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Elk River <br />Municipal Utilities <br />13069 Orono Parkway • P.O. Box 430 <br />Elk River, MN 55330-0430 <br />May 4, 2009 <br />TO: Elk River Utilities Commission <br />John Dietz <br />Jerry Gumphrey <br />Daryl Thompson <br />FROM : Mark Fuchs <br />SUBJ: Staff Update -Electric Department <br />The following is a summary of projects and/or updates over the past several weeks: <br />Phone: 763.441.2020 <br />Fax: 763.441.8099 <br />1. The new 3-phase service at Aggregate Industries has been completed. <br />2. Changed out the life safety service transformer at United Health Group. We had placed a <br />larger transformer here for their temporary service. <br />3. Cleaned up oil spill at Dolphin Car Wash where a transformer was damaged this winter. <br />We also had a spill at 607 Jefferson Lane from a bad elbow. The contaminated soil will <br />hopefully get disposed of at SKB Environmental. <br />4. Commercial Asphalt moved their 3-phase transformer and added a generator to get on <br />ERMU's dispersed generation / interruptible load program. <br />5. Finished up tree trimming until this fall. <br />6. Started the 193rd road project. <br />7. Replaced five secondaries that had gone bad over the winter. <br />8. Started putting in house services, six as of May l st <br />9. Working on getting the Gasboy installed. The Gasboy will monitor the fuel and <br />maintenance of the vehicles. <br />10. The new bucket truck was delivered on April 24tH <br />11. The change out of the overhead cutouts and fuses will be on hold until this winter. We <br />will start to change out the fuse pad mounts and fuses for the summer. <br />12. The Commission inquired on the status of the Vac-tron last month. It would cost <br />approximately $4000 to repair if it broke down. In the meantime we have replaced the <br />filters. <br />13. We have had problems with our 960 cable plow in the past and now the City mechanics <br />are fixing a problem in the rear end. <br />