About the Plan
Financial Stability
JCW is committed to developing an affordable and strategic plan that enhances our community, protects our water quality, and ensures the long-term viability of our system.
In years past, before Integrated Planning (IP) was endorsed by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and included in the Clean Water Act, utility managers had fewer resources at their disposal. Without IP, they struggled to meet regulatory requirements that didn’t consider the utility’s financial obligations or unique circumstances facing the community it served. As a result, utility managers were often forced to satisfy those requirements by drastically increasing service rates over a short timeframe in order to fund the completion of projects over a short period of time. With Integrated Planning, utility managers can better manage community resources by prioritizing critical infrastructure, environmental, and public health issues.
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JCW will need to make major capital investments in the coming years to address priority infrastructure needs and regulatory demands. Thanks to its investment in the IP process, JCW has avoided significant, short-term rate increases by establishing a balanced, long-term investment strategy. This allows JCW to identify and prioritize engineering alternatives and new technologies that deliver customer savings.
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Phase 1 - Completed in 2019
JCW identified approximately $2.1 Billion (in 2018 dollars) in potential projects and solutions over the next 25 years.
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Phase 2 - Updated Plan - Completed in 2024
JCW identified approximately $2.9 billion (in 2024 dollars) in potential projects that are needed over the next 25 years. The majority of these initiatives, approximately 54 percent, are major wastewater treatment facility upgrades that will provide additional capacity, renew aging facilities and continue JCW’s commitment to existing and future regulatory requirements.
Cost Charts
In total, approximately $2.1 billion in facilities improvements were identified. This includes the major upgrades shown below as well as ongoing asset renewal needs.
​JCW's Five-Year Action Plan
While JCW’s 25-year IP is designed to guide its investments and activities for the next quarter century, an increased focus is required for its most immediate needs. To this end, JCW created a five-year action plan to help ensure the last year of its IP is just as successful as the first.
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The schedule below reflects JCW’s understanding of infrastructure and regulation needs over the next 5 years.
As JCW continues to implement the Integrated Plan, it will also develop new information that helps to better characterize system needs, solutions, and resources. Using the principles of adaptive management, JCW will update the Integrated Plan every five years to ensure investments are prioritized in a manner that optimizes their benefits to the community.
​Integrated Plan 25-Year Schedule
The 25-year year schedule is used for long-range planning and demonstrates to the regulators our intention to meet the requirements in a way that avoids burdening our customers with rate spikes.
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After quantifying potential project benefits, JCW worked with its engineering and financial consultants to develop the Phase 2 Integrated Plan’s implementation schedule. The schedule prioritized high-benefit projects while also considering project delivery, staff workload, and funding needs. The updated prioritization incorporated JCW’s improved understanding of system improvement needs with other factors that affect scheduling such as population growth rates. This effort helped JCW define a balanced implementation schedule for improvements over the next 25 years.
Interactive Map
Want to learn where projects will take place? You can use the interactive map link below to see where projects are taking place and learn more about the specifics details.
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