6.1h ERMUSR 06-14-2022UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING
TO:FROM:
ERMU Commission Chris Sumstad– Electric Superintendent
MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER:
June 14, 2022 6.1h
SUBJECT:
Staff Update
ACTION REQUESTED:
None
DISCUSSION:
Installed 18 new residential services, which involves the connection of a secondary line
once the customer requests service.
Finished relocating our infrastructure for the Highway 169 Redefine near Highway
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10/101 and Highway 169/5 Street. This completes the relocation plans for ERMU.
Work for the projectgoing forward should be smaller in scope, focusing on power needs
for lighting, signals, cameras, etc. as the project progresses the next few years.
Finished the first phase of the rerouting and installing of primary line for the new lab at
Cargill Animal Nutrition. We will return for phase 2 once the lab’s shell is up, installing a
new three phase service and new primary underground line in Fall 2022.
Started rebuilding a portion of the overhead line along Highway 10 in front of the old
Saxon Motors. Taller poles and larger wire are being installed. The new services for the
apartment buildings currently under construction near there will be served from this
new line.
We have started to rebuild a section of overhead line along Viking Boulevard east of
County Road13. Sherburne County is starting a road construction project in July and our
line needed to be relocated farther back in the right of way.
Crews beganworkfor the Cargill Feed Mill project on May 31. We need to relocate a
section of underground primary line and install a three-phaseservice for the new mill.
Joe Schmitt from Minnesota Municipal Utilities Association (MMUA) was here on May
26 and 27 and trained staff on Confined Space Entry.
Rich Maxwell from MMUA was here on May 24 and presented the quarterly Job Training
& Safety presentation. The topic was meter socket safety.
Mitch Girtz and Tyler Meyers attended MMUA Underground School in Marshall, May
10-13 and Scott Thoreson was there as an instructor.
Matt Duitsman started as our temporary line worker on May 11. He is an Elk River
native and just recently graduated from the lineworker program atMinnesota State -
Wadena.
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