City of Kingfisher

PROJECT PURPOSE

We need to upgrade the raw water operations for the City of Kingfisher, serving 6500 residents and businesses. Our copper phone lines to communicate between the water wells, plants, and towers will become obsolete as our local phone coop is abandoning copper lines and moving to fiber. The costs for fiber to our wellfields are too high to be practical, and a cellular system will be more practical. This will also increase efficiency and reduce water loss by creating a communication system incorporating all features of water production to include wells, plants, and towers.

EVIDENCE

OWRB, ODEQ, and Cowan Engineering Group support and validate our proposal that an automated water production system with all input and output features communicating together will improve efficiency, reduce costs, and provide a better quality of service to all members in the community.

POPULATION DESCRIPTION

All economically disadvantaged community members will benefit through more efficient water production improvements by reducing the need to increase water rates to continue manual operations. As sewer rates are based on water rates, this will also provide increased savings.

PERFORMANCE MEASURING

Automation of water production services will reduce man hours and physical operations of valves and pumps for the system; increase water conservation through automation; provide better services to all customers; and reduce operational costs to provide more affordable drinking water for community members.

ONGOING INVESTMENT AMOUNT

$

ONGOING INVESTMENT DESCRIPTION

None

ONGOING INVESTMENT REQUIRED

Able to continue operation without additional funding from the State of Oklahoma