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More Hollywood Road spills in September 2023; City lays out $17 million in repairs
Spills from Hollywood Road into Playa Lake 40 occurred over several days starting September 20, 2023. Assistant City Manager Floyd Hartman attributed the plant's condition to decades of deferred maintenance, the plant's age and the 2023 flooding. He had presented six critical projects to council on September 12, and said about $17 million in budgeted cash had been put toward repairs.[1][2][3][4]
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What the sources say
- ⚠ Sources differ
Reported volumes for the September 2023 Hollywood Road spills into Playa Lake 40 differ by source.
- Gallons
- 275,000
City figure for a spill that began Wednesday evening (Sept 20) and was contained early Thursday, as reported by KFDA and ABC7.
Reported value 2[3]
- Gallons
- 940,000
- Events
- 3
Amarillo Globe-News: more than 940,000 gallons of partially treated wastewater in three spills from Wednesday to Friday.
Reported value 3[4]
- Gallons
- 971,955
- Events
- 4
- Start
- 2023-09-20
- End
- 2023-09-23
TCEQ enforcement summary: four unauthorized discharge events, September 20-23, 2023.
- ✓ Verified
Floyd Hartman, Assistant City Manager: Assistant City Manager Floyd Hartman named three reasons for the plant's condition: lack of maintenance going back decades, the plant's age, and the 2023 flooding, which he said "magnified these weaknesses."[3]
- ✓ Verified
Floyd Hartman, Assistant City Manager: Hartman said about $17 million in budgeted cash had been put into Hollywood Road repairs. On September 12, 2023 he presented six critical projects to council: blowers, headworks, site electrical, influent pump station, north secondary clarifiers, and sludge. Full upgrades were estimated at that time in the hundreds of millions of dollars.[2][3]
- Repairs
- $17,000,000
- ✓ Verified
The City's 2023-2028 Capital Improvement Program programs $309,000,000 for 'Hollywood Road WWTF Second Treatment Train Design' ($9M FY2024, $45M FY2025, $105M FY2026, $105M FY2027, $45M FY2028), plus $1,000,000 for a Hollywood Road blower upgrade and $4,500,000 for a dissolved air flotation (DAF) dewatering project, both in FY2024. These are programmed amounts, not spending.[5]
- Second treatment train
- $309,000,000
- Fy2024
- 9,000,000
- Fy2025
- 45,000,000
- Fy2026
- 105,000,000
- Fy2027
- 105,000,000
- Fy2028
- 45,000,000
- Blower upgrade fy2024
- $1,000,000
- Daf dewatering fy2024
- $4,500,000