At Monday night’s city council meeting attendees heard an audit from JBS Consulting Services of Houston who was hired by the city to help them understand water loss issues in Rockdale.
The summary concluded that Rockdale has a 24 percent loss of non-revenue water totals. Some of that is leaks, but not all of it. Non-revenue water is a persistent problem in most municipal water systems. It is water that is pumped or produced but is subsequently lost or otherwise unaccounted for in the system. These losses can include theft, evaporation, faulty metering, poor data gathering and leakage.
With Rockdale’s massive water main replacement project about to start, that may help with some of the leaks, especially in the high-pressure areas of the city.
In other business, several people signed up to speak on a variety of topics, with some of the grievances having been aired in previous meetings.
One compla int wa s against Rockdale Fire Department for not following their charter on elections and the curtailment of the junior firefighter program. The city thinks they may have a jurisdiction issue with helping to solve these problems and are looking into it.
A PID (Public Improvement District) was passed as part of the Cornerstone development, the new neighborhood going in on FM 487.
Mayor pro tem Lin Perry read a resolution making February Black History Month in Rockdale.
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