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UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING <br />TO:FROM: <br />ERMU Commission Thomas Geiser – Operations Director <br />MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: <br />September 14, 2021 6.1g <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff Update <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />None <br />DISCUSSION: <br /> Staff continues to meet with T2 Utility Engineers, WSB Engineering, and MnDOT for the <br />upcoming Highway 169 Redefine project. Permits have been approved and we are in full <br />constructionmodeon the electric side of things.We are working with Great River <br />Energy (GRE), asthey have ninepolesalong the highwaythat need tobemoveor <br />replaced, and we have three phase lines attached to those poles. All underground lines <br />th rd <br />Avenue and 193 Avenue. We will be tearingdown <br />are installed and energized at 197 <br />overhead lines as needed this fall and are currently focusing on the work to be done at <br />School Street and Main Street. <br /> <br />All poles and wire have been moved for the work on County Road 13and all customers <br />have been transferred over to the new service line. We are working with New Look <br />Contracting, Inc. on the timing for moving one three phase riser pole at the corner of <br />Line Avenue and County Road 13. <br /> <br />Workingwith the owners of the refuse-derived fuel processing plant and GREto make <br />the transition from GRE’s 69-kilovolt transmission line to ERMU’s distribution grid. Staff <br />has complete installation of the necessary underground infrastructure for the transition, <br />which is planned for September 20. The loop feed will be installed later this fall. <br /> <br /> Storms during the week of August 23 caused several outages; lighting strikes being the <br />main source, tree falls were also responsible for two of them. <br /> <br /> Staff has been in the process of developing budgets for Capital Projects, which will be <br />presented at the September commission meeting. <br /> <br /> Attended meetings with the County on planning for County Road 33 and County Road <br />44 projects. <br /> <br />______________________________________________________________________________ <br />Page 1 of 1 <br />97 <br />