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4 <br /> Elk River . <br /> Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING <br /> TO: FROM: <br /> ERMU Commission Mark Fuchs—Electric Superintendent <br /> MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: <br /> July 11, 2017 6.1c <br /> SUBJECT: <br /> Staff Update <br /> ACTION REQUESTED: <br /> None <br /> DISCUSSION: <br /> • Had nine new house services. <br /> • Continue working on collecting data with the GPS for our ArcView maps as time <br /> permits. <br /> • Finished rebuilding 165th Ave; this is in Area 2 that we acquired from Connexus. <br /> • Continue construction on Waco 2 substation. We bored in the pipes for the feeders which <br /> included three to the south across the railroad tracks and three to the east across County <br /> Road 35. <br /> • Finished making up seventeen residential lots at Wildflower Villas in Otsego. <br /> • Continue working along Highway 10 from Gary Street to Xenia Avenue. We still need to <br /> move a switchgear cabinet and some poles and anchors. <br /> • Started installing a three phase underground service for the Elk River Senior Living <br /> building on 183rd Circle. <br /> • Last year Mi-Tech Pole Inspections Services tested some of our poles and found eight <br /> poles that needed to be replaced; each year we have a certain amount of poles tested. We <br /> just completed changing out the final pole that failed last year's inspection. <br /> • In the process of replacing an old underground primary tap on 221st Avenue. We are <br /> also replacing two shorter primary overhead taps with underground secondary; this will <br /> help out with some trees and clearance issues. <br /> • We were visually locating the underground feeders at the Field Services Building when a <br /> splice failed on the primary wire causing an outage. The failure occurred while <br /> excavating with the Vac-tron which uses high pressure water and vacuum to suck the <br /> mud out of the hole to aid in finding the wire. We figure when the contractor back-filled <br /> the splice pit years ago there may have been garbage with sharp objects in it which cut <br /> into the splice over time, and just happened to go bad while excavating. <br /> • Finished up the necessary repairs due to the June 11 storm. <br /> Page 1 of 1 <br /> 212 <br />