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Existing Systems Overview projects completed in 2016, ACIP projects that must be completed by 2019, and projects that are currently identified but unfunded. Some of the benefits of performing projects concurrently include increased scheduling coordination, reduction of long term traffic impacts, and cost savings resulting from shared restoration costs. Maps of the ACIP and roadway repaving programs have been created to graphically describe the improvement locations and anticipated construction years. These maps can be seen on the following pages. 4.3.2 City of West Palm Beach The City of West Palm Beach provided atlas level GIS data for the water distribution system within the Town. The City provides the Town with drinking water under an inter-local agreement. Provided with the GIS data was information relative to the age of individual segments of the water system, such that when there are opportunities to replace watermains that have exceeded their useful life during the implementation of the undergrounding program, this work can be properly coordinated. The City does not TOWN-WIDE UNDERGROUNDING OF UTILITIES PROGRAM MASTER PLAN DOCUMENT currently have any organized program for the systematic replacement of these aged watermains, so replacement is expected to be performed on an opportunistic basis. Through an inter-local agreement with the City, the Town currently has up to $800,000 per year budgeted to perform such opportunistic watermain replacement. This budget will be beneficial in replacing some of the watermain infrastructure that may be in critical need due to advanced age. However, this budget will not be sufficient to replace all the watermains in Town that have exceeded their useful life. 4.3.3 City of Lake Worth The City of Lake Worth provided record drawing data in the area of the City’s Municipal limits (Lake Worth Beach) along SR A1A. The City owns and maintains their own electric utility and provides service to themselves in this area. These facilities will need to remain after completion of the program and will need to remain in service during the implementation of the program. The consultant team coordinated with various representatives from the City of Lake Worth regarding Lake Worth’s existing infrastructure, as well as any planned improvement projects within the limits of the Town’s proposed undergrounding program. Lake Worth indicated that they do not have any planned improvement projects that might impact the Town’s proposed undergrounding program. Lake Worth also confirmed that the City does not have any plans to underground the existing FPL overhead lines crossing their Lake Worth Beach and Casino property, but would not object to them being placed underground by the Town. During a field investigation, it was noted that the Lake Worth Beach and Casino property parking lot lighting on the north side of Lake Worth Road (fed by the Lake Worth electric system) has overhead wires that cross SR A1A overhead to serve the parking on the west side of the road. These overhead wires will remain after the project is complete because they are not part of the FPL system. 4.3.4 Town of South Palm Beach The Town of South Palm Beach provided record drawing and atlas level data in the area near the Town of Palm Beach southern municipal limits along SR A1A. The Town of South Palm Beach owns and maintains City of West Palm Beach watermain construction on Bradley Place DATA COLLECTION | 23