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5. Completed approximately 2,633 locates. Once again, locates were completed without damage claims resulting from workmanship. 6. Maintain and operate the diesel Power Plant. This facility has the ability to start from compress air (in the case of a transmission outage) and is rated to generate approximately 1 /5 of ERMU's peak electric demand. WATER DEPARTMENT -David Berg -Water Superintendent 1. Produced 782 million gallons of water for a decrease of 8.4% from 2008. Peak day use of 5.4 million gallons (same as 2008). 2. Held a 2009 Water Conservation Seminar with the City and County to present to associations and large water consumers. Added over one mile of new water main in conjunction with the 193`d Avenue road extension project. Also added new water main connecting new 193~d Avenue water main with Well #9. Completed changes water hydrants needed to facilitate the Morton road resurfacing project. 4. Implemented Smart Irrigation System rebates. 5. Continued working on wellhead protection plan. 6. Continued working with communication companies to establish a lease format for antennas to be located on water towers. ELECTRIC DEPARTMENT -Mark Fuchs -Electric Superintendent 1. Purchased approximately 247.5 million kWh of energy with a peak day of 50 MW. Even with the downturn in economy, the energy usage increased 2.3% over last year. 2. ERMU's 2009 reliability indexes are: Average Service Availability (ASAI) = 99.999%, Customer Average Interruption Duration Index (CAIDI) = 137 min, System Average Interruption Duration Index (SAIDI) = 5.1 min, System Average Interruption Frequency Index (SAIFI) = 0.037. These excellent reliability indexes numbers reflect the condition of our system as well as our superb response time. 3. ERMU's landfill gas electric generating plant produced 26.1 million kWh with a capacity factor of 98.1 %. 4. ERMU sold 438,000 kWs from wind generators in 2010 through our Wind Power Program.