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Town Manager's
Report
June 2005
Prepared by David
Haller Streets:
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Staff cleaned street
light globes on East
and West Main Streets
- Staff repaired a
number of street signs
- Staff closed
School Lane for repairs
- Staff has been
repainting a number of yellow curbs
Water:
- Staff has applied
copper sulfate to Rainbow Lake to help control the
algae
- Staff has flushed
the raw water line from Rainbow lake to the water
treatment plant
- The construction
work related to the connection of Well #4 is
coming along well and may be completed in the next
60 days
- The high particle
counts in the raw lake water caused by the high
algae counts are becoming a problem again at the
water treatment plant. We are making some plant
operational modifications to try to offset some of
these difficulties
- Water production and consumption. We
produced and purchased an average of 406,372 gpd.
We consumed an average of 373,260 gpd.
- The difference is "Backwash Water"
...(8.1%). We purchased 489,210 gals. of water from MSM this month.
- 63.9% of this water came from wells
(up from 60.0%)
- 04.3% of this water came from Mt. St. Mary's
- 31.8% of this water came from Rainbow Lake
(down from 35.7%)
Wastewater:
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We did not have any
raw sewerage spills this month
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Staff has been
performing general/seasonal maintenance at the
wastewater treatment plant.
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The "overland
flow" treatment system is in use and working
well and the irrigation system is running
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We received about
1.4 inches of precipitation this
month
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Wastewater Treatment:
- We treat an average of
341,000 gpd (consumed 337,260 gpd) which means that
none of the
wastewater treated this month was "Wild
Water"
- We did not exceed the plants design capacity on
any days in the month of June;
Trash:
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Trash
pickup days will be Monday & Thursday for the
month of June
Parks:
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Staff is performing
standard spring maintenance - checking all
playground equipment, ballfield prep and mowing
and trimming
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Staff has been
working on the swimming pool
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Staff has repaired a
water leak near the concession stand in Memorial
Park
Meetings Attended:
- To discuss and
review the rehab of St. Joseph's Church
- The reconstruction
of Frailey Rd. - From Main St. to intersection of
Mt. View Rd.
- MDE related to the
civil design for the reconstruction of the Town's
sanitary sewer main east of Rte. 15
- To review and
discuss the installation of the water pressure
control valve vault to be located in the
Brookfield Development
- Progress meetings
related to the Mt. View Rd. waterline rehab and
the sanitary sewer rehab projects
- To review the
future paving of DePaul St. from Federal Ave. to
N. Seton Ave.
- The State of
Maryland to investigate existing grant and loan
programs the Town may want to participate in or
utilize
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