PUBLIC WORKS – Monthly Report – September 2022

WATER:

  • Alder Creek had a Peak Day production of 1.664 MG on September 12th.
  • Alder Creek water plant production net of backwash water used was 25.2318 MG
  • Brownell Springs production was a total of 4.47 MG and Peak Day production was on September 9th with a total of 400,170 gallons
  • Portland Water Bureau source production was a total of 13,071,512 gallons with a Peak Day production of 519,059 gallons on September 20th.
  • We recorded a total of 1.06 inches of rainfall at the water plant with peak rainfall on September 28th with a total of 0.49inches.

    EQUIPMENT ISSUES:
    Power Outage from September 9th – 11th creating the generator to overheat at Terra Fern.

WASTEWATER

  • A total of 20.98 MG of sewage was treated in the month of September
  • On September 5th the Peak day flow was 1.07 MG. No rainfall was recorded that day or the day before. 
  • Monthly rainfall recorded at the plant was 0.59 inches with a peak of 0.20 inches on the 29th of September
  • 667,200 gallons of sludge were dewatered, processed and landfilled during September
  • Monthly Average Effluent BOD & TSS – N/A (Recycled)

EQUIPMENT ISSUES:

  • Caustic Pump Replaced (9/2)
  • Pumps out for Cell 2 & 3, temporarily using Slaydens portable pumps (9/17)
  • Pond scraped to remove solids (9/20)
  • AB2 switch over (9/22)
  • DEQ onsite (9/27)
  • Rivercity onsite to clean out AB2 (9/27)
  • IMLR 1 pulled & sent to triangle for repair – Not functioning (9/29) (Breaker change out.  Flowmeter on EFF tripping causing pumps to Iseli’s nursery to not function. EFF levels high)
  • NPDES Permit Exceedances or Excursions: Coliform at 27.20 (9/8)

STREETS:

Here is a picture of all the street lights in our Ubivu street lighting program that are all LED.  About 1,100 street lights switched to LED and controlled by the Ubicquia control nodes.