{"id":280,"date":"2016-01-13T22:03:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T22:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/?p=280"},"modified":"2016-01-13T22:03:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T22:03:56","slug":"monthly-report-december-2015-public-works-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/2016\/01\/13\/monthly-report-december-2015-public-works-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Monthly Report: December 2015 &#8211; Public Works Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WATER<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A total of 30,279,000\u00a0gallons of water were treated and delivered, 8,577,000 gallons from\u00a0Alder Creek treatment plant, 10,940,000\u00a0gallons from\u00a0Brownell Springs and 10,762,000\u00a0gallons purchased from City of Portland. Maximum day\u00a0production\u00a0was 1.12 MG on December 14th. <strong>19.85 inches of rainfall<\/strong> were recorded at the treatment plant site during the month. We took no water from the Portland Water Bureau source for about 10 days in December due to elevated turbidity in the Bull Run system as a result of the heavy rains we had during the month. While these elevated turbidity levels still comply with the\u00a0regulations for an unfiltered source like Portland&#8217;s it does require extra sampling and monitoring on our part. It is easier to turn off the PWB source and draw more water from Alder Creek and Brownell Springs during these events. Even though we can treat\u00a0the water from Alder Creek its\u00a0water quality was equally affected by the heavy rain. CH2M staff worked diligently to meet standards during these high rainfall and streamflow events.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WASTEWATER \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>A total of 109<em>,<\/em>800,000 gallons of sewage were treated and discharged to Tickle Creek. Minimum flow was 1.62 MGD on the 1st. Maximum flow was 6.52\u00a0MGD on the 7th. Rainfall was 1.6 inches on the 6th and 2.25 on the 7th. A total of <strong>20.02 inches\u00a0of rainfall<\/strong> were\u00a0recorded during December.\u00a0\u00a0BOD concentration was 11.4 mg\/l; BOD loading was 348\u00a0lbs; permit allows 10\u00a0mg\/l and 125\u00a0lbs.; SS concentration was 16.2 mg\/l; SS loading was 497\u00a0lbs.; permit allows 10 mg\/l and 125 lbs. \u00a0Due to heavy rainfall in December the wastewater plant exceeded permit limits. \u00a0The pumps at Marcy St.; Northside, Southside, Southeast, Southwest and Meinig Ave. lift stations ran a total of 1340\u00a0hours with no significant problems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>STREETS<\/strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><strong>&amp;\u00a0STORM<\/strong><em>\u00a0<\/em>\u2013\u00a0The street sweeping contractor spent 73\u00a0hours sweeping streets and collected more than 40\u00a0tons (70\u00a0cu. yds.) of debris, covering 241\u00a0lane miles. The stormwater system responded well during the heavy rain events; we had crews out checking trouble spots during the heaviest rains and most of the problems were caused by storm drains blocked by leaves and debris from the wind storms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PARKS, BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS \u2013 <\/strong>\u00a0More trees blew down at the east end of the Tickle Creek Trail with each storm event, however few of them fell on the trail itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATER\u00a0\u2013 A total of 30,279,000\u00a0gallons of water were treated and delivered, 8,577,000 gallons from\u00a0Alder Creek treatment plant, 10,940,000\u00a0gallons from\u00a0Brownell Springs and 10,762,000\u00a0gallons purchased from City of Portland. Maximum day\u00a0production\u00a0was 1.12 MG on December 14th. 19.85 inches of rainfall were recorded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/2016\/01\/13\/monthly-report-december-2015-public-works-department\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","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=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}