Customers of a private water system serving the Mansions of Prosper development, close to where Custer Road meets Bloomdale Road, have been getting their water from the City of McKinney for a month, after both wells at the private plant that normally supplies them broke down.
The arrangement surfaced Wednesday on McKinney's Nov. 3 City Council agenda, which asks council members to ratify an emergency agreement the city manager has already signed with the utility, Aqua Texas Inc.
What happened
Aqua contacted McKinney Public Works on Monday, Sept. 28, after mechanical failures at both wells serving its North Custer Road Plant cut the plant's water production, according to a staff memo. The development sits outside McKinney's city limits and outside its water service area; the agreement places it in McKinney's extraterritorial jurisdiction in Collin County.
The city gave verbal approval and started delivering treated water that same day. The setup is temporary: a McKinney fire hydrant on Bloomdale Road, about 300 feet northeast of the plant, fitted with a city-owned meter and a backflow prevention assembly, feeds polyethylene piping that runs to the fill line of Aqua's ground storage tank.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality gave conditional approval to the hookup on Sept. 30 for as long as Aqua needs to restore its normal supply.
The city manager and Aqua signed the written agreement on Oct. 13.
Terms
The agreement runs in 30-day periods that renew automatically but cannot go past 120 days from Sept. 28. Aqua must keep working to repair its wells and stop using the connection once the emergency is over, then remove the temporary equipment.
