{"id":253,"date":"2015-08-18T01:02:44","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T01:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/?p=253"},"modified":"2015-08-18T01:02:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T01:02:44","slug":"monthly-report-public-works-department-july-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/2015\/08\/18\/monthly-report-public-works-department-july-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Monthly Report Public Works Department – July, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

WATER<\/strong>\u00a0– A total of 58,678,100 gallons of water were delivered, 37,767,000 gallons from\u00a0Alder Creek treatment plant, 5,270,400\u00a0gallons from\u00a0Brownell Springs and 15,640,700 gallons purchased from City of Portland. This is a new monthly record for water production. On July 6th, \u00a0the Oregon Water Resources Department required us to reduce the amount of water we take\u00a0from Brownell Springs to about 90 gallons per minute due to low flow in Cedar Creek. Cedar Creek also supplies the Sandy Fish Hatchery. This has happened in the past, typically in September or October. However this is the earliest we have ever had to reduce withdrawal from the Springs. On the 30th treatment plant\u00a0staff placed plastic sheeting on the upstream face of the wing\u00a0dam\u00a0to provide more water to\u00a0the Alder Creek intake. 0.41 inches of rainfall were recorded at the treatment plant site during July.<\/p>\n

WASTEWATER –\u00a0<\/strong>A total of 33,<\/em>100,000 gallons of sewage were treated and used for irrigation. Minimum flow was 0.95 MGD on the 2nd. Maximum flow was 1.24 MGD on the 26th. \u00a0A total of 0.42\u00a0inches\u00a0of rainfall was recorded during July.\u00a0\u00a0BOD concentration was 6.9\u00a0mg\/l; BOD loading was 63\u00a0lbs; permit allows 10\u00a0mg\/l and 125\u00a0lbs.; SS concentration was 10.5\u00a0mg\/l; SS loading was 96\u00a0lbs.; permit allows 10 mg\/l and 125 lbs. \u00a0Effluent permit loading and limits do not apply when treated wastewater is used for irrigation. These figures are shown to demonstrate treatment efficiency.\u00a0Sludge processing\u00a0began in June and sludge hauling started on July 7th. Twenty-one dry tons of sludge were processed in July and 41 dry tons were hauled and spread on local pasture land.\u00a0\u00a0Clarifier No. 2\u00a0was drained for inspection and cleaning. The pumps at Marcy St.; Northside, Southside, Southeast, Southwest and Meinig Ave. lift stations ran a total of 203 hours with no significant problems. City crews doing routine sewer line cleaning discovered a FTTH conduit bored directly through an 8″ sewer main on Loundree Drive. \u00a0Fortunately, we discovered it before it could\u00a0cause a backup and it was\u00a0repaired on the 22nd.<\/span><\/p>\n

STREETS<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>–\u00a0The street sweeping contractor spent 61\u00a0hours sweeping streets and collected more than 16\u00a0tons (22 cu. yds.) of debris, covering 212\u00a0lane miles. These totals include sweeping after the Mountain Festival parade. \u00a0A total of 9\u00a0tons of asphalt were used patching potholes and making street repairs in July. Considerable time was spent mowing weeds in City right-of-ways.<\/p>\n

PARKS \/ OTHER –\u00a0<\/strong>Irrigation demand\u00a0stayed high\u00a0with the continued\u00a0dry and hot weather.\u00a0<\/strong>After trying several alternatives we finally determined the\u00a0irrigation pump for Sandy Bluff Park needed to be replaced. A new pump was ordered and will be installed in August.\u00a0The new Parks Seasonal Worker position was filled and\u00a0started\u00a0work\u00a0on July 1. The focus for this position has been to catch up on a backlog of work at all parks and and help prep and clean up Meinig Park before and after the Mountain Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WATER\u00a0– A total of 58,678,100 gallons of water were delivered, 37,767,000 gallons from\u00a0Alder Creek treatment plant, 5,270,400\u00a0gallons from\u00a0Brownell Springs and 15,640,700 gallons purchased from City of Portland. This is a new monthly record for water production. On July 6th, \u00a0the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}