SUBJECT: Petition for the City’s consent to the addition of three (3) tracts of land totaling 34.5858 acres to Northwest Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 5.
RECOMMENDATION: Petition for the City’s consent to the addition of three (3) tracts of land totaling 34.5858 acres to Northwest Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 5 be approved.
SPECIFIC EXPLANATION: Northwest Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 5 (the “District”) was created through the TCEQ in 1974, and currently consists of 2,795.6215 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 three (3) tracts of vacant land totaling 34.5858 acres, proposed be developed as single family residential and commercial property, to the District. The proposed annexation tracts are located in the vicinity of Spring-Cypress Road, Telge Road, Boudreaux Road, and Eldridge Parkway. 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 tracts will be provided with wastewater treatment by the Northwest Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 5 Wastewater Treatment Plant No. 1, the Northwest Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 5 Wastewater Treatment Plant No. 2, and the Northwest Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 15 Wastewater Treatment Facility. This regional plant also provides wastewater treatment to Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 273, Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 280, Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 281, Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 282, and Northwest Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 15. Potable water is provided by the District.
The nearest major drainage facility for Northwest Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 5 is Faulkey Gully which flows to Little Cypress Creek, then to Cypress Creek, then to Spring Creek, then to the San Jacinto River, and finally into Lake Houston. Faulkey Gully is within the Little Cypress Creek watershed. The proposed annexation tracts are 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