Town Manager's Report
June 2007

Prepared by David Haller

Streets:

• Staff  Cleaned East and West Main Street

• Staff has repaired a number of street lights in Brookfield

• Staff installed Farmer's Market Banners and U.S. Flags on Main Street

• Staff coordinated the striping of several streets

• Staff installed "No Dumping" signs at the end of Welty Avenue

Water:

• Rainbow Lake is now 4" below the spillway, but all wells are holding up well 

• The roughing filters are now being backwashed three times per day and the DE filters are being done once per week

• Staff has recently re-worked the catwalk at the Rainbow Lake valve house

• Water production and consumption.  We produced and purchased an average of 367,590 gpd.  We consumed an average of 310,515 gpd  (up 12% from April)

  • The difference is "Backwash Water" ...(15.5%).   We purchased 381,100 gals. of water from MSM this month.

  • 49.0%      of this water came from wells 

  •   3.4%      of this water came from Mt. St. Mary's

  • 47.6%      of this water came from Rainbow Lake 

Wastewater:

• Staff has recently rebuilt the meter at the irrigation reservoir and Wayne Sharrer has reported to work.  He is our new W&S Dept. Employee

• We received about 2.2 inches of precipitation this month (the average is 4.3 inches)

  • We have a deficit of 6.7" of  precipitation over the last six months.  The average precipitation for the period from January 1 thru  June 30 is 23.2" and we have received 16.5" for that period. 

• Wastewater Treatment:

  • We treated an average of 273,000 gpd (consumed 310,515 gpd) which means that 0.0% of the wastewater treated this month was "wild water".  This also indicates that approximately 12% of all consumption is going to outdoor use  (See #4 under water)

  • Water consumption is up approximately 12% from April and the majority of the increased consumption appears to be for outdoor uses.  We are also at a 6.7" precipitation deficit over the last six month period and Rainbow Lake is 4" below the spillway.  Therefore, the Mayor & Council may want to consider a restriction on outdoor water uses.

  • We experienced one small spill of untreated sewerage during the month of June.  It took place at MH 120 and appears to be the result of a grease buildup in the main, not a high flow.

  • We did not exceed the plant's design capacity during the month of June

Trash: 

• Trash pickup will remain Monday and Thursday for the Month of July, 2007

Parks:

• Staff cleaned-up the parking lot at the men's softball field in Community Park

• Staff graded, seeded and munched the area around the foundation/conc. base of the new bandstand in Community Park

• Staff removed the broken basketball backboard in Community Parl

• Staff performed standard mowing and trimming in all parks

Meetings Attended:

• 06/01 with the engineers for the Industrial Park East, II site plan over sanitary sewer design issues

• 06/04 with an adjoining property owner to discuss access issues related to his mountain land

• 06/06 with our auditors to discuss and plan our upcoming audit and information we will need to supply

• 06/12 with he developers of Brookfield to review and discuss future sections of that project to be developed, as well as some street light problems

• 06/13 with George Newman to discuss some environmental management tools and/or projects

• 06/13 with the Mountain Trails Task Force

• 06/27 Frederick County Board of Commissioners training session on the new ethics and lobbying ordinance

• 06/29 with the engineers preparing the feasibility study related to the possible upgrade of our sewer plant

List of prior months' Town Manager's reports