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Elk River .
Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING
TO: FROM:
ERMU Commission Mark Fuchs—Electric Superintendent
MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER:
July 11, 2017 6.1c
SUBJECT:
Staff Update
ACTION REQUESTED:
None
DISCUSSION:
• Had nine new house services.
• Continue working on collecting data with the GPS for our ArcView maps as time
permits.
• Finished rebuilding 165th Ave; this is in Area 2 that we acquired from Connexus.
• Continue construction on Waco 2 substation. We bored in the pipes for the feeders which
included three to the south across the railroad tracks and three to the east across County
Road 35.
• Finished making up seventeen residential lots at Wildflower Villas in Otsego.
• Continue working along Highway 10 from Gary Street to Xenia Avenue. We still need to
move a switchgear cabinet and some poles and anchors.
• Started installing a three phase underground service for the Elk River Senior Living
building on 183rd Circle.
• Last year Mi-Tech Pole Inspections Services tested some of our poles and found eight
poles that needed to be replaced; each year we have a certain amount of poles tested. We
just completed changing out the final pole that failed last year's inspection.
• In the process of replacing an old underground primary tap on 221st Avenue. We are
also replacing two shorter primary overhead taps with underground secondary; this will
help out with some trees and clearance issues.
• We were visually locating the underground feeders at the Field Services Building when a
splice failed on the primary wire causing an outage. The failure occurred while
excavating with the Vac-tron which uses high pressure water and vacuum to suck the
mud out of the hole to aid in finding the wire. We figure when the contractor back-filled
the splice pit years ago there may have been garbage with sharp objects in it which cut
into the splice over time, and just happened to go bad while excavating.
• Finished up the necessary repairs due to the June 11 storm.
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