December Managers Reprot

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Town Manager’s ReportDecember  2007

Prepared by David Haller

Streets:

• Staff  plowed snow and treated streets

• Staff has repaired a number of street lights

• Staff inspected all street lights on Ramblewood Drive

Water:

• Rainbow Lake is now 2.0 feet below the spillway and our five wells appear to be recovering

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

• The existing water use restrictions which prohibit all outdoor water use are showing showing some results, daily consumption has dropped over the last two months

• Water production and consumption.  We produced and purchased an average of 342,790 gpd.  We consumed an average of 295,877 gpd (up 21,809 gpd or 87 taps over November 2007)  

  • The difference is “Backwash Water” …(13.7%).   We purchased 515,800 gals. of water from MSM this month.

  • 52.7%      of this water came from wells 

  •  4.8%      of this water came from Mt. St. Mary’s

  • 42.5%      of this water came from Rainbow Lake 

Wastewater:

• Staff shut-down the overland treatment system in mid December for the season

• We received about 5.1 inches of precipitation this month (the average is 3.3 inches)

  • We have a deficit of 2.3″ of  precipitation over the last six months.  The average precipitation for the period from July 1 thru  December 31 is 22.1″ and we have received 19.8″ for that period. 

• Wastewater Treatment:

  • We treated an average of 682,000 gpd (consumed 295,877 gpd) which means that 43.4% of the wastewater treated this month was “wild water”.   

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

  • We exceeded the plant’s design capacity seven days during the month of December

  12/2        935,000 gpd    12/9  892,000 gpd    12/15  1,285.000 gpd             

  12/16   2,169,000 gpd    12/17 860,000 gpd   12/30   1,183,000 gpd

  12/31   1,062,000 gpd      

Trash: 

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

Parks:

• Staff made all standard checks and emptied trash cans

• Staff supervised the installation of the concrete slab for the new pavilion at the swimming pool

Meetings Attended:

• 12/04 meeting with the Town’s After School Program staff to review and discuss program operations

• 12/05 meeting with Mayor Hoover, Commissioner Blanchard and Chris Jakubiak to review and discuss the Planning Commission’s Comp Plan update efforts and needs

• 12/14 meeting Frederick County Planning Staff to review new water allocation plan requirements

• 12/19 meeting with land owner to discuss his commercial subdivision and related issues

• 12/20 met with staff and design engineers to review East Lincoln Ave. water and sanitary sewer rehab project