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Project Title:	Richmond - College Hill WTP Upgrade
Project Number:	WX21151072	AWMPC:	BGADD
Funding Status:	Not Funded	Date Approved by AWMPC:	12.21.2021
Project Status:	Approved	Primary County:	Madison
Project Schedule:	3-5 Years	Planning Unit:	Unit 7
E-ClearingHouse SAI:		ECH Status:
Primary System:	KY0760370 Richmond Water, Gas & Sewer	ADD WMC Contact:	Casey Cash
Legal Applicant:	City of Richmond
Entity Type:	Incorporated City

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Project Title:
Richmond - College Hill WTP Upgrade

Project Description:
Plant modifications including the addition of a third raw water intake pump, a new raw water line leading from the Kentucky River to the treatment facility, one additional flocculation basin and a 3 mgd settling basin, two new filters, enlarged chemical feed tanks, replacement of existing high service pumps with 12 mgd pumps, and adding a 2 mg Clearwell. These expanded processes are needed to increase capacity from 12mgd to 15mgd.

Need For Project: Briefly describe how this project promotes public health or achieves and/or maintains compliance with the Clean Water Act or Safe Drinking Water Act:
The plant expansion will ensure the safe provision of water to Richmond after expansion and increased demand in the area of Duncannon Road and the Industrial Park. : While increased demand is currently occurring, the WTP Upgrade is in preparation for growth that is anticipated in the next 3-5 years. Current development is occurring at the I-75 Interstate interchange at Duncannon Road that will spur additional development in that area.

Project Alternatives:

Alternate A:

Note: If project includes the construction of a new treatment plant or upgrade to existing plant, please explain regionalization options here.

Upgrade the College Hill WTP by increasing raw water intake and expanding treatment processes to account for the increased raw water.

Alternate B:

Do nothing until plant capacity is met, then pursue improvements.

Entity Information
Entity Type:	Incorporated City
Entity Name:	City of Richmond
PSC Group ID:	8805700
Office EMail:	lcassity@richmond.ky.us
Web URL:
Office Phone:	859-623-1000	Fax:	859-623-7618

Entity Address Information
	Mail Address	Physical Address
Address Line 1:	PO Box 250
Address Line 2:
City, State Zip:	Richmond , KY 40475

Entity Contact Information
Contact Type	Name	Title	EMail	Phone	Cell
Business Contact:	Lisa Cassity	City Clerk	lcassity@richmond.ky.us	859-623-1000
Authorized Official:	Robert Blythe	Mayor	rblythe@richmond.ky.us	859-623-1000

Information Source:	Kentucky Department for Local Government
Date Last Modified:	09.16.2025

Project Administrator (PA) Information

Name:	Scott Althauser
Title:	General Manager
Organization:	Richmond Water Sewer and Gas
EMail:	salthauser@richmondutilities.com
Phone:	859-623-2323 Fax: 859-624-0805
Address Line 1:	300 Hallie Irvine St
Address Line 2:	PO Box 700
City, State Zip:	Richmond , KY 40476

Applicant Contact (AC) Information

Name:	Scott Althauser
Title:	General Manager
Organization:	Richmond Water Sewer and Gas
EMail:	salthauser@richmondutilities.com
Phone:	859-623-2323 Fax: 859-624-0805
Address Line 1:	300 Hallie Irvine St
Address Line 2:	PO Box 700
City, State Zip:	Richmond , KY 40476

Project Engineer (PE) Information

This project requires a licensed Professional Engineer.

PE Exemption:

Estimated Budget As-Bid Budget

Project Cost Categories
Cost Category	Cost
Administrative Expenses:	$5,000
Legal Expenses:
Land, Appraisals, Easements:
Relocation Expense & Payments:
Planning:	$113,000
Engineering Fees - Design:	$692,000
Engineering Fees - Construction:	$173,000
Engineering Fees - Inspection:	$412,000
Engineering Fees - Other:	$80,000
Construction:	$13,500,000
Equipment:
Miscellaneous:
Contingencies:	$1,350,000
Total Project Cost:	$16,325,000

Construction Cost Categories
Cost Category	Cost
Treatment:	$13,500,000
Transmission and Distribution:
Lead Remediation:
Source:
Storage:
Purchase of Systems:
Restructuring:
Land Acquisition:
Non-Categorized :
Total Construction Cost:	$13,500,000

Total Sustainability Costs:	$2,500,000

Note:

Sustainability costs are included within other costs
reported in this tab. This breakout, when provided,
is for SRF review purposes.

Project Funding Sources

Total Project Cost:	$16,325,000
Total Committed Funding:
Funding Gap:	Not Funded

Funding Source	Loan or Grant ID	Fiscal Year	Amount	Status	Applicable Date
KIA SRF Fund F Loan (DW)	F23-126	2023	$16,325,000	Bypassed	05-17-2022
Total Committed

Funding Source Notes

Estimated Project Schedule

Estimated Environmental Review Submittal Date:	08.30.2022
Estimated Bid Date:	11.30.2022
Estimated Construction Start Date:	12.30.2022
Estimated Construction Completion Date:	12.30.2023

The following systems are beneficiaries of this project:

KY0760370

Richmond Water, Gas & Sewer

Checked box indicates primary system for this project.

Project Ranking by AWMPC:

Regional Ranking(s):
Planning Unit Ranking:
Total Points:

Plans and Specifications:

Plans and specs have been sent to DOW.

Plans and specs have been reviewed by DOW.

Plans and specs have been sent to PSC.

Plans and specs have been reviewed by PSC.

Economic Impacts
Jobs Created:
Jobs Retained:

MHI Basis:

Demographic Impacts (GIS Census Overlay)
Serviceable Demographic	Project Area	Included Systems	Included Utilities
Population:		34,443	34,443
Households:		15,578	15,578
MHI:		$49,919	*$49,919
MHI MOE:		$3,185	$3,185
MOE as Percent:		6%	6%
**NSRL:		2	2

Population and household counts are based on the 2020 Census DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) dataset.

Median Household Income (MHI) Source: American Community Survey 2019-2023 5 Yr Estimates (Table B19013 *(for the primary system operated by the above listed beneficiary utilities).

MHI MOE = Med HH Income Margin of Error.

** NSRL (Non-Standard Rate Levels):
  0 = Greater than or equal to Kentucky MHI (KMHI).
  1 = Between 80% KMHI and KMHI (exclusive).
  2 = Less than or equal to 80% KMHI.
  - KMHI = $62,417
  - 80% KMHI = $49,934

New Customers
New Residential Customers:
New Commercial Customers:
New Institutional Customers:
New Industrial Customers:

New or Improved Service
Service Demographic	Survey Based	Census Overlay*
To Unserved Households:
To Underserved Households:	12,871
To Total Households:	12,871
**Cost Per Household:	$1,268

*	GIS Census block overlay figures are estimates of population and households potentially served by systems and projects based on a proximity analysis of relevant service lines to census block boundaries published for the 2010 SF1 dataset.
**	Cost per household is based on surveyed household counts, not GIS overlay values.

Geographic Impacts
For Project Area

Counties

Madison

Legislative Districts

District Name	Legislator
House 091	Bill Wesley
Senate 34	Jared Carpenter
Congressional 6	Andy Barr

HUC 10 Watersheds

HUC 10 Code	Watershed Name
0510020405	Millers Creek-Kentucky River

Geographic Impacts
For Included System(s)

Counties

Madison

Legislative Districts

District Name
House 071	Josh Bray
House 081	Deanna Gordon
House 089	Timmy Truett
House 091	Bill Wesley
Senate 34	Jared Carpenter
Congressional 6	Andy Barr

DW Specific Impacts:

	This project relates to a public health emergency.
	This project will assist a non-compliant system to achieve compliance.
	This project will assist a compliant system to meet future requirements.
	This project will provide assistance not compliance related.
	This project is necessary to achieve full or partial compliance with a court order, agreed order, or a judicial or administrative consent decree.
	Primary system has not received any SDWA Notices of Violation within the previous state fiscal year (July through June).
	Primary system has had an action level exceedance (lead concentrations exceed an action level of 15 ppb in more than 10% of customer taps sampled) within the last compliance period.
	Primary system has received a lead trigger level exceedance (lead concentrations exceed a trigger level of 10 ppb in more than 10% of customer taps sampled) within the last compliance period.

Project Readiness LSL (Lead Inventory and Lead Service Line Replacement):

Lead Service Line Inventory:

A description of goals to be achieved and products to be created (e.g., electronic or GIS database; customer communication tools) when creating a lead service line inventory procedure, including a proposed timeline for achieving each goal.

Lead Service Line Replacement:

	A strategy for informing customers before a LSLR and a template for an agreement with the private property owner to replace the LSL.
	A process for documenting all property owners declining replacement of privately owned portion of LSL.
	A procedure for customers to flush service lines and premise plumbing of particulate lead.
	A proposed plan for conducting LSL replacement utilizing all requested funding.
	A funding strategy for conducting LSLRs utilizing all requested funding.

Project Inventory (Mapped Features):

Point Features:

DOW PermitID	Count	Feature Type	Purpose	Status	Existing Capacity	Proposed Capacity	Units
KY0760370	1	GENERATOR	GENERATOR - DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM	NEW			EA
KY0760370	1	PUMP STATION		NEW		2.00	MGD
KY0760370	1	PUMP STATION		NEW		12.00	MGD
KY0760370	1	SCADA	ENERGY EFF - SCADA	NEW			EA
KY0760370	1	WATER TREATMENT PLANT		WTP - UPGRADE	12.00	15.00	MGD
KY0760370	1	WATER TREATMENT PLANT	ENERGY EFF - VFD DEVICE	WTP - EXPANSION	12.00	15.00	MGD

Linear Features:

DOW Permit ID	Line Type	Purpose	Activity	Size (in.)	Material	Length (LF)
KY0760370		TRANSMISSION	EXTENSION - RAW WATER INTERCONNECT			623
					Total Length	623

Administrative Components:

The following administrative components are included in this project:

Planning

Design

Construction

Management

Audits on Record
Associated With Applicant

Audit Year	Entity Name	Entity Relationship
2024	Richmond, City of	Parent
2023	Richmond, City of	Parent
2022	Richmond, City of	Parent
2021	Richmond, City of	Parent
2024	Richmond Utilities	Child
2023	Richmond Utilities	Child
2022	Richmond Utilities	Child
2021	Richmond Utilities	Child

Regionalization Components:

Public Water Systems Eliminated:

This project includes the elimination of public water system(s) through merger or acquisition.

Water Treatment Plants Eliminated:

This project includes the elimination of water treatment plant(s).

Supplementation of Raw Water Supply:

This project includes supplementing the existing raw water supply.

Supplementation of Potable Water Supply:

This project includes supplementing the existing potable water supply.

Emergency Only Water Supply:

This project provides emergency only water supply.

Water Source Protection:

	This project will preventatively address PFAS or other emerging contaminants of the source water.
	This project will address current PFAS or other emerging contaminants of the source water.
	This project includes the rehabilitation of a dam or reservoir used primarily for drinking water.
	This project includes land acquisition for water source protection.

Water Treatment Components:

This project includes water treatment components.

Treatment Activities:

This project includes a new water treatment plant.

This project includes an expansion of an existing water treatment plant.

Current design capacity (MGD):	12.000
Proposed design capacity (MGD):	15.000

This project includes rehabilitation of an existing water treatment plant.

This project includes upgrades to an existing water treatment plant.

This project includes emergency power generators for treatment activities.

This project includes redundant treatment processes.

This project includes replacement of existing raw water lines.

Treatment - Upgrades/Modifications:

This project includes infrastructure options to meet Cryptosporidium removal/inactivation requirements.

This project includes infrastructure options to meet CT inactivation requirements.

This project includes treatment modifications to meet the Disinfectants/Disinfection Byproducts Rule at the water treatment plant.

Explanation of how disinfection treatment modifications will be achieved:

The Disinfectants/Disinfection Byproducts Rule that we would most likely be looking at here are enhanced coagulation or operational changes to reduce the need for chlorine/sodium hypochlorite or residual chlorite in the system.  Enhanced coagulation requires the removal of a minimum amount of total organic carbon (TOC)  that is in the raw water.  Depending on the coagulant used, this could mean having to lower the raw water pH with an acid or an acidic chemical/coagulant like alum by overfeeding the coagulant until the pH drops to the level needed to get the required TOC removal and then later raising the pH with caustic soda, etc., so the water is not corrosive.  Operational changes could be not feeding chlorine/sodium hypochlorite until the top of the filters or even until after filtration, that way disinfection byproducts (DBPs) won't form until later in the treatment process after the TOC levels have been reduced and thus should form lower amounts of DBPs.

This project will provide treatment modifications for VOCs, IOCs, SOC, or Radionuclides.

This project includes treatment modifications to address Secondary Contaminants.

Treatment process modifications preventatively addresses PFAS and other emerging contaminants.

Treatment process modifications addresses current PFAS and other emerging contaminants.

Security:

This project includes security components for water treatment facilities.

Water Distribution and Storage Components:

This project includes water distribution and/or storage components.

Water Line Extensions:

This project includes water line extension(s).

Length of extensions:

623 LF

This projects extends service to unserved rural areas.

Redundancy Components:

This project includes emergency power generators for distribution and/or storage activities.

Number of units provided:

This project includes redundant distribution and/or storage processes.

Finished Water Quality:

This project includes infrastructure to address inadequate water turnover and disinfection byproducts (DBPs).

Service Line Inventory:

This project includes implementation of a service line inventory.

Water Line Replacement:

This project replaces problem water lines (breaks, leaks, or restrictive flows due to age), water lines consisting of lead and/or asbestos-cement (AC), and/or inadequately sized water lines.
In-place or in-situ repair medhods will be used in lieu of water line replacement.
This project replaces lead service lines.

Water Loss in the Last 12 Months:

The system has experienced the following water loss over the past 12 months:

Water loss volume (MG):	528.920
Water loss percent:	20%

Water Storage and Pressure Components:

This project includes the construction of new water tank(s).

This project includes the replacement of existing water tank(s).

This project includes the rehabilitation of existing water tank(s).

This project includes the construction of new pump station(s).

Number of new pump stations:

This project includes new pump stations for filling water tanks.

This project includes new pump stations for boosting pressure.

This project includes the rehabilitation of existing pump station(s).

Security:

This project includes security components for water distribution infrastructure.

Green
InfrastructureWater
EfficiencyEnergy
EfficiencyEnvironmentally
InnovativeAsset
Management

Green Infrastructure:

Green stormwater infrastructure includes a wide array of practices at multiple scales that manage wet weather and that maintains and restores natural hydrology by infiltrating, evapotranspiring and harvesting and using stormwater. On a regional scale, green infrastructure is the preservation and restoration of natural landscape features, such as forests, floodplains, and wetlands, coupled with policies such as infill and redevelopment that reduce overall imperviousness in a watershed. On the local scale, green infrastructure consists of site and neighborhood-specific practices, such as:

Component		Cost
Item 1:	Bioretention
Item 2:	Trees
Item 3:	Green Roofs
Item 4:	Permeable Pavement
Item 5:	Cisterns
Total Cost:

* Indicates a business case may be required for this item.

If any box(es) above are checked, please describe each below.

Water Efficiency:

The use of improved technologies and practices to deliver equal or better services with less water. Water efficiency encompasses conservation and reuse efforts, as well as water loss reduction and prevention, to protect water resources for the future. Examples include:

Component		Cost
Item 1:	Installing or retrofitting water efficient devices such as plumbing fixtures and appliances (toilets, showerheads, urinals).
Item 2:	Installing any type of water meter in previously unmetered areas (can include backflow prevention if in conjunction with meter replacement).
Item 3:	Replacing existing broken/malfunctioning water meters with AMR or smart meters, meters with leak detection, backflow prevention.
Item 4:	Retrofitting/adding AMR capabilities or leak equipment to existing meters.
Item 5:	Conducting water utility audits, leak detection studies, and water use efficiency baseline studies, which are reasonably expected to result in a capital project or in a reduction in demand to alleviate the need for additional capital investment.
Item 6:	Developing conservation plans/programs reasonable expected to result in a water conserving capital project or in a reduction in demand to alleviate the need for capital investment.
Item 7:	Recycling and water reuse projects that replace potable sources with non-potable sources (Gray water, condensate, and wastewater effluent reuse systems, extra treatment or distribution costs associated with water reuse).
Item 8:	Retrofit or replacement of existing landscape irrigation systems to more efficient landscape irrigation systems.
Item 9:	Water meter replacement with traditional water meters.*
Item 10:	Distribution pipe replacement or rehabilitation to reduce water loss and prevent water main breaks.*
Item 11:	Storage tank replacement/rehabilitation to reduce water loss.*
Item 12:	New water efficient landscape irrigation system, where there currently is not one.*
Item 13:	Implementation of incentive programs to conserve water such as rebates.
Item 14:	Installing WaterSense labeled products (https://www.epa.gov/watersense)
Item 15:	Projects that result from a water efficiency related assessments (such as water audits, leak detection studies, conservation plans, etc.) as long as the assessments adhered to the standard industry practices referenced above.
Item 16:	Distribution system leak detection equipment, portable or permanent.
Item 17:	Automatic flushing systems (portable or permanent).
Item 18:	Pressure reducing valves (PRVs).
Item 19:	Internal plant water reuse (such as backwash water recycling).
Total Cost:

* Indicates a business case may be required for this item.

If any box(es) above are checked, please describe each below.

Energy Efficiency:

Energy efficiency is the use of improved technologies and practices to reduce the energy consumption of water projects, use energy in a more efficient way, and/or produce/utilize renewable energy. Examples include:

Component		Cost
Item 1:	Renewable energy projects, which are part of a public health project, such as wind, solar, geothermal, and micro-hydroelectric that provides power to a utility.
Item 2:	Utility-owned or publicly-owned renewable energy projects.
Item 3:	Utility energy management planning, including energy assessments, energy audits, optimization studies, and sub-metering of individual processes to determine high energy use areas.
Item 4:	Energy efficient retrofits, upgrades, or new pumping systems and treatment processes (including variable frequency drives (VFDs).*	$2,500,000
Item 5:	Pump refurbishment to optimize pump efficiency.*
Item 6:	Projects that result from an energy efficient related assessment.*
Item 7:	Projects that cost effectively eliminate pumps or pumping stations.*
Item 8:	Projects that achieve the remaining increments of energy efficiency in a system that is already very efficient.*
Item 9:	Upgrade of lighting to energy efficient sources.*
Item 10:	Automated and remote control systems (SCADA) that achieve substantial energy savings.*
Total Cost:		$2,500,000

* Indicates a business case may be required for this item.

If any box(es) above are checked, please describe each below.

With regard to the WTP project we may consider a number of options including solar or wind energy production for some plant functions, porous driving and walk surfaces with groundwater recharge and under parking storage, alternative building products or design practices for higher energy efficiency and lower carbon footprint in pumps, lighting, insulation, plastics use. Since the project is not yet in design, we cannot identify specific detailed design components, but the intent would be to incorporate sustainable infrastructure where it can be shown to have a positive life cycle cost.

Environmentally Innovative Projects:

Environmentally innovative projects include those that demonstrate new and/or innovative approaches to delivering services or managing water resources in a more sustainable way. Examples include:

Component		Cost
Item 1:	Total integrated water resources management planning, or other planning framework where project life cycle costs are minimized, which enables communities to adopt more efficient and cost-effective infrastructure solutions.
Item 2:	Plans to improve water quantity and quality associated with water system technical, financial, and managerial capacity.
Item 3:	Source water protection planning (delineation, monitoring, modeling).
Item 4:	Planning activities to prepare for adaptation to the long-term effects of climate change and/or extreme weather.
Item 5:	Utility sustainability plan consistent with EPA’s sustainability policy.
Item 6:	Greenhouse gas inventory or mitigation plan and submission of a GHG inventory to a registry as long as it is being done for an SRF eligible facility.
Item 7:	Construction of US Building Council LEED certified buildings, or renovation of an existing building.
Item 8:	Projects that significantly reduce or eliminate the use of chemicals in water treatment.*
Item 9:	Treatment technologies or approaches that significantly reduce the volume of residuals, minimize the generation of residuals, or lower the amount of chemicals in the residuals.*
Item 10:	Trenchless or low impact construction technology.*
Item 11:	Using recycled materials or re-using materials on-site.*
Item 12:	Educational activities and demonstration projects for water or energy efficiency (such as rain gardens).*
Item 13:	Projects that achieve the goals/objectives of utility asset management plans*
Total Cost:

* Indicates a business case may be required for this item.

If any box(es) above are checked, please describe each below.

Asset Management:

If a category is selected, the applicant must provide supporting documentation in PDF format to substantiate claims.

Asset Management Components

Last Rate Adjustment Date:	07.01.2023 Download Fee Schedule
Rate Adjustment Age (months):	30

System’s monthly water bill, based on 4,000 gallons, as a percentage of MHI:

0.56%

The system has an Asset Management Plan (AMP).

The system(s) involved in this project have specifically allocated funds for the rehabilitation and replacement of aging and deteriorating infrastructure.

If any box(es) above are checked, please describe each below.

Activity	Date
Profile Created:	12.07.2021
Profile Last Modified:	02.23.2022
General Info Last Modified:	12.21.2021
Narrative Last Modified:	02.23.2022
Admin Info Last Modified:	12.07.2021
Budget Info Last Modified:	12.07.2021
Impacts Info Last Modified:	12.07.2021
Plans & Specs Info Last Modified:
Components Info Last Modified:	12.07.2021
GIS Last Modified:	12.22.2021

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