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Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING
TO:
FROM:
ERMU Commission
Mike Tietz —Technical Services Superintendent
MEETING DATE:
AGENDA ITEM NUMBER:
February 11, 2025
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SUBJECT:
Staff Update
ACTION REQUESTED:
None
DISCUSSION:
• In January, locators processed 121 locate tickets. These consisted of 67 normal tickets, 9
emergency tickets, 33 updated tickets, 4 meets, 2 boundary surveys, 4 cancellations and
2 non -excavations. This resulted in a 7.1% increase in tickets from the previous month
and a 30.1% increase from the prior January.
• Electrical technicians completed 324 service order tasks, updated the power bill,
addressed customer meter issues and any off-peak concerns.
• Staff continues to research the geospatial location requirements mandated by the State.
Current work practices will have to change to accommodate this requirement, but we
are trying to get a solution in place before the start of the construction season.
• 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 out our Automated Meter Reading to AMI meters for off-peak
around the system. Approximately 4,600 water meters and 8,300 electric meters are
currently active within our AMI system.
• On January 26, there was another catastrophic failure of a Cooper/Eaton switchgear.
This is a major safety concern for us, and we are taking immediate steps to abate this
issue by dehydrating the oil. Staff are preparing a trailer -mounted oil collection system
that will be used to transport the contaminated oil to our maintenance bay where we
will have a rented vacuum dehydrator recondition the oil overnight before being used in
another switchgear. This should bring the moisture levels down to an acceptable level.
Picture below.
• Connexus Energy discontinued use of their feeder tie at Station 14 sub on January 23.
• Our monthly peak was 50.80 MW on January 20 at 5:35pm.
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