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��i <br />Elk River <br />Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING <br />TO: <br />FROM: <br />ERMU Commission <br />Mike Tietz —Technical Services Superintendent <br />MEETING DATE: <br />AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: <br />February 11, 2025 <br />6.1g <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff Update <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />None <br />DISCUSSION: <br />• In January, locators processed 121 locate tickets. These consisted of 67 normal tickets, 9 <br />emergency tickets, 33 updated tickets, 4 meets, 2 boundary surveys, 4 cancellations and <br />2 non -excavations. This resulted in a 7.1% increase in tickets from the previous month <br />and a 30.1% increase from the prior January. <br />• Electrical technicians completed 324 service order tasks, updated the power bill, <br />addressed customer meter issues and any off-peak concerns. <br />• Staff continues to research the geospatial location requirements mandated by the State. <br />Current work practices will have to change to accommodate this requirement, but we <br />are trying to get a solution in place before the start of the construction season. <br />• The Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) residential water meters and residential <br />electric meters continue to be installed in new services. The electrical technicians have <br />been busy changing out our Automated Meter Reading to AMI meters for off-peak <br />around the system. Approximately 4,600 water meters and 8,300 electric meters are <br />currently active within our AMI system. <br />• On January 26, there was another catastrophic failure of a Cooper/Eaton switchgear. <br />This is a major safety concern for us, and we are taking immediate steps to abate this <br />issue by dehydrating the oil. Staff are preparing a trailer -mounted oil collection system <br />that will be used to transport the contaminated oil to our maintenance bay where we <br />will have a rented vacuum dehydrator recondition the oil overnight before being used in <br />another switchgear. This should bring the moisture levels down to an acceptable level. <br />Picture below. <br />• Connexus Energy discontinued use of their feeder tie at Station 14 sub on January 23. <br />• Our monthly peak was 50.80 MW on January 20 at 5:35pm. <br />Page 1 of 2 <br />124 <br />