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,"~~i Elk River -== Municipal Utilities 13069 Orono Parkway • P.O. Box 430 Elk River, MN 55330-0430 April 9, 2008 To: Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission Jerry Takle John Dietz Jerry Gumphrey From: Bryan Adams Subject: Miscellaneous Issues Phone: 763.441.2020 Fax: 763.441.8099 F,nclosed is the packet for Thursday, April 17, 2008 commission meeting at 4:00 p.m. Water aril e?.ectric usage to date remain well above last year at 13.2% and 10.5% respectively. The construction of Well #9 has been completed. Pump house construction for this facility has started but is a little behind schedule. On April 4, 2008 we completed a float down inspection of the Gary Street v~ater tower in preparatiorL for preparing engineering drawings and specification to paint this tower next spring. Afloat down inspection is placing a person in the water tower in a raft and emptying the tower. This allows inspection of the. roof rafters and side walk for paint failure. l'1^.e 4`" Street water main project will start in a week and should take about a month. As you may recall., the projects entails installing 12" HDFE water main from Ott' Street arxd Morton Ave. on the south side of Hwy 10 going east under Hwy 10 and the railroad tracks to 4t" Street and Jackson Ave. The electric department continues the tree trimming efforts and replacing out cut-outs. We are finding a surprising number of cut-outs that have failed. We are very fortunate to find and replace then before more outages occur. As you may recall, we are in the process of buying into the tru:lsmission system through CMMPA. Elk River has an opportunity to register our transmission facilities with MISO and receive a return on this investment. We have approximately $474,000 of transmission investments which relates to an approximate $61,000 annual return. This is an unexpected and pleasant surprise fiom our relationship with CMMPA.