CCR2010004-2020 Facilities Plan
STATE OF WISCONSIN CITY OF MUSKEGO WAUKESHA
COUNTY
RESOLUTION NO. 004-2010
A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE 2020 FACILITIES PLAN – ADDENDUM 2
FRANKLIN/MUSKEGO ADVANCED FACILITIES PLAN PROVIDING FOR
ALTERNATIVE D, THE RYAN CREEK INTERCEPTOR GRAVITY SEWER
ALTERNATIVE, AND PETITIONING THE MILWAUKEE METROPOLITAN SEWERAGE
DISTRICT TO AMEND THE 2020 FACILITIES PLAN TO SO PROVIDE FOR THE
RYAN CREEK INTERCEPTOR GRAVITY SEWER
WHEREAS, the Ryan Creek Interceptor Sewer was depicted in the Milwaukee
Metropolitan Sewerage District’s predecessor’s original master plan for facilities
development in 1967; and
WHEREAS, the Ryan Creek Interceptor Sewer having been depicted in all
succeeding facilities plans adopted thereafter by the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage
District, though without a plan for implementation; and
WHEREAS, the Common Council in July, 2005 engaged Ruekert & Mielke, Inc.
to prepare a system plan of the City’s sanitary sewerage system to be done
concurrently with the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District’s 2020 Facilities Plan;
and
WHEREAS, the purpose of this system plan was to determine the ultimate
sanitary sewerage needs for the City of Muskego along with the capital, operation, and
maintenance costs attendant to the recommended alternative; and
WHEREAS, the system plan study initially evaluated five alternatives and
concluded connection of the sewerage system for the southern portion of the City of
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Muskego to a future Ryan Creek Interceptor in the City of Franklin was the most cost-
effective and environmentally sound; and
WHEREAS, the Franklin Common Council on January 3, 2006, having
considered a letter from the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District Executive
Director, regarding the Ryan Creek Interceptor, confirming his discussion with the
Mayor of the City of Franklin and that the “City of Franklin has communicated to the
District the immediate need for sanitary sewer to a specific area within the City” and that
the “Ryan Creek Interceptor as briefly described in the 2020 Facilities Plan, could fulfill
the need”; and that “by Council action, the City of Muskego has also requested that the
Ryan Creek Interceptor be constructed”; and
WHEREAS, the City of Muskego by way of its Mayor, its Common Council, and
its City Engineer, participating as a member of the District’s Technical Advisory Team,
its consultants, and its neighboring community of the City of Franklin having continually
petitioned the District for the development of the Ryan Creek Interceptor; and
WHEREAS, the Ryan Creek Interceptor having been included in the District’s
2020 Facilities Plan, without specific implementation directive, and with estimated total
system costs of in excess of $100,000,000; and
WHEREAS, Ruekert & Mielke, Inc., consulting from time to time separately to the
Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, the City of Franklin and the City of Muskego,
having studied the matter of the Ryan Creek Interceptor and the plans therefore as
developed through the years, and having prepared for and with the District staff, a plan
for the development of the Ryan Creek Interceptor with a cost estimated to be some
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one-third of the total system costs previously estimated, which resulted in a Milwaukee
Metropolitan Sewerage District Draft 2020 Facilities Plan – Addendum 2-
Franklin/Muskego Advanced Facilities Plan, providing for an Alternative D; and
WHEREAS, the Common Council, having reviewed such Plan and Alternative D,
having determined that such Plan will further the City’s commitment to providing for the
ultimate provision of sanitary sewer service to the City of Muskego lands;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Mayor and Common Council of
the City of Muskego, Wisconsin, that the 2020 Facilities Plan – Addendum 2 -
Franklin/Muskego Advanced Facilities Plan, providing for Alternative D, in the form and
content substantially as attached hereto, is hereby approved, notwithstanding the
financial obligations which will be resolved at a future date.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, by the Mayor and Common Council of the City of
Muskego, Wisconsin, that the City of Muskego hereby petitions the Milwaukee
Metropolitan Sewerage District to adopt the 2020 Facilities Plan – Addendum 2 -
Franklin/Muskego Advanced Facilities Plan, providing for Alternative D, by way of
amendment to its 2020 Facilities Plan, in order to further the quality of life in the City of
Muskego, City of Franklin, Milwaukee County and the southern Milwaukee Metropolitan
Area.
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that the City Clerk be and the same is hereby
directed to deliver a copy of this Resolution to the Executive Director of the Milwaukee
Metropolitan Sewerage District for consideration by the Milwaukee Metropolitan
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Sewerage District Commission, and to the Mayor and Common Council of the City of
Franklin.
Introduced at a regular meeting of the Common Council of the City of Muskego
this ___13TH___ day of _____JANUARY_________, 2010.
Passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the Common Council of the City of
Muskego this __13th__ day of __January_, 2010.
APPROVED:
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John R. Johnson, Mayor
ATTEST:
__________________________________________
Janice Moyer, Clerk
AYES __5___ NOES __0___ ABSENT __2__
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