1. Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans
ACEC Luncheon
May 12, 2016

2. Power resiliency efforts Design projects Construction projects
Automatic Meter Reading
Water/Streets replacement
Drainage funds
Green infrastructure
Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans

3. Power Resiliency Power fluctuations
Evaluating power supply alternatives
60 cycle alternatives
Michoud tower repairs
Water plant towers
DR-UPS
Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans

4. $150 Million Power Plant HMGP
In construction
Turbine 4 Generator $7.9 million
60hz Feeders $3.4
Generator testing load bank $5.5
Replacement of critical feeders $28.0
Emergency fuel storage $6.4
Structural refurbishment $3.8
In design
Oak street intake $16.7
Refurbish boiler room $44.7
Turbine 5 refurbishment $17.3
Turbine 3 refurbishment $16.9
Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans

5. Projects in Design 33 different prime consultants active
$1.4 billion in estimated construction
Katrina PA Water, Sewer
Power plant HMGP
SELA
SSERP
Replacement Program
Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans

6. Projects in Construction
Over $200 million
Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans

7. Automatic Meter Reading
Installing new software-on line this year!
Selected and installing new meters
Will be selecting AMR equipment
On line by 2018?
Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans

8. FEMA Funded Replacement
$2.2 billion settlement announced in December
80% for street and drainage and 20% water mains
FEMA proposal review due in June
Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans

9. Drainage Funded by 3 separate millages generating $40 million
Over $40 million in capital maintenance currently unfunded
1 millage expires at the end of 2016, reducing drainage funds by 20%.
Lakefront stations come online in 2017, increasing drainage costs
Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans

10. Green Infrastructure SELA expansion success federally funded
Drainage expansion is expensive
$1.5 m in SWB funds committed to date on 25 different projects over the last 3 years
Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans

11. Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans
Re-Building the City’s Water Systems for the 21st Century