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Elk River
Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING
TO:
FROM:
ERMU Commission
Mike Tietz —Technical Services Superintendent
MEETING DATE:
AGENDA ITEM NUMBER:
November 14, 2023
6.01g
SUBJECT:
Staff Update
ACTION REQUESTED:
None
DISCUSSION:
• In October, the locators processed 464 locate tickets. These consisted of 364 normal
tickets, 2 emergency tickets, 59 updated tickets, 23 cancellations, 13 meets, 2 non -
excavation and 1 boundary survey. This resulted in a 14.4% decrease in tickets from the
previous month and is a 7.9% increase from the prior October.
• Electrical technicians completed 197 service order tasks, updated the power bill,
addressed customer meter issues and any off-peak concerns.
• The Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) residential water meters and residential
electric meters have been starting to get installed in new services and where we may
have had an existing meter failure. We are working with our consultant, Rick Schmidt,
on evaluating the AMI Endpoint Installation proposals that were opened on November
6. We are still anticipating a start date of March 2024 for mass deployment of meters.
• For the month of October, staff did not run generators. Engine #4 is still waiting on plugs
that are on backorder.
• Staff completed the scheduled recloser tank replacements for Feeder 95 and also
replaced Feeder 96 and 93 reclosers after testing was performed due to issues that
were found. Load tap changer and relay testing and maintenance at our Station 14
substation was completed. We are still working on getting fiber communications
completed to this substation before freeze-up this year.
• Our yearly oil samples of substation equipment, line regulators, and oil filled switchgear
have been completed. Test results came back with only Station 14, Bank #3's
transformer showing an elevated amount of ethylene gas which we will need to monitor
closely. This will help us identify any issues before they become a problem.
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