The Mason-Dixon Line

Town Manager’s ReportNovember  2007

Prepared by David Haller

Streets:

• Staff  installed swags on Main St. and decorated the town square for Christmas

• Staff has repaired a number of street lights

• Staff painted yellow curbs & striped a number of streets

• Staff installed crusher run along the edges of Bunker Hill Drive’s new paving

• Staff installed and decorated the Town Christmas tree

Water:

• Rainbow Lake is now 3.1 feet below the spillway (down 0.4 feet from last month)  and our five wells have dropped a total of thirty-nine (39) feet – an average of 7.8 feet each (which is up 4.4 feet from last month) from July 23, 2007 until December 10, 2007

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

• The recently instituted water use restrictions which prohibit all outdoor water use are starting to show some results, daily consumption has dropped by 44,372 gpd over the last two months

• Water production and consumption.  We produced and purchased an average of 3346,068.  We consumed an average of 274,068 gpd (down 2,049 gpd)  

  • The difference is “Backwash Water” …(20.8%).   We purchased 736,400 gals. of water from MSM this month.

  • 49.9%      of this water came from wells 

  •   7.1%      of this water came from Mt. St. Mary’s

  • 43.0%      of this water came from Rainbow Lake 

Wastewater:

• We have experienced another sewer back-up at MH-94 in Emmit Gardens, this back-up was again due to a grease buildup in that sewer main.  Staff hopes to bring you a draft ordinance which will address our grease trap problem within the next three months

• We received about 2.6 inches of precipitation this month (the average is 3.8 inches)

  • We have a deficit of 6.2″ of  precipitation over the last six months.  The average precipitation for the period from June 1 thru  November 30 is 23.1″ and we have received 16.9″ for that period. 

• Wastewater Treatment:

  • We treated an average of 352,000 gpd (consumed 278,068 gpd) which means that 0.0% of the wastewater treated this month was “wild water”.   

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

  • We exceeded the plant’s design capacity one day during the month of November

Trash: 

• Trash pickup will remain Monday and Thursday for the Month of December, 2007

Parks:

• Staff installed a new picnic table and grill in Community Park

• Staff supervised the installation of additional new fencing at the Little League field in Memorial Park

• Staff performed some additional repairs at the swimming pool

• Staff removed a picnic table from the swimming pool which was thrown into the pool by vandals

Meetings Attended:

• 11/05 with a citizen related to meetings with developers and park benches

• 11/05 with CASS to discuss transportation needs in our community

• 11/06 meeting with MSM to discuss our water contract

• 11/07 Emergency Management task force meeting

• 11/08 meeting with MSM and PNC Bank to discuss and review possible bonding issue

• 11/09 MDE water & sewer rate setting seminar

• 11/13 meeting with property owner to discuss possible land uses and regulations

• 11/14 meeting with DNR to discuss and review reforestation requirements related projects

• 11/20 budget and audit review meeting

• 11/29 meeting with After-School Program staff to review program needs and operation

• 11/29 MML legislative update and dinner meeting

List of prior months’ Town Manager’s reports