An affordable and strategic approach to achieving JCW's mission of protecting the environment, serving our customers and enhancing our community.
JCW's 25-Year Integrated Plan:
Renewing Life's Essential
What is Integrated Planning?
An Integrated Plan (IP) supports strategic and financial planning by examining an organization’s existing resources and future needs. It is a thoughtful, equitable, and collaborative process for developing a long-term investment plan that:
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Promotes efficient use of resources and improved system reliability.
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Balances multiple system priorities such as serving growth areas, preserving human and environmental health, and maintaining a high quality of life for our customers.
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Minimizes unnecessary social and environmental impacts.​
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Every 5 years, the plan is reviewed and updated. With Phase 2 of the Integrated Plan, JCW incorporated new data and metrics to refine our long-term planning and investment strategies, with a continued focus on achieving our mission and maintaining rate stability for customers. Phase 2 Implementation will run from 2025 until 2029.​​
​The JCW Integrated Planning Process
In 2019, JCW began working on a long-term strategic initiative called the JCW Integrated Plan. The Integrated Plan aims to align future capital investments with JCW’s mission of providing a high level of service to our customers, protecting the environment, and enhancing our community. JCW developed the Integrated Plan in accordance with the federal Clean Water Act. It prioritizes projects and investments that address critical environmental and public health issues, solve infrastructure challenges, and enhance public goals.
JCW’s Integrated Plan is an affordable and strategic plan to enhance our community, protect water quality, and ensure the long-term viability of our system.
Despite facing unprecedented challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain issues, and cost escalations, JCW successfully delivered Phase 1 of the Integrated Plan (2020-2024). The Phase 1 Integrated Plan garnered national attention and was recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in their 2021 Report to Congress on Integrated Planning.
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Looking to the Future
Phase 2 of the Integrated Plan
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS (2019)
Phase 1 Plan Development
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Defined System Needs Based on Available Information
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Stakeholder Engagement
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Initial Investment Prioritization
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Identified Data Gaps and Study Needs
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Long-Term Wet Weather Management Certainty
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS (2020-2024)
Phase 1 Plan Implementation and
Phase 2 Plan Development
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Completed Tomahawk WWTF and Began Construction on Nelson WWTF
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Established Long Term Plans:
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Mill Creek, Blue River, Middle Basin, and New Century WWTFs
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Nelson Service Area, Indian Creek, Leawood, Tomahawk Creek Collection Systems
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Developed a Balanced Investment Schedule
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Enhanced Community Engagement
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Refined Long-Range Investment Priorities and Schedule
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Implemented Adaptive Management Process
Investments and Upgrades
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Areas of Immediate Need
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Wastewater Treatment Facilities Improvements
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Collection System Maintenance and Renewal
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Wet Weather Management Strategies
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Pumping Facility Performance
Areas of Continuous Need
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Aging Infrastructure
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Complex Water Quality Issues
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System-Wide Wet Weather Capacity
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Community Growth and Redevelopment
Enhancing Our Community and Focusing on the Future
Water is a crucial element in our everyday lives, but population growth and intensifying weather events are changing the way water resources are operated and maintained. At present, Johnson County Wastewater provides sanitary sewer services for more than 500,000 people in Johnson County, KS. This requires JCW to operate and maintain a large, complex system while thinking toward future investments that affordably enhance the resiliency of our infrastructure and maintain regulatory compliance.
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