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4/28/2011
The Wastewater Treatment Plant is finally back, in good working order. The sludge press has been repaired cleaned and grease, and is working fine at this time. We took Clarifier # 2
Drained it cleaned and inspected the Mechanical Parts inside of it, made sure everything was in good working order. It took about 5 days total to do it all, and then we filled it back
up. Aerators are all in the Basin and working, grit king is working fine, UV has been repaired and at this time is working, but the Monitoring Screen does not work. The Monitoring Screen
gives a complete view of the whole UV System it gives us alarms for what is on or not on, such as the bulbs, ballast, and the UV Banks. The Manufacture Trojan said they could not repair
the Monitoring Screens that I have or give me a new one. We would have to update our system, with which will cost in the range of $ 50,000.00. So we will have to add more money to the
line Item for the VU.
We are in the process of renewing our NPDES permit which stands for (National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System) Permit, ours had expired on December 31 2010, and we should have
our new permit from the EPD by the first of June.
The Sewer Lift Stations are all working fine, no serious problems. We took our JET-VAC and vacuumed out all the wet wells to remove grease and debris to get them ready for the season’s
flows.
We have been training water and sewer and public works people on the operations of our New Jet-Vac Truck.
The Drinking Water Wells are all in good working order, we should be getting our Salt Water Intrusion Monitoring System put in some time in May. The USGS will install it on the 4 wells
that are located at the Wastewater Treatment Plant; the wells are drilled to different levels of the Aquifer. The system will give us a continuous reading of Salt levels in all 4 wells.
We will have a threshold limit setting on salt level so when the salt level rises above the limits it will send an alarm to our computers, the USGS has been monitoring for salt levels
once a year. The New Monitoring System will be a much needed early warning system to protect the city’s drinking water and to keep it safe for all.
Sincerely George Reese
Water/Sewer Manager