We ask that you use the city reservoir Vancil Street instead of spending 4 million dollars on a new tank. Budgets are tight, the water fund has debt to pay and deferred projects remain undone. The city reservoir can provide the needed 2 million gallons of storage and more.
The Vancil Street reservoir was built to replace the Stewart Street tanks as the city reservoir in the 1960's and was renovated last November. The pumping and piping upgrades to use Vancil can be done at a fraction of the cost of a new tank. The over $3 million dollars in savings can then be used on other deferred projects.
A new tank cannot be completed until after the spring of 2011. Meanwhile, piping upgrades to deliver additional water for fire fighting have been deferred until 2012 and 2013. The elevated Holman tank, leaking and with earthquake damage, will not be replaced this summer as planned. The piping and pumping upgrades to replace it with Vancil reservoir storage have been deferred for two more years.
The recommended storage for all of Fortuna is 4 1/2-million gallons. The current plan puts over 7-million gallons of storage in the north. There is a shortage of storage in the Campton Heights / Rohnerville area.
We respectfully request that you recognize that storage of over 5 million gallons in the north is sufficient to meet the 3 million gallon need and move quickly to make the necessary piping and pumping upgrades to use the storage in the city reservoir on Vancil Street.
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