Town Manager's Report
May 2008

Prepared by David Haller

Streets:

• Staff  installed two additional Welcome To Emmitsburg signs on Seton Avenue

• Staff has repaired a number of street lights

• Staff installed a speed-bump on West North Avenue

• Staff cleaned debris from the bed of Willow Rill at the Creamery Road culvert

Water:

• Rainbow Lake is now flowing over the spillway and our five wells appear to have recovered

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

• Staff has applied copper sulfate to Rainbow Lake

  Water production and consumption.  We produced and purchased an average of 340,628 gpd.  We consumed an average of 293,291 gpd   

  • The difference is "Backwash Water" ...(13.%).   We purchased 320,180 gals. of water from MSM this month.

  • 45.0% of this water came from wells 

  •   3.0% of this water came from Mt. St. Mary's

  • 52.0%  of this water came from Rainbow Lake 

Wastewater:

• Staff is continuing to operate the overland flow treatment system

• We received about 6.4 inches of precipitation this month (the average is 4.5. inches)

  • We have a surplus of 7.5" of  precipitation over the last six months.  The average precipitation for the period from Dec 1 thru May 31 is 22.2" and we have received 29.7" for that period. 

• Wastewater Treatment:

  • We treated an average of 672,000 gpd (consumed 293,291 gpd) which means that 56.4% of the wastewater treated this month was "wild water".   

  • We experienced one spill of untreated sewerage during the month of May        (5-11-08     MH-98     12,600 gals)

• We exceed the plant's design capacity on 5 days during the month of May    05-11  2,348,000 gpd      05-12   2,934,000 gpd,   05-13  1,142,000 gpd  

• 05-16  936,000 gpd,        05-20   830,000 gpd    

Trash: 

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

Parks:

• Staff made all standard checks and emptied trash cans

• Staff conditioned the volleyball court and Babe Ruth ballfield in Community Park

• Staff placed additional picnic tables in the pavilion at the swimming pool

• Staff performed standard mowing and trimming

Meetings Attended:

• 05/15 meeting with Fox & Assoc and Dan Reaver to discuss Sanitary Sewer R/W

• 05/15 BOCC & Municipalities meeting

• 05/19 meeting with Ms. Briggs to discuss rental of 140 S. Seton Avenue

• 05/20 EBPA monthly meeting

• 05/21 meeting with Town attorney to discuss an annexation of a small piece of l        and along Irishtown Road

• 05/21 Frederick Co. Planning Commission meeting related to water & sewer   classification change for Reaver property east of Rt. 15

• 05/22 Frederick Co./ MML POS funding meeting

• 05/23 meeting with Fox & Assoc related to Irishtown Rd. annexation

• 05/30 Meeting with HR consultant and staff

list of prior months' Town Manager's reports