and everyone else involved with the construction of the project. We will then hold a construction community meeting, which Cali will be mailing out invites again for that community construction public meeting to update everyone that's impacted by the project, and then some construction will begin, which we expect to start construction probably about December of this year. Where can I get more information? So the progress will be updated on the City of Fort Worth website at the link you see above, or you can also go to www.fortworthtexas.gov and put the project number 103-419. Again, that number is 103-419 in the search bar on the home page, and the project page for this project will come up. The link to this video, the project map, and the project summary and frequently asked questions will be linked to this project page. Here's my contact information again. My name is Brenda Oropeza. I am the project manager for this project, and my number is 817-392-8271, and my email address is Brenda.Oropeza at Fort Worth Texas.gov. Here are some emergency numbers if you need to report an emergency or non-emergency. You can call our Water Call Center. It's open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to Friday, and that number is 817-392-4477. And if you have an emergency, a water main break or sewer backup, you can report that 24 hours a day at that same number, 817-392-4477, and select Option 1. Or you could download the MyFWS from the App Store or Google Play where you can report sewer overflows, leaks, water main breaks, missing or broken meter lids, water theft, water violation, no water service, water pressure issues, and other sewer concerns. Again, that is the MyFWS app from the App Store or Google Play. Thank you. I'll hand it over to Sally to see if we have any questions in that chat. I don't see any questions in the chat. If you guys want to unmute yourself one by one and ask any questions. RJ, do you have any questions? Brenda, I have one question. This is Carl Kamatsu. Some of the locations that you indicate in the right-of-ways used to be the old alleyways. And in Monticello, there's a number of them, ours included. We're in the far west Lenox and Fourth Street leg. A lot of those have been, I guess, through time claimed or built over with fences and walls that, in our case, along that entire line between Lenox and Fourth Street. Sometimes there's no right-of-way. Sometimes there's maybe a foot or two left between people's fences. The best I can tell is that there are telephone poles, so there's lines going there, and I can guess where the old alley and right-of-way used to be. Do you have any preliminary design information in terms of whether the lines were located originally in the center of the right-of-way or one side or the other? I think the finished survey, I don't know if Angel's on the line, but I think with this line, if I recall correctly, we were thinking of doing a pipe enlargement, which would it would be more minimal disruption to the area. They would only need to really access the property to install those cleanouts at the property lines, if I recall correctly. Is Angel on the line, Sally? I can't really see the screen. Yeah, I'm here. We have done a survey on that area. We've tried to identify any kind of structures or anything, fence lines and anything else that we can in the area that we'll be working. We've used what we have available surface features, as far as manholes or cleanouts, where we can find them and records to best try to identify the locations of those lines. Yes, like Brenda said, for the most part, this will be going in by pipe enlargement or trenchless, so we don't anticipate a whole lot of surface disturbance. The only locations where we'll have to go back through, and this will be on an individual yard basis, is going back to reconnect services. That's something we're going to have to identify in the field. Every residence has their service connecting at different points along that line. We'll have to identify those on a case-by-case basis and to re-establish the connection. Any fences that are taken down, they'll be put back in place where they were before. We won't be trying to reclaim that right away or anything that's just going to be going back in to reconnect those services. We will be with the utility. We have 30 percent design, but once we have 60 and 90 percent design, we'll also be submitting that over to all the utilities in the area, so they're aware of the work we're planning to do and if we need to coordinate with them. Right. Well, I don't envy you, but I appreciate the task you're trying to do. Thanks. Yes, thank you. Brenda, it's David Hendricks. Hi, David. Hi there. Thank you for a good presentation and also for communicating with me by email last week. I still have a quick question. Apparently, the easement between Potomac Avenue and Hamilton is where a new sewer line will be put, and then that connects with something that's going on, I guess it's Fourth Street, and the project crosses Potomac Avenue. Is that sewer line involved digging up Potomac Avenue or will the sewer line be improved by tunneling through it and putting a new line in? The specifics, I don't know if you're... That's right. Thank you. You've identified it. This one, I believe we're going to try and tunnel that area. Okay. That is a sewer line replacement, not a water line replacement. Yes, that's correct. There is a sewer line running through this property, which I believe we will need to obtain an easement from these property owners. Okay. I don't think it affects me, but it does affect a couple of my neighbors and I don't know whether they're aware of it or not, but regarding the sewage line that's going in the easement between Potomac and Hamilton, will that involve tunneling or will that involve getting equipment into that relatively shallow easement area between my backyard and my neighbor's backyard on Hamilton? I think this one, we were going to try and pipe versus this line. We have to coordinate with the contractor more on this specific line because there are several pools in the area and we need to check to make sure that will be possible. I didn't understand. You're going to pipe burst? Yes. It's called pipe enlargement. We put the new pipe first, the old pipe, since the new pipe is larger. The existing pipe is, I believe, six inches and was installed in the 40s and the segment wasn't installed in the 20s and it'll kind of push the new pipe will break the old pipe in place. That way we don't have to dig up the yard or anything like that. Well, thank you for that explanation. I know that you're going to do the best you can to make this a big improvement without too much disruption and I'll sign off. Thank you, Brenda. Well, no problem. You have a nice night. We also have a question. You've got Doug, John Kellogg, Kyle, Albea. We've got a Calverly. Did we answer all of your questions? This is Kyle. I am on Linux and I know there's water work planned but the sewer work is West of Dorothy, which is outside of where I live. I guess my question is, is the fact that you're not working on the sewer between Linux and 4th east of Dorothy, does that mean I'm good to go and I don't have to worry about that thing? I believe that the sewer line in 4th street had been replaced under a previous project a few years back. That segment between North of West 4th Street to the east of Dorothy Lane is not part of this project and has already been replaced at this point. Yeah, I know 4th street three or four years ago was torn up quite badly but I didn't know they worked on the sewer but if they did that's great. I just, I actually contacted the Fort Worth office when Atmos started on the gas line work here thinking that well maybe they they were going to tear everything up they could do it at the same time but the feedback I got from the manager was that as you said the sewer line between Linux and 4th that is east of Dorothy had already been addressed so I guess that's consistent. Yes, I believe they did pipe enlargement on that project as well. Okay and that may be why I didn't recognize that anything happened but I know they didn't reconnect me so that's I don't know, I don't know. So, well that's fine. I'll double check that to make sure it's been addressed. All I know, yeah we've only been here about seven years. We demolished the old structure and put a new house up but in talking to the neighbors who had been here for a number of years was the sewer system was very problematic. I do know a neighbor that's about four or five houses further east of me on Linux had quite a bit of work done maybe six months ago. I believe that a work order around here where they they reconnected someone here that was pretty neat. Yeah that that length almost 100 years old so it's pretty bad shape. Yeah, yeah see where I'm to the west of where your cursor is I'm three houses east of Dorothy. Yeah right in there. Well that's good. I'm not going to worry about it then. We will be yeah we will be replacing that water line. Yeah. Yeah so right now and I know y'all have like three breaks there in the last year it's been been very problematic. So when the new line goes in is it still going to go on that side of the street? It's going to be about seven and a half feet from the right away. It'll go yeah it'll be on the same side of it. So okay okay is it going to go on the yard side of the street or is it going to go in the street street? It's in the street street. Okay all right well good luck. Thank you. Hi Brenda and Sally. Sorry. This is John Kellogg. I've got a commercial property on Fifth Street on the north side. I assume that y'all evaluated the sewer line that runs down the alleyway between fifth and fourth and decided it does not need to be repaired or replaced. We have a little bit of backup that goes in our building every now and then I don't think it I don't know if it's the city or if it's our line that goes out. We've replaced our line and so far we have no problem but I don't know if that was a stop gap fix or if that's going to help out but I assume you'll evaluate that sewer line. Yeah I can double check for you. Do you have an address or do you want to check the area? I don't know. I'm 31 yeah we're in between university and daily on fifth on the north side of Fifth Street. University. Well we're on Fifth Street yeah yeah right there and one of my long-term concerns is if all the commercial development continues to go on it may put a lot more demand on those sewer lines. Yeah just as more restaurants come in and more commercial establishments and make a more impact on that sewer line I'm gonna make sure it's been evaluated at this time. Oh check on that because we did um we were originally planning just to replace east of Bailey Avenue where added um by an amendment where since this is also cast iron we decided to go ahead and take it to university drive so I can check those sewer lines. Okay thank you. No problem. Brenda can you go to slide 18 that had the website page link? There you go. So this is the page um if the weather is good tomorrow we should be able to get this video the summary FAQs up on that page if you want if you want to listen to it again or just see it in writing and make sure please make sure you tell your neighbors and business associates so they can see the information. Do we have anybody else who wants to ask a question? We've got RJ, Doug, Leah and T. Calverly. And we will also be holding another public meeting once we do have a contractor on board so we know where we're starting and kind of what the construction plan is at that phase of the project. Okay. Brenda do you have anything else to add? Okay we're going to end this meeting but make sure you check that website page it'll all be up by either Friday or Monday. Thank you everybody. Thank you everyone. Thank you.