{"id":291,"date":"2016-03-14T20:15:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T20:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/?p=291"},"modified":"2016-03-14T20:16:55","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T20:16:55","slug":"monthly-report-february-2016-public-works-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/2016\/03\/14\/monthly-report-february-2016-public-works-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Monthly Report February, 2016 &#8211; Public Works Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WATER<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A total of 28,230,000\u00a0gallons of water were treated and delivered, 2,330,000 gallons from\u00a0Alder Creek treatment plant, 10,230,000\u00a0gallons from\u00a0Brownell Springs and 15,670,000\u00a0gallons purchased from City of Portland. Maximum day\u00a0production\u00a0was 1.13 MG on February\u00a015th. 8.5 inches of rainfall were recorded at the treatment plant site during the month.\u00a0Some of the perimeter fencing at the water treatment plant that was damaged by fallen trees was replaced.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WASTEWATER<\/strong><em><strong> \u2013\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>A total of 67,140,000 gallons of sewage were treated and discharged to Tickle Creek. Minimum flow was 1.51 MGD on the 10th. Maximum flow was 3.63\u00a0MGD on the 18th. Rainfall was 1.0 inches on the 17th and 0.75 inches\u00a0on the 18th. A total of 6.82\u00a0inches\u00a0of rainfall were\u00a0recorded during February.\u00a0\u00a0BOD concentration was 9.5\u00a0mg\/l; BOD loading was 161\u00a0lbs; permit allows 10\u00a0mg\/l and 125\u00a0lbs.; SS concentration was 12.5\u00a0mg\/l; SS loading was 191\u00a0lbs.; permit allows 10 mg\/l and 125 lbs. \u00a0Due to equipment failure and heavy rainfall in February\u00a0the wastewater plant exceeded permit limits.<em> \u00a0<\/em>The pumps at Marcy St.; Northside, Southside, Southeast, Southwest and Meinig Ave. lift stations ran a total of 682\u00a0hours with no significant problems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>STREETS<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>&amp;\u00a0STORM<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The street sweeping contractor spent 48\u00a0hours sweeping streets and collected more than 10\u00a0tons (18\u00a0cu. yds.) of debris, covering 152\u00a0lane miles. We were able to take advantage of the dry weather and get a contractor in to replace damaged sidewalk panels at City parks and associated with water or sewer repair projects. During the same stretch of dry weather\u00a0PW\u00a0staff installed about 250 feet of 12&#8243; storm drain pipe and a catch basin in Tupper Rd., eliminating a roadside ditch that was difficult and expensive to maintain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PARKS, BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS \u2013 <\/strong>\u00a0The contractor performing the invasive species removal in the Tickle Creek corridor sprayed all the invasives and began removing plants that had been sprayed in December and January. P,B&amp;G staff coordinated contractor removal of windthrown timber and planting of 36 conifer trees at the east end of the Tickle Creek trail. We filled the Parks Seasonal Worker position in February\u00a0this year to help fill in for a\u00a0permanent\u00a0employee out on extended sick leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATER\u00a0\u2013 A total of 28,230,000\u00a0gallons of water were treated and delivered, 2,330,000 gallons from\u00a0Alder Creek treatment plant, 10,230,000\u00a0gallons from\u00a0Brownell Springs and 15,670,000\u00a0gallons purchased from City of Portland. Maximum day\u00a0production\u00a0was 1.13 MG on February\u00a015th. 8.5 inches of rainfall were recorded at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/2016\/03\/14\/monthly-report-february-2016-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-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","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=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}