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UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING <br />TO: FROM: <br />ERMU Commission Chris Sumstad– Electric Superintendent <br />MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: <br />September 9, 20256.1f <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff Update <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />None <br />DISCUSSION: <br /> Installed 15 new residential services, which involves the connection of a secondary line <br />once the customer requests service. <br /> Joe Schmidt, Safety Instructor from Minnesota Municipal Utilities Association (MMUA), <br />was here August 27-28, and held safety meetings on aerial lift safety and job briefings. <br /> Crews worked in the Industrial Park in Elk River south of County Road 1 this past month <br />finishing up the wire replacement project along with new services to J&J Machine and <br />Timron Gear. <br /> The bore crew finished the wire replacement in the Sunset Ridge development. <br /> Crews responded to two separate incidents where a vehicle struck a feeder pole this <br />past month. The first was located in northern Elk River along Highway 169 and the <br />second on the eastside of Elk River along Highway10. The latter caused an outage to <br />over 700 customers at around 8:30 a.m. on September 2. The outage lasted about an <br />hour for 90% of those affected and full power was restored around 12:15 p.m. <br />A streetlight pole was toppled by a vehicle at Orono Drive and Main Street. <br /> Crews are replacing electric infrastructure including cabinets, transformers, and <br />pedestals. These were identified during winter system and map checks. <br /> The inventory & procurement crew has been receiving many material items for the East <br />substation project set to ramp up soon. They also shipped out many of the electric <br />meters that were changed during the Advanced Metering Infrastructure project, freeing <br />up space in the middle building at the field services building complex. <br /> Staff finished the annual tree trimming inspection of the system this past month. <br /> Congratulations to Scott Thoreson, retired ERMU Electric Foreperson, on receiving the <br />Lifetime Achievement Award at the MMUA Summer Conference in Rochester. <br /> <br />______________________________________________________________________________ <br />Page 1 of 1 <br />109 <br />