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Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING
TO:
FROM:
ERMU Commission
Mike Tietz - Technical Services Superintendent
MEETING DATE:
AGENDA ITEM NUMBER:
June 4, 2024
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SUBJECT:
Staff Update
ACTION REQUESTED:
None
DISCUSSION:
• In May, the locators processed approximately 550 locate tickets. These consisted of 460
normal tickets, 6 emergency tickets, 54 updated tickets, 18 cancellations, 4 meets, 6
boundary surveys and 2 non -excavations. This resulted in a 14.1% increase in tickets
from the previous month and is a 16.2% decrease from the prior May.
• Electrical technicians completed approximately 350 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 continue to be installed in new services. The electrical technicians have
been busy changing from our Automated Meter Reading meters to AMI around the
system and recently completed the meter installations at the second Delta apartments
building. The TKDA inspector has begun random inspections of Allegiant's water meter
installations to make sure that the contractor is performing the work to ERMU's
standards and following the contract.
• For the month of May, staff ran generators at the power plant.
• Staff started annual substation maintenance in May, spraying herbicide to minimize
vegetation. Also, soil borings for East substation were completed.
• Connexus Energy utilized their feeder tie out of our North substation to backfeed part of
their load while they performed the five-year maintenance on their Zimmerman
substation.
• Great River Energy continues to utilize their feeder tie at Station #14, bank 3 substation.
They have indicated that they plan to use this tie through the month of May.
ATTACHMENT:
• Reliability Statistics— Follow Up from May Commission Meeting
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