Winfield City Council Meeting
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
5:30 pm – Council Meeting
Winfield City Hall
AGENDA
To: All interested Agencies, Groups, and Individuals
This is to give notice that the Winfield Water Works and Sewer Board has conducted an evaluation as required by Executive Order(s) 11988, in accordance with HUD regulations at 24 CFR 55.20 Subpart C Procedures for Making Determinations on Floodplain Management and Wetlands Protection. The activity is funded under ADECA’s ARC Program Project No. AL-21655-2024. The proposed project(s) is located throughout the town of Winfield, AL located in both Marion and Fayette Counties. The proposed project aims to provide efficient sewer infrastructure and safe wastewater treatment to the businesses surrounding the I-22 corridor and Industrial Business Park. Project will include the replacement of 400 linear feet of 8-inch gravity sewer mains, replacing panels, pumps and CMU blocks, and screen and telemetry units, retrofitted with a backup power supply at all three lift stations. The infrastructures in question have surpassed their usefulness of life and are essential to the quality of life for its community members by preventing continued I /I (inflow and infiltration) and improving environmental quality by preventing effluent from being discharged. Approximately 800 acres will be affected in this project.
Winfield Water Works and Sewer Board has considered the following alternatives and mitigation measures to be taken to minimize adverse impacts and to restore and preserve natural and beneficial values: The proposed project, water infrastructure rehabilitation, includes replacing several main and gravity sewer lines which have gone past its usefulness of life throughout the City of Winfield; those mains do cross over several portions of Zone A and Zone AE, requiring the activity take place in floodplain and/or wetland areas. Here is the list of alternatives considered for the project:
Option 1: Do nothing and continue to operate the system in a inefficient manner and incur potential violations on NPDES Pollutant Limitations and SSO Occurrences; Option 2: Remove and replace existing Sewer Lines and Lift Station noted in the Project Area. However, the cost of doing this method would cost an estimated $13,000,000.00; Option 3: Repair the structurally unstable creek crossing, rehabilitate gravity lines in areas of known to have I/I occurrences and rehabilitate three Lift Station. The total estimated cost is $1,227,000.00; Option 4: Repair the existing Lift Station, repair unstable creek crossing, replace portion of gravity lines in Project Areas. Total Estimated Cost is $5,650,000.00.
The City will ensure this project, as modified and described above, is executed, and necessary language will be included in all agreements with participating parties. The city will also take an active role in monitoring the construction process to ensure no unnecessary impacts occur. To preserve lives, local law enforcement and the emergency broadcast system will implement an early warning system should flooding conditions arise. In addition to the warning system, law enforcement has an emergency evacuation and relocation plan in place.
Winfield Water Works and Sewer Board has reevaluated the alternatives to building and has determined that it has no practicable alternative. Upon completing the floodplain and wetland areas evaluation process, a designation of no significant, adverse effects was considered for this project.
Additionally, correspondence with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Agency deemed the project to have no significant adverse effects to local natural habitats in the project area. Environmental files that document compliance with steps 3 through 6 of floodplain and/or wetland areas assessment is available for public inspection, review and copying upon request at the times and location delineated in the last paragraph of this notice for receipt of comments.
There are three primary purposes for this notice. First, people who may be affected by activities in a floodplain and/or wetland areas and those who have an interest in the protection of the natural environment should be given an opportunity to express their concerns and provide information about these areas. Second, an adequate public notice program can be an important public educational tool. The dissemination of information and request for public comment about floodplain and/or wetland areas can facilitate and enhance Federal efforts to reduce the risks and impacts associated with the occupancy and modification of these special areas. Third, as a matter of fairness, when the Federal government determines it will participate in actions taking place in floodplain and/or wetland areas, it must inform those who may be put at greater or continued risk.
Written comments must be received by the Winfield Water Works and Sewer Board at the following address on or before 10/10/2024 , Winfield Water Works and Sewer Board. 160 City Hall St. Winfield, AL 35594 and phone number, Attention: James Markham, Chairman. A full description of the project may also be reviewed from Weekdays 8:00 am- 5:00 pm at the same address above. Comments may also be submitted via email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
10/2/2024
Winfield Park & Rec submitted a grant application for the Bobcat Park & Rec Makeover Contest. We have advanced to the top 5 nationally, and we are the only park in the southeast that is still in the contest. Help us win the $100,000.00 grand prize! Please go to bobcat.com/parkmakeover and vote for our project. Be sure to share with your friends and family. You can vote once per day until voting closes on 10-3. When you click on vote, you will need to scroll down below the pictures and enter your email address.
This grant would renovate our girls softball and Buddy Ball field and make the field, restrooms, sidewalks completely accessible and add paving to the roadway through the park for better accessibility. Since 2014, Winfield Park and Rec has been on a mission to make all areas of the park 100% accessible. We have added new accessible bleachers, bleacher pads and restrooms with adult changing tables. We have also added an adaptive athletics program so that all children have an equal opportunity to play organized sports in the park.
Partnering with the Winfield City High School Varsity and Junior Varsity Baseball teams, Buddy Ball Baseball was our first program in the spring of 2023. We then added Adaptive basketball in the winter of 2023. It has been such an amazing opportunity to witness the joy and happiness on the faces of the children who participated in these programs. Glory Baptist Church of Winfield and Mosaic United Methodist Church of Winfield brought their congregations to the park and filled the bleachers and gyms during games to support these players.
The City of Winfield offers automatic bank draft service for payment of garbage collection fees. To sign up for this service, download the Debit Authorization Form below, fill it out and return it to City Hall. Your garbage collection fees will be automatically deducted from your bank account each month.