Town Manager's Report
April 2014
Prepared by David Haller
StStreets:
·
Staff repaired
some street signs around town.
·
Staff
patched some pot holes around town.
·
Staff
removed some of the snow flags from the hydrants
·
Staff
installed rear address numbers at 22 E. Lincoln Ave. and
140 S. Seton Ave.
WWater:
·
Rainbow
Lake is at the spillway level.
·
The
roughing filters are being backwashed once a day and the
DE filters are being done once a week.
·
Our
wells are down an average of 4.0 feet from May 2011
levels.
·
Water
production and consumption. We produced and
purchased an average of 296,726 GPD. We consumed an
average of 277,741 GPD.
The
difference is "Backwash Water" ... (6.4%). We
purchased 457,950 gallons of water from MSM this month.
o
37.6%
of this water came from wells.
o
4.1% of this water came from Mt. St. Mary's.
o
58.3% of
this water came from Rainbow Lake.
WWastewater:
·
The
overland flow treatment system is shut-down for the
season.
·
We
received about 6.2 inches of precipitation this month (the
average is 3.8 inches).
o
We
have a precipitation surplus
of 9.6" over the last six months.
The average precipitation for the period from
November 1 thru April 30 is 21.5". We have
received 31.1" for that period.
·
Wastewater
Treatment:
o
We
treated an average of 660,000 GPD (consumed 277,741 GPD)
which means that 57.9% of the wastewater treated this
month was "wild water".
o
We
had two spills of untreated sewerage on April 30th
at MH 98 and MH 35 totalling 23,400 GALS.
o
We
exceeded the plant’s design capacity on four days in the
month of April.
04/15
1,340,000 GPD
04/16 763,000
GPD 04/29
1,820,000 GPD
04/30
3,918,000 GPD
TrTrash:
Trash pickup will remain Mondays for the remainder of the
month of May with the exception of Monday, May 26th
(Memorial Day) which will be picked up on Tuesday, May 27th.
PaParks:
·
Staff
performed repairs in the restrooms in both Memorial and
Community Parks.
·
Staff
has prepared the garden plots for the season.
·
Staff
has placed the rain barrels in community park.
·
Staff
has performed all standard checks in the parks.
I
Recently Attended the Following Meetings:
·
04/03
Met with SHA related to town square project
·
04/07
Pre-meeting agenda review meeting
·
04/15
Audit review meeting
·
04/21
Met with the Mayor to review agenda items
·
04/21
Met with Standard Solar Inc. related to Phase II solar
project
·
04/23
Met with Standard Solar Inc. – solar project
·
04/24
Attended Frederick County MML Meeting
·
04/28
Met with staff related to FY-2015 budget