Oakland, Charter Township (Oakland, MI)
Oakland, Charter Township (Oakland, MI)
Water services are not managed by Oakland Township. For all inquiries related to water service, please contact the County Water Commissioner’s office directly.
Answers to questions from the August 13, 2019 meeting:
Tank Characteristics:
Capacity: 0.5 Million Gallons (500,000 gallons)
Proposed tank inside diameter is 57.0 ft. Outside diameter with brick cladding would be about 60.0 ft.
Wall elevation from floor of tank will be 28.0 with the dome adding another 6 to 8 feet. Total elevation would be up to 36.0 feet above the current ground level. Soil will be mounded around the base of the tank to protect against frost heaving so the tank will look shorter than it actually is.
Shape: typical plan and section details are attached from a tank manufacture OHM has worked with in the recent past. This manufacturer (DN TANK) has built tanks in Commerce Township, Novi, and Canton.
Regarding the question about why we do not add to existing storage sites or extend from the existing system. Briefly, the cost of connecting the systems together and/or connecting them to the GLWA system would be much, much more expensive than just building these two small tanks in the SE and SW water systems.
Bear Creek -We have not looked into deed restrictions for Bear Creek during this evaluation.
Project Innovations was retained in June 2017 by the Oakland County Water Resources Commissioner’s Office to distribute a water systems survey to Oakland Township businesses/residents in the Southeast and Southwest Water System Districts. On August 14, 2017 letters of invitation with separate surveys for the Southeast and Southwest Districts were mailed to 2,958 residents. There was a total of 2,204 mailed to the Southwest District and 754 mailed to the Southeast District.