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Elk River Municipal Utilities 13069 Orono Parkway P.O. Box 430 Elk River, MN 55330 (763) 441-2020 UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING TO: FROM: Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission David Berg— Superintendent of Water John Dietz, Chair Services Daryl Thompson, Vice Chair Allan Nadeau, Trustee MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: December 12, 2012 6.1 SUBJECT: Staff Update DISCUSSION: • On November 28`h, 2012, three water operators, one office staff employee and a City building inspector went to St. Cloud for training on backflow prevention. The Minnesota Department of Health is starting to enforce backflow prevention and will require that water suppliers have a program to check all backflow prevention devices. Water suppliers must enforce installation at locations that may not have a device installed currently. We plan to have a presentation about this topic at our April 2013 Minnesota Rural Water training, which we will host again. Other utilities have already started their backflow prevention programs with great success in being proactive with protecting water quality. • The water department has been staying busy with many jobs that had been put to the side with the lack of employees. Eric Volk joined the water department last month and with the increase in personnel we have been able to address more of the random, but needed tasks amongst the regular jobs. Items such as: pump repairs, final meter change outs, well cleaning, tower cleaning, inventory shelving/organization, hydrant repairs, and shut offs etc... Each water operator has taken time to show our new employee the water system and detail for jobs that we may do individually. Overall, Eric seems to be fitting in and continues to gain knowledge in the Elk River water system. POWERED B1 Reliable Public 'NATURE Power Provider P O W E R E D T o S E R V E