SUBJECT: Petition for the City’s consent to the addition of 8.500 acres to West Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 5.
RECOMMENDATION: Petition for the City’s consent to the addition of 8.500 acres to West Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 5 be approved.
SPECIFIC EXPLANATION: West Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 5 (the “District”) was created through the TCEQ in 1978, and currently consists of 315.074 acres within Harris County. The District is within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the City of Houston (the “City”) and has petitioned the City for consent to add 8.500 acres of developed single family residential, multi-family residential, and commercial land, to the District. The proposed annexation tract is located in the vicinity of Interstate 10, Katy-Fort Bend Road, Colonial Parkway, and Park West Green Drive. The addition of land to the District does not release it from the City’s extraterritorial jurisdiction.
The Utility District Review Committee has evaluated the application with respect to wastewater collection and treatment, potable water distribution, storm water conveyance, and other public services.
The District has a wastewater collection system and treatment facility. The annexation tract will be provided with wastewater treatment by West Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 5. This regional plant also provides wastewater treatment to Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 61, Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 62, Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 63, Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 64, Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 65, West Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 2, and Westside Ventures, Ltd. Potable water is provided by the District.
The nearest major drainage facility for West Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 5 is Mason Creek, which flows into Buffalo Bayou, and finally into the Houston Ship Channel. Mason Creek is within the Barker Reservoir watershed. The proposed annexation tract is not within the 100 or 500 year floodplain.
By executing the Petition for Consent, the District has acknowledged that all plans for the construction of water conveyance, wastewater collection, and storm water collection systems within the District must be approved by the City prior to their construction.
The Utility District Review Committee recommends that the subject petition be approved.
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Carol Ellinger Haddock, P. E.
Director
Houston Public Works