6.1E. ERMUSR 10-13-15 Elk River
Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING
TO: FROM:
Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission Eric Volk- Water Superintendent
John Dietz—Chair
Al Nadeau—Vice Chair
Daryl Thompson—Trustee
MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER:
October 13, 2015 6.1e
SUBJECT:
Staff Update
DISCUSSION:
• Delivered eight new residential water meters.
• Sealed the water meter, and took curb stop ties from eleven water services.
• Turned on two water services, and two electric services.
• Turned off three water services, and two electric services.
• Went on six service calls.
• Completed 25 BACTIITotal Chlorine Residual Samples
o All confirmed negative for Coliform Bacteria.
• Completed 20 routine fluoride samples
o All samples met MDH standards.
• Fire hydrant preventative maintenance has been completed for 2015. The total amount of
fire hydrants that were serviced amounts to an astonishing 485 hydrants; this figure
includes 250 hydrants owned by the utility, 166 private hydrants, and another 85 hydrants
that were serviced by the water operators and painted by the HOG Chapter. At this rate,
all 1200+hydrants in Elk River will have preventative maintenance in four years; one
year ahead of schedule.
• Angela Hauge has started the long and tedious task of validating all of our GIS based
water maps. This will help to ensure that all of our valves are located on the proper water
mains and that there are no valves or hydrants missing from the map.
• Dave Ninow has been working on locating and upgrading all of our tracing wire that was
installed with most of the HDPE water main. In the process,he will install"Snakepit"
locating boxes at as many locations as possible.
• Mike Langer has a list of hydrant repairs that he is working on. These repairs were
identified during the preventative maintenance that was completed this summer.
• We cleaned out the Gary Street Water Tower and drained it in preparation of Slack
Painting coming out to paint the belly of the tank, the dry tube, and the top of the
condensate ceiling.
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• Justin Femrite and Brandon Wisner facilitated the restructuring of the YMCA pond back
into two separate ponds how it had previously been before the YMCA was built. This
was required because we backwash Well#4 into the pond. In the future, the YMCA will
be responsible for part of the pond maintenance, and we will be responsible for our own
part.
• Verizon Wireless is getting closer to installing antennas on the Auburn Street Water
Tower. Troy Adams is working on the contract and I am working on the site plans. After
this site is completed,we will have six attachment agreements on three different water
towers.
• We met again with Kodet Architectural. They have produced a couple of different
variations for the future field services expansion. We have not decided on a direction for
the new building, the current buildings, or the field services property. We have worked
hard with Brandon Wisner and Kristin Mroz from the city to ensure we are sensitive to
the wetlands located on the property. As we progress further in the process, we will bring
site and building plans to the commission.
• The water department will be hosting an intern from St. Cloud's Technical College Water
Environmental Technologies(WET) Program. He will be shadowing the water operators
October 26-30.
• I have been appointed as co-chair for the Training and Education Committee for the
Minnesota Section of the American Water Works Association(MN-AWWA). This four
year commitment consists of: first year is co-chair to be trained, second and third years
are chair, and the last year is co-chair to train my replacement.
ATTACHMENTS:
• September Pumping By Well
• September 2015 Daily Temperature Graph
• September 2015 Accumulated Precipitation Graph
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