Staff ReportsPUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
ACTIVITY REPORT
February 1996
-Attended Safety Class on chainsaws.
-Beginning preparation of FY 1997 Budget.
-On February 9th, for 12 hours, Meridian Road was closed due to flooding of Spring Creek.
-149 repair orders were completed during the month of February
-Police .............41 - Streets............. 54
-Fire .............. 10 - Garbage ............15
-Others ............ 29
` -Completed Windward Way Roadway design.
-Meridian Road design concept being reviewed by MDOT - reviewed with property owners.
-The Southwest Kalispell Solid Waste Petition was successful. 91 new accounts have
been established.
-Completed specifications for bid proposal for the installation of the Opticon System.
Advertisement for bids went out the week of February 26th.
-Preparing bid documents for 1996 overlay and chipseal projects.
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-Produced 57.6 M gallons of water. 10.2 M gallons in the upper zone and 47.4 M gallons in the lower
zone.
-Injected 91bs. of chlorine at Lawrence Park.
-Weekly general maintenance continues at fifteen lift stations.
-Video and jet cleaning operations continue.
-Rebuilt the #1 pump at lift station #8, Installed new impeller and wear plate.
-Built dike around lift #2 to keep storm water out of pumping station.
-Responded to 11 violations.
-Delivered 105 new containers.
-One 300-gallon container was burnt up at 1114-8th Avenue East.
CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTEN NCE
-Winter Operations continue.
-Tagged 60 delinquent accounts on the west side of city.
-Replaced 2 fire hydrants.
-Repaired 2 fire hydrants.
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-One of the Lamson blowers which controls the Plant phosphorus removal, has been repaired. The
plant's Consultant Engineer determined that a large portion of the controls had never been hooked up.
The Engineer and the Operators made the changes necessary on all three blowers and verified that the
controls are now working correctly.
-During the "warming trend" on February 8th and 9th, the Plant flows were in excess of 5 million
gallons per day, with Evergreen's flows at 605,000 and 738,000 gallons per day respectively.
-The Flathead Basin Commission has been given an EPA grant to coordinate a study to determine the
sources of nutrient pollution of Flathead Lake, and also to determine how to maintain or improve the
Lake's quality to be completed by December 31, 1996.
-The Gravity Thickener has been drained and is ready for F.D. Thomas to begin the repair work. The
Operators are now adding alum to keep the total phosphorus under 1 mg/l.