Town Manager's Report

                                                     October 2009

                                               Prepared by David Haller

Streets:

• Staff repaired several street lights 

• Staff has installed "no loitering" signs at the Community Center

• Staff has flushed several fire hydrants

• Staff has made some "cold patch" repairs to Creamery Road

Water:

• Rainbow Lake is mow 5" below the spillway level (up 10" from last month)

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

• Staff has completed the e-coli testing of the lake water and the results are very good ...only 1/3 of the allowable level

• Water production and consumption.  We produced and purchased an average of 345,308 gpd.  We consumed an average of 300,873 gpd 

  • The difference is "Backwash Water" ...(12.9%). We purchased 373,700 gals. of water from MSM this month.

  • 47.6 of this water came from wells 

  •   3.5% of this water came from Mt. St. Mary's

  • 48.9%  of this water came from Rainbow Lake 

Wastewater:

• The overland and flow treatment system has been shut down for the season

• Staff has been trimming and cutting trees and brush out of the perimeter fence at the wastewater treatment plant

• We received about 6.7 inches of precipitation this month (the average is 3.5 inches)

  • We have a precipitation surplus of 6.4" over the last six months, the average precipitation for the period from May.1 thru October.31 is 23.9" and we received 30.3" for that period

• Wastewater Treatment:

  • We treated an average of 630,000 gpd (consumed 300,873 gpd) which means that 52.2% of the wastewater treated this month was "wild water". (up from 7.9% last month) 

  • We experienced no spills of untreated sewerage during the month of August

• We exceed the plant's design capacity on 8 days during the month of October

     10/15     834,000 gpd     10/16    864,000 gpd     10/17 2,226,000 gpd  

      10/18  1,314,000 gpd    10/23  1,066,000 gpd     10/24  1,078,000 gpd

      10/27  1,401,000 gpd     10/28  1,527,000 gpd                

  Trash: 

• Trash pickup will remain Mondays for the remainder of Month of November

Parks:

• Staff and the contractor recently completed the installation of the new replacement play ground equipment in Community Park

• Staff performed the monthly maintenance inspection, mowing and trimming

Meetings Attended:

• 10/02 I attended a meeting of the Fire museum Board of Directors

• 10/06 I attended the Frederick County Commissioners meeting at which they reviewed the Thurmont Region Comp Plan

• 10/13 I met with a local surveyor to discuss the comp plan update

• 10/15 I attended a budget meeting with staff and the auditors

• 10/15 I attended the pre-construction meeting for the Lincoln Ave. W&S rehab project

• 10/15 I attended the BOCC/Municipal meeting

• 10/15 I attended the Frederick County Chapter f the MML meeting to discuss action of the BOCC

• 10/21 I attended the mayor's staff meeting

• 10/30 I met with local realtor to discuss the Comp plan update

list of prior months' Town Manager's reports