Capital Improvement Planning for Small Municipalities: Where to Start When You Don’t Know Where to Start
Every city manager and public works director reading this already knows their system has problems. The lift station that keeps failing. The water mains that were installed in 1965. The treatment plant that is one wet weather event away from a compliance violation. The board that wants a plan but has not allocated money for one. The question is not whether the problems exist. The question is where to begin turning them into something manageable.
How to Read a TCEQ Effluent Limit Table: What the Numbers Actually Mean for Your Development
When a Texas developer receives a draft TCEQ wastewater permit, the effluent limit table is usually the part nobody reads carefully enough. That is a mistake. Every number in that table is a design specification, an operating obligation, and a long-term cost driver.