Town Manager's Report

                                                      November 2008

                                               Prepared by David Haller

Streets:

• Staff  cleaned East and West Main Street

• Staff has repaired a number of street lights

• Staff put snow flags on fire hydrants

• Staff installed swags around town

• Staff took up speed bumps on Chesapeake, Lincoln and North Avenues

Water:

• Rainbow Lake is now about 12" below the spillway  

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

• Staff has thoroughly cleaned the entire treatment plant

  Water production and consumption.  We produced and purchased an average of 317,179 gpd.  We consumed an average of 272,923 gpd 

  • The difference is "Backwash Water" ...(14.0%).   We purchased 296,300 gals. of water from MSM this month.

  • 47.2% of this water came from wells 

  •   3.1% of this water came from Mt. St. Mary's

  • 49.7%  of this water came from Rainbow Lake 

Wastewater:

• Staff is continuing to operate the overland flow treatment system

• Staff has thoroughly cleaned the entire control building

• We received about 2.9 inches of precipitation this month (the average is 3.6 inches)

  • We have a precipitation deficit of 0.3" over the last six months. The average precipitation for the period from June 1 thru Nov. 30 is 22.9" and we have received 22.6" for that period. 

• Wastewater Treatment:

  • We treated an average of 388,000 gpd (consumed 272,923 gpd) which means that 29.7% of the wastewater treated this month was "wild water".  

  • We experienced no spill of untreated sewerage during the month of October       

• We exceeded the plant's design capacity two days during the month of November

• 11/15  998,000 gal.             11/30   966,000 gal.

Trash: 

• Trash pickup will remain Monday and Thursday for the Month of December, 2008, with the exception of December 25th which will have no pick-up.

Parks:

• Staff made all standard checks and emptied trash cans

• Staff performed standard mowing and trimming

Meetings Attended:

• 11/04 Meeting with Mayor Hoover general operations

• 11/05 Frederick County Emergency Management Meeting

• 11/05 Frederick Co. Chapter of the MML - Related to County APFO

• 11/07 Frederick Co. meeting related to lease for Up County Building

• 11/12 Staff meeting related to Water Management Plan

• 11/15 Frederick County BOCC - Waste to Energy

• 11/15 Frederick County BOCC - County Water Management Plan

• 11/16 Mayor / Fox & Assoc. - Park Trails

• 11/20 Frederick Co. Soil Conservation Service / Scott Road Farm

• 11/20 Frederick Co. BOCC / Municipal meeting

• 11/21 Frederick Co. Planning Staff Emmitsburg Water Management Plan

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