Town Manager's Report
June 2005

Prepared by David Haller

Streets:

• 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:

• We did not have any raw sewerage spills this month
• Staff has been performing general/seasonal maintenance at the wastewater treatment plant.
• The "overland flow" treatment system is in use and working well and the irrigation system is running
• We received about 1.4 inches of precipitation this month
• 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:

• Trash pickup days will be Monday & Thursday for the month of June

Parks:

• Staff is performing standard spring maintenance - checking all playground equipment, ballfield prep and mowing and trimming
• Staff has been working on the swimming pool
• 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

List of prior months' Town Manager's reports