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Elk River Municipal Utiliries 13069 Orono Parkway . P.O. Box 430 Phone: 763.441.2020 Elk River, NIN 55330-0430 Fax: 763.441.8099 TO: Elk River Utilities Commission John Dietz Jerry Gumphrey Daryl Thompson FROM: Wade Lovelette SUBJ: Staff Update -Technical Services Department The following is a summary of projects and/or updates over the past several weeks: The locating department had a total of 236 locate tickets for October. Some of them are meets which require several trips back to the same area as needed to mark utilities. 2. The Metering Department continues with weekly and monthly substation checks, changing out meters to the radio read meters, and doing the monthly power bill. While using the infrared camera, the metering dept discovered three elbow arresters overheating in two 3-phase transformers. The Line Department was able to change them out before they failed. The Security Systems Department had a total of 63 phone contacts, 20 personal visits, 20 systems quoted, 16 sales made, 13 installs completed and 17 service calls for the month of October. We also had one non-monitored system install and one system prewired. 4. Map books continue to be updated daily as crews add or change items in them. Richard Wagner has also been working on drawing up the MMUA spec book on AutoCAD and getting those drawings to MMUA. 5. Power plant staff has performed the monthly run of the generators and everything looked good. Steve Ziemer is working on a written lock-out tag-out procedure on every piece of equipment within the power plant. This is required by OSHA. He found a broken electric cut-off switch that needs to be replaced by an electrician. 6. The parking lot at the power plant has been blacktopped and finished. It looks very nice and it looks as if it has resolved the drainage issue. I would like to extend a big thanks to Phil Hals and the City Street Department for helping us out and for all who helped with this project.