4.2. ERMUSR 09-10-2013 Elk River —.
Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING
TO: FROM:
Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission Wade Lovelette—Superintendent of Technical
John Dietz—Chair Services
Al Nadeau—Vice Chair
Daryl Thompson—Trustee
MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER:
September 10, 2013 4.2
SUBJECT:
North Substation Upgrade Update
DISCUSSION:
The preliminary work for the upgrade at the North Substation has begun. Granite City Construction has
started the excavation work for widening the driveway to the substation and expanding the parking area.
A temporary fence had to be put in place for the landowner's cattle until the dirt work was complete.
After that was completed, the permanent fence was put back up and a new gate was installed for him.
We have five substation meters inside the meter building that have to be moved to an outside wall. Our
meter technicians took care of this project on August 28th.
We are scheduled to switch out the North Substation on September 24th,remove the 10.5 MVA
transformer on September 25th and install the new substation transformer on September 26th. We are
planning for a two week outage on that substation to get everything wired and installed. The North
Substation should be back online by October 8th.
I have a slide show of some preliminary photos of how the substation looks before the upgrade takes
place. We will show this during the meeting.
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