6.1c ERMUSR 01-14-2020UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING
TO:FROM:
ERMU Commission Mark Fuchs – Operations Director
MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER:
January 14, 2020 6.1c
SUBJECT:
Staff Update
ACTION REQUESTED:
None
DISCUSSION:
Had 8 new house services.
Continue collecting data with the GPS for our ArcView maps as time permits.
Completed transfer tothe new underground infrastructure for the Lawatsch Farms
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Addition, Pascal Street, Troy Street, and 189 Avenue. We are working on removing the
old overhead infrastructure.
Still waiting on a shipment of decorative poles that will be used for the one remaining
downtown light that still needs to be replaced, and for 29 lights along Quaday Avenue in
Otsego.
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Started rebuilding the three phase overhead line on Jarvis Street between 165 Avenue
and Highway 10. This is a project we have been working on in the winter months when
the ground is frozen. There are some three phase undergroundlinesthat will need to be
installed before we can finish the project.
Continue work on the replacement of seven poles that didn’t pass inspection. This task
will be performed between other jobs as they come in.
The contract tree trimming service continues work and ERMU line crews havealso
started trimming.
We had service fail at two houses, one required thereplacement of theunderground
line, and with the other house, the underground line was repaired.
A vehicle strucka three phase riser pole at the entrance to the landfill which needed to
be replaced. A single phase padmount transformerson County Road 33 was struck by a
vehicle and alsoneeded to be replaced. Anothersingle phase padmount transformer in
Otsego was struck by a snowmobile andjust needed to be put back on the pad.
Scott Thoreson and Matt Zipp attended Minnesota Municipal Utilities Association
(MMUA) Transformer School, December 10-13, in Marshall, MN.
We are developing the specs for the new power plant substation transformer, which is
scheduled to go out for bid in January. We will be moving the power plant substation as
well as the overhead and underground infrastructure so we can begin work on the new
Field Services Building in 2021.
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