Town of Emmitsburg
300A S. Seton Ave Emmitsburg, Maryland
21727
240-629-6300

Town Manager's Report
February 2014

Prepared by David Haller

 

 

Streets:

·         Staff repaired a number of street lights.

·         Staff plowed and salted a number of streets.

·         Staff replaced some parking stops around the square.

Water:

·         Rainbow Lake is at the spillway level. 

·         The roughing filters are being backwashed three times a day and the DE filters are being done twice per week.

·         Our wells are down an average of 9.0 feet from May 2011 levels. 

·         Water production and consumption.  We produced and purchased an average of 352,399 GPD.  We consumed an average of 319,083 GPD.

 

 The difference is "Backwash Water" ... (9.5%). We purchased 618,530 gallons of water from MSM this month.

o    45.1% of this water came from wells. 

o      4.6% of this water came from Mt. St. Mary's.

o    50.3% of this water came from Rainbow Lake. 

Wastewater:

·         The overland flow treatment system is shut-down for the season.

·         We received about 5.4 inches of precipitation this month (the average is 3.0 inches).  

o    We have a precipitation SURPLUS of 8.4" over the last six months.  The average precipitation for the period from September 1 thru February 28 is 21.5".  We have received 29.9" for that period.

·         Wastewater Treatment:

 

o   We treated an average of 819,000 GPD (consumed 319,083 GPD) which means that 61.0% of the wastewater treated this month was "wild water". 

o   We had no spills of untreated sewerage in the month of February.

o   We exceeded the plant’s design capacity on ten days in the month of February.
 

02/03    949,000 GPD          02/04     916,000 GPD    02/05 1,830,000 GPD

02/06 1,037,000 GPD          02/19  1,011,000 GPD    02/20 1,122,000 GPD

02/21 2,356,000 GPD          02/22  1,651,000 GPD    03/23 1,363,000 GPD     

02/24    989,000 GPD

 

Trash:  Trash pickup will remain Mondays for the remainder of the month of March.

Parks:

·         Staff has performed standard mowing and trimming in all parks.

I Recently Attended the Following Meetings: 

·         02/03  Met with the Mayor to review agenda items

·         02/03  Met with SHA related to MD RTE 140

·         02/27  Attended MML Meeting

List of prior months' Town Manager's reports