Westside III Pressure Plane: Approximately 500 acres of Walsh Ranch lies in this pressure plane and is served from two sources: the existing 16-inch water main located 1,000 feet to the east at IH 30, and Linkcrest and the existing ground storage facility located on Westpoint Boulevard 3 miles east of Walsh Ranch.

Westside IV Pressure Plane: The majority of Walsh Ranch falls within this pressure plane. Westside IV will be served by the extension of a 24-inch water transmission main in Westpoint Boulevard westerly to a proposed water storage facility located one mile north of Walsh Ranch on the future extension of Walsh Ranch Parkway and the extension of an additional 24-inch transmission main to the raw water treatment plant site.

Westside V Pressure Plane: The southwestern and western portions of Walsh Ranch are situated in Westside V, which is the highest of the three pressure planes at elevations of 950 and above. This pressure plane will be served via a new pumping station at the Westside IV storage facility through a future extension of a 24-inch water transmission main to a reserved 30-acre site for a proposed water storage facility and raw water treatment plant. This location is the highest elevation in Tarrant County at over 1,000 and is an ideal spot for this storage facility.

The overall water distribution system, as it expands across these different pressure planes and evolves throughout the chronological phases of Walsh Ranch and the other adjacent areas it will serve, will be designed and constructed to deliver a high level of water quality and adequate quantity of water to the residents and businesses of Walsh Ranch and the City of Fort Worth while observing and ensuring the City's goal of being environmentally sensitive and friendly.

Raw Water Treatment

In order to meet the demands of the projected population growth in the western portions of Fort Worth and Walsh Ranch, the City of Fort Worth has identified the need for a new raw water treatment plant in that area. The 30-acre site reserved on the western edge of Walsh Ranch and immediately

Wastewater Collection

The Walsh Ranch topography stretches across four distinct watersheds or in the case of wastewater collection, sewersheds. Listed from north to south and named after their watersheds they are 1) Mary's Creek/Little Mary's Creek, 2) Patterson Branch, 3) South Mary's Creek and 4) Walnut Creek, which flows to the southeast away from the first three sewersheds. Trunk sanitary sewer mains will be designed and constructed within these sewersheds for the collection and transport of wastewater generated from the residential, school, business and recreational uses that develop within the limits of each sewershed.

The wastewater collection systems installed to serve the areas south of IH 30 (South Mary's Creek and Walnut Creek sewersheds) will utilize sewer pumping stations to lift the wastewater into the Patterson Creek sewershed and then by gravity flow to the wastewater treatment facility. The plan to incorporate these lift stations in the southern sewersheds will introduce more wastewater to the new treatment facility, resulting in additional gray-water production for irrigation uses, thereby conserving water and protecting the environment. At the same time this plan will significantly reduce the economic impact of having to reconstruct / rehabilitate the existing downstream wastewater collection system and Village Creek Treatment Plant, all of which would be required if these sewersheds were not lifted to the new treatment facility.

The construction of the Walsh Ranch wastewater collection system will be accomplished in full compliance with the City of Fort Worth standards and guidelines.

Wastewater Treatment

As in the case of raw water treatment, the City of Fort Worth has also recognized the need to plan for the demands of the projected population growth in the western portions of Fort Worth and Walsh Ranch in terms of wastewater treatment. The magnitude of the estimated demographics and

In keeping with the goal to be environmentally sensitive, a wastewater treatment plant site has been identified on Mary's Creek adjacent to the current Waste Management landfill and north of the proposed Walsh Ranch Community Park. A facility at this location will intercept by gravity flow all of the Mary's Creek/Little Mary's Creek and Patterson Branch sewersheds which equates to 20 square miles, 10.8 square miles from the South Mary's Creek and Walnut Creek sewersheds south of IH 30 via lift stations and, finally, 4.4 square miles of the Mary's Creek sewershed that is situated adjacent or immediately downstream from the plant site. This total service area is 35.2 square miles and put in perspective it is slightly less than the total city limit area of Hurst, Euless and Bedford at 36 square miles.

Conservation Via Gray-Water Utilization

The goal of Walsh Ranch will be to employ the use of gray-water (wastewater treatment effluent) to supplement the irrigation required for the proposed golf courses, City parks and recreational fields. Teaming with the City of Fort Worth during the planning and development of the future wastewater treatment facility, the golf course and park designers and engineers will bring this vision to realty. The generation of this cost- effective irrigation water will conserve water consumption and discharge less wastewater effluent into the Mary's Creek watershed, further fulfilling the City of Fort Worth and Walsh Ranch's commitment to water conservation and environmentally friendly growth.

Technology Infrastructure

Walsh Ranch recognizes the value of the ability to communicate and share information in the busy lifestyle of today's Texan. Walsh Ranch will promote the use of state-of-the-art technology and communication systems that will connect its residents, schools and businesses with each other and to the rest of the world. The elements of Walsh Ranch’s technology infrastructure may include: telephone, internet connectivity, community intranet, home intelligence and home, business and community security.