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 30^th 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 26^th (Memorial Day) which will be picked up on Tuesday, May 27^th.

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