RogerJ1 (Texas)
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Posts: 550
Posted:
Anyone have ballpark estimate on how much it would cost to get a municipal water supply to a ~1500 acre development that has 56 lots that are on private water wells currently?
Background: every 5 years of so, neighbors in the community get worked up about wanting fire hydrants. At first, they do not realize that we do not have fire hydrants because we are on a private water supply - they think the county or fire department is just ignoring us. After it is pointed out that residential water pumps do not supply enough water to feed a fire hydrants, and that fire department shut off power when fighting a house fire, so they pumps would not run even if strong enough, so we would have to have a municipal water supply, fire hydrant talk usually ends.
Based on the people bringing it up now, I think they will push it further - explore getting municipal water at least explore it on a discussion level. I assume that would entail establishing a MUD, which would issue bonds to pay for the water development, then greatly increase property taxes to pay off those bonds.
So just out of curiosity how much would the capital costs be? Note: the nearest neighborhood to us with a MUD and municipal water is around a mile or a little farther away. If that could not be tapped and pipe to our subdivision, the next closest supply would be many more miles.
I suspect it would be well over a million dollars but I do not know and I can find nothing researching MUD development costs.
Anyone know a ballpark figure?
Background: every 5 years of so, neighbors in the community get worked up about wanting fire hydrants. At first, they do not realize that we do not have fire hydrants because we are on a private water supply - they think the county or fire department is just ignoring us. After it is pointed out that residential water pumps do not supply enough water to feed a fire hydrants, and that fire department shut off power when fighting a house fire, so they pumps would not run even if strong enough, so we would have to have a municipal water supply, fire hydrant talk usually ends.
Based on the people bringing it up now, I think they will push it further - explore getting municipal water at least explore it on a discussion level. I assume that would entail establishing a MUD, which would issue bonds to pay for the water development, then greatly increase property taxes to pay off those bonds.
So just out of curiosity how much would the capital costs be? Note: the nearest neighborhood to us with a MUD and municipal water is around a mile or a little farther away. If that could not be tapped and pipe to our subdivision, the next closest supply would be many more miles.
I suspect it would be well over a million dollars but I do not know and I can find nothing researching MUD development costs.
Anyone know a ballpark figure?