Weekly post by Operator/Manager
Sandy Shores well. The long awaited Sandy shores well Filtration project is finally getting under way, the contracts are signed we had our preconstruction meeting this morning with the engineer that designed and is IN charge of the project (Gray&Osborne) the contractor (Pacific Crest Construction) four board members Darton Riley …
New pump at the springs. There are two pumps down at Dockton Springs our primary water source that alternate between each other 24/7 365 these pumps when new produce 118 G.P.M (gallons per minute)are now 14 year’s old and rapidly loosing G.P.M. We have a new back up pump in …
Water leaks. Saturday morning I received a phone call from Frank Zellerhoff informing me that while on a walk at the corner of 268th and 99th AVE he hared water gushing inside the pressure reducing vault (P.R.V) that sits on this corner, this P.R.V reduces the water pressure down for …
Water quality testing. Department of health (D.O.H) put’s out a Water Quality monitoring Schedule (W.Q.M.S) every year that tells me what water sample’s I have to collect throughout the year. there is between two and three out in distribution four or five at source broken up between the springs and …
Sandy Shores filtration project. Last night in a special board meeting the board meet via zoom and officially hired Pacific Crest Construction to build our new filtration plant for the Sandy Shores well. I have notified Warren Perkins at Gray & Osborne the engineer in charge of the project that …
Sandy Shores filtration project. Monday morning bright and early 7:00 am, I showed up and the truck with the filter assemblies’ was sitting in the drive way Frank Zellerhoff soon after that. Frank had dropped of hi big excavator on Friday afternoon so it was ready to go on Monday …
Sandy Shores filtration project. Monday morning the filter assemblies will be here for the Sandy Shores filtration Project and Frank Zellerhoff (Zellerhoff construction) will unload. The filter assemblies weigh 3400 L.B.S and the 2 associated Palates weigh 3000 L.B.S each. New Engineer. Avoid consumption of alcohol, cigarette smoking and heavy …
SPRINGS. I have spent some time down at the springs this week cleaning well points, number’s 8,9,10, and 11all have been cleaned and back on line number 6 that was down has been cleaned and put back online. There is three more well points that need cleaning, water production is …
IT’S HOT OUT. Last month we pumped into distribution just a little over three million gallons of water witch burned up a lot of chlorine. Wednesday i had to make an emergency run into town and buy more chlorine usually i can wait to buy chlorine until i do water …
Springs. I have been down at the springs this week working on well point maintenance, Upon inspection three well points had quite one not unusual but the other two not so. When a well point quits it is usually because it’s plunged with sand and that requires taking the well …