Town Manager's Report
October 2005

Prepared by David Haller 

Streets:

• Staff removed Fallen Firefighters signs and banners
• Staff repaired a number of street lights
• Staff cleaned East & West Main Street
• Staff has installed new stop signs on West Lincoln Avenue

Water:

• Staff has received final approval from MDE for Well #4 and has placed that well on line
• Staff has again flushed the raw water line from Rainbow Lake to the water treatment plant
• Staff found and repaired a large water leak in South Seton Avenue
• Staff applied Copper Sulfate to Rainbow Lake
• Water production and consumption.  We produced and purchased an average of 395,466 gpd.  We consumed an average of 367,685 gpd.
  • The difference is "Backwash Water" ...(7.0%).   We purchased 1,335,650 gals. of water from MSM this month.
  • 40.6% of this water came from wells 
  • 11.3% of this water came from Mt. St. Mary's
  • 48.1% of this water came from Rainbow Lake 

Wastewater:

• We had two raw sewerage spills in the Month of October, 10/7 & 8 and 10/25 & 26 (total spill 9,000 gals.)
• Staffhas completed aerator maintenance on all Lagoons
• The "overland flow" treatment system is in use and is working well
• We received about 8.1 inches of precipitation this month
• Wastewater Treatment:
  • We treat an average of 681,000 gpd (consumed 367,685 gpd) which means that 46% of the wastewater treated this month was "wild water"
  • We exceeded  the plant's design capacity on 6 days in the month of October
  • 10/07-2,291,000 gals., 10/8-2,078,000 gals., 10/9-862,000 gals
  • 10/24-990,000 gals., 10/25-2,014,000  gals., 10/26-965,000 gals.

Trash:

• Trash pickup days will remain Monday & Thursday for the month of November
• **Exception:  Thursday, Nov. 24th NO PICK-UP

Parks:

• Staff did perform standard mowing & trimming
• Staff power washed graffiti off of Memorial Park Restroom bldg.
• Staff winterized Memorial Park restrooms
• Staff removed grass & salted some ballfield in-fields

Meetings Attended:

• Governor's Housing Seminar
• With P&Z Dept. to review procedures
• With contractor of Emmitsburg Glass project to review and discuss water connection specifications
• Review Southgate development status with developer
• With MDE related to Consent Order
• Board of Education Workshop-Community leader input related to future school directives

List of prior months' Town Manager's reports