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Elk River <br /> Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING <br /> TO: FROM: <br /> Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission Eric Volk- Water Superintendent <br /> John Dietz—Chair <br /> Al Nadeau—Vice Chair <br /> Daryl Thompson—Trustee <br /> MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: <br /> October 13, 2015 6.1e <br /> SUBJECT: <br /> Staff Update <br /> DISCUSSION: <br /> • Delivered eight new residential water meters. <br /> • Sealed the water meter, and took curb stop ties from eleven water services. <br /> • Turned on two water services, and two electric services. <br /> • Turned off three water services, and two electric services. <br /> • Went on six service calls. <br /> • Completed 25 BACTIITotal Chlorine Residual Samples <br /> o All confirmed negative for Coliform Bacteria. <br /> • Completed 20 routine fluoride samples <br /> o All samples met MDH standards. <br /> • Fire hydrant preventative maintenance has been completed for 2015. The total amount of <br /> fire hydrants that were serviced amounts to an astonishing 485 hydrants; this figure <br /> includes 250 hydrants owned by the utility, 166 private hydrants, and another 85 hydrants <br /> that were serviced by the water operators and painted by the HOG Chapter. At this rate, <br /> all 1200+hydrants in Elk River will have preventative maintenance in four years; one <br /> year ahead of schedule. <br /> • Angela Hauge has started the long and tedious task of validating all of our GIS based <br /> water maps. This will help to ensure that all of our valves are located on the proper water <br /> mains and that there are no valves or hydrants missing from the map. <br /> • Dave Ninow has been working on locating and upgrading all of our tracing wire that was <br /> installed with most of the HDPE water main. In the process,he will install"Snakepit" <br /> locating boxes at as many locations as possible. <br /> • Mike Langer has a list of hydrant repairs that he is working on. These repairs were <br /> identified during the preventative maintenance that was completed this summer. <br /> • We cleaned out the Gary Street Water Tower and drained it in preparation of Slack <br /> Painting coming out to paint the belly of the tank, the dry tube, and the top of the <br /> condensate ceiling. <br /> POWERED B 1 <br /> Page 1 of 2 NATURE <br /> Mailable P O W E R E D To S E R V E <br /> Power Provider <br /> 102 <br />