Fort Lauderdale Comprehensive Utility Strategic Master Plan
The Comprehensive Utilities Strategic Master Plan (CUSMP) is tied to the City of Fort Lauderdale’s strategic planning efforts conceived to schedule improvements necessary to ensure reliable service for the next twenty years. As part of the CUSMP, CHA evaluated the normal functions of water supply, water treatment, water high service pumping and distribution, wastewater collection, lift station pumping and wastewater treatment, and disposal. The CUSMP contained evaluations and recommendations of policies, procedures, and process improvements to increase energy conservation, monitoring and analysis, water conservation, and evaluations necessary to prepare for climate change and overall recommendations to increase the resiliency of the City’s utility infrastructure.
Components included:
- Wastewater collection/transmission master plan
- Water system master plan
- 20-year capital improvement plan (CIP)
- Water, wastewater Collection/Transmission Hydraulic Models
The project also included recommendations to increase energy efficiency and sustainability and analyses regarding climate change and water conservation. In particular, CHA recommended measures the City can take to address impacts to the wastewater system, including flows in the collection system, due to potential climate change and sea-level rise. Recommendations included prioritizing rehabilitation projects to increase the reliability of the conveyance systems and reduce I&I and flows to the WWTP. This was accomplished by developing new hydraulic models and flow projections to aid in capital project planning improvements to reduce Infiltration and Inflow (I&I) flows based on pump station and rainfall data and the development of an implementation plan to monitor I&I at key locations.
Project Services:
- Master Planning
- Evaluation
- Hydraulic Modeling
- Capital Improvement Plan