6.1c ERMUSR 03-12-2019 Elk River
Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING
TO: FROM:
ERMU Commission Mark Fuchs—Electric Superintendent
MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER:
March 12, 2019 6.1c
SUBJECT:
Staff Update
ACTION REQUESTED:
None
DISCUSSION:
• We had 11 new house services.
• Continued collecting data with the GPS for our ArcView maps as time permits.
• Continued tree trimming.
• Continued rebuilding the three phase overhead line on Jarvis Street between 165th
Avenue and Highway 10.
• Finished testing the overhead and underground protective grounds, the fiberglass hot
sticks, and cleaning the truck booms for their inspection. These are all done annually.
• A Sherburne County snow plow truck struck a single phase transformer on County Road
33, west of County Road 1.
• We had two street lights that were struck by vehicles, one at 195th Lane and Proctor
Road, and one at 192nd Lane and Ivanhoe Drive.
• We had a single phase transformer and a secondary pedestal get damaged when a
private contractor operating a payloader was removing snow on 172nd Lane in the
Woods of Elk River Station addition.
• We assisted in fixing the windmill generator on 225th Avenue for ENEL after a jumper
wire broke on the overhead power line.They will be charged for time and materials.
• Zac Johnson and Jake Koehler attended the Minnesota Municipal Utilities Association
(MMUA) Meter School held February 12-15 in Marshall, MN.
• Zac Johnson, Matt Schwartz, and Jake Koehler will be competing as a journeymen team
at the American Public Power Agency (APPA) Lineworkers Rodeo being held March 29-
30 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. They also attended a rodeo clinic that MMUA puts on
in Marshall, MN on February 27-28. I will be a judge at the Lineworkers Rodeo and will
also be attending the Engineering and Operations Technical Conference immediately
following the rodeo, March 31-April 3.
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