HomeMy Public PortalAboutW/S Quarterly 11.18.10 Water/Sewer Quarterly Report for July, August, September
11/8/2010
Water Wells are all running fine. Sewer Lift Stations are all running in good order, we had to replace a 50 hp. Flygt pump at Station # 6 which is on Jones and Hwy 80 pump was completely
wore out the cost was way over 50% of the cost of a new one. Our 20 hp. Flygt Pump has come in for Sewer Station # 8 should be installed this week. We had a sewer rat chewed through
the electrical cable of the level sensor at sta. # 6, so had to replace with new sensor because it cannot be spliced inside the wet well. We had to replace 2-6 inch Check Valves at Sewer
Sta. # 9 at $ 3,000.00 cost, which is part of normal preventive maintenance.
Water Pollution Control Plant is all back on line, we had # 2 Aerators gear box tear up due to a factory defect it has been replaced at their cost not ours. We had to take the new Grit
King off line, and clean a buildup of sand out of it due to operator error. It is back in service. We have a new 14 hp. Flygt pump for our Effluent, which are our main pumps of the plant.
It will be delivered in January so we can get the other two that we have rebuilt. We have to keep two pumps in service at all times.
The AMR system, We are still replacing water meters, FireFlys and putting in Solar Powered Enhanced Repeaters to upgrade the AMR System 3 people five days a week. Every Week
This does not fall under the last Quarter. The water main break that we had early Sunday morning was due to cold weather and a 6 inch ductile iron pipe that is 75 or more years old,
it had a 4 ½ foot split in the pipe, which was located right in the middle of both lanes in the curve. We replaced the split pipe and got the water back on 8 hours later. But the water
damage to the road caused a large cavity under the payment of the curve, so with talking to GDOT and our engineers we decided to reroute the water line and put it in the southbound parking
lane. We are going to go back to where the new 8” valve is and lay an 8” pipe around the curve in the parking lane and put a 8” valve and an 8” tee in and tie the 8” into the 6” line
that feeds done to Campbell Ave. under Hwy 80. If we leave it like it is we will be putting a bandage on a 75 year old line that will break again. The pavement cost is going to be costly.
We do not want to pay twice. If the Mayor or Council Members would like more information about the emergency project please contact me George Reese at 596-3654 Thank You.
Water/Sewer Manager
George Reese