Town Manager's Report
March 2008

Prepared by David Haller

Streets:

• Staff  installed no parking signs on Cedar Avenue

• Staff has repaired a number of street lights

• Staff made some cold patch street repairs

• Staff cleaned storm drains on Irishtown Road

• Staff repainted parking spaces on Silo Hill Parkway

Water:

• Rainbow Lake is now flowing over the spillway and our five wells appear to be recovering well

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

• Staff is preparing to rebuild (re-sock) another of the DE filters

  Water production and consumption.  We produced and purchased an average of 360,170 gpd.  We consumed an average of 312,974 gpd   

  • The difference is "Backwash Water" ...(13.1%).   We purchased 302,412 gals. of water from MSM this month.

  • 48.7%      of this water came from wells 

  •  2.9%      of this water came from Mt. St. Mary's

  • 48.4%      of this water came from Rainbow Lake 

Wastewater:

• Staff is continuing to operate the overland flow treatment system

• We received about 4.4 inches of precipitation this month (the average is 3.95 inches)

  • We have a surplus of 1.7" of  precipitation over the last six months.  The average precipitation for the period from Oct 1 thru March 31 is 21.0" and we have received 22.7" for that period. 

• Wastewater Treatment:

  • We treated an average of 698,000 gpd (consumed 312,974 gpd) which means that 55.2% of the wastewater treated this month was "wild water".   

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

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

  • 03-04  1,845,000 gpd   03-05   2,143,000 gpd,   03-06 940,000gpd  

  • 03-07   1,194,000 gpd,    03-08   1,384,000 gpd      03-08  890,000 gpd

  • 03-19  1,285,000 gpd    03-20  1,041,000 gpd   

Trash: 

• Trash pickup will remain Monday and Thursday for the Month of April, 2008

Parks:

• Staff made all standard checks and emptied trash cans

• Staff repaired the girls dougout roof in Memorial Park

• Staff painted all pavilion picnic tables

Meetings Attended:

• 03/03 Frederick County Building Managers meeting

• 03/05 Met with property owner related to proposed development on South Seton Ave.

• 03/07 Met with Frederick County staff related to Community Center Building Maintenance

• 03/12 Met with MES staff related to on going sanitary sewer metering project

• 03/17 Meet with Mt. St. Mary's staff related to problem rental houses

• 03/19 Met with staff related to Frederick County's "Lock Down and Shelter In Place" Policy

• 03/20 BOCC and Municipalities meeting

• 03/24 Meeting to review possible new sewer plant treatment systems

• 03/26 Project kick-off meeting related to proposed new water treatment plant

• 03/31 Met with Fox & Associates related to proposed water sewer classification change

list of prior months' Town Manager's reports