Town Manager's Report
August 2006

Prepared by David Haller

Streets:

• Staff painted the center line in Silo Hill Parkway
• Staff has repaired a number of street lights
• Staff repaired the speed bumps on West North Avenue and Chesapeake Avenue
• Staff installed street address signs at the pumping station and the wastewater treatment plant

Water:

• Staff is continuing to inject coagulant treatment into the raw water line from Rainbow Lake at Well #3 in an effort to improve the performance of the roughing filters.
• The roughing filters are being backwashed twice everyday and the DE filters are also being done two or three times everyday
• Water production and consumption.  We produced and purchased an average of 383,686 gpd.  We consumed an average of 349,303 gpd.
  • The difference is "Backwash Water" ...(9.0%).   We purchased 388,900 gals. of water from MSM this month.
  • 60.8% of this water came from wells 
  •  3.3% of this water came from Mt. St. Mary's
  • 35.9% of this water came from Rainbow Lake 

Wastewater:

• Staff replaced the solenoid and batteries in the sludge truck.  They also dewatered Lagoon No. 2 in preparation for de-sludging
• We received about 1.7 inches of precipitation this month (the average is 3.60 inches)
  • We are 5.6" short on precipitation over the last six months.  The average precipitation for the period from March 1 thru August 31 is 23.80" and we have received 18.2"
• Wastewater Treatment:
  • We treated an average of 290,000 gpd (consumed 349,303 gpd) which means that 0.0% of the wastewater treated this month was "wild water"
  • We did not exceeded the plant's design capacity on any days in the Month of July

Trash:

• Trash pickup days will remain Monday & Thursday for the month of August

Parks:

• Staff has been performing standard mowing & trimming
• Staff re-mulched the playground equipment in Memorial and Community Parks
• Staff performed weed killing at ballfields
• Staff installed a new water line in Community Park to serve the new (under construction) bathrooms

Meetings Attended:

• 08/15 South Seton Ave - water & sewer rehab project
• 08/28 South Seton Ave - water & sewer rehab project
• 08/28 Chris Jakubiak & Mt. St. Mary's to discuss comp plan
• 08/30 Mayor Hoover & Don Briggs to discuss site parking
• 08/30 Mayor Hoover & Seton Center to discuss water service
• 08/31  Frederick County P&Z to discuss dog problem in Pembrook
• 08/31 With engineers for new ambulance company bldg. to discuss water & sewer connection design problem      
• 09/05 BOCC related to review fees and county transportation plan

List of prior months' Town Manager's reports