{"id":311,"date":"2016-10-16T19:20:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T19:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/?p=311"},"modified":"2016-10-17T23:28:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T23:28:29","slug":"monthly-report-september-2016-public-works-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/2016\/10\/16\/monthly-report-september-2016-public-works-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Monthly Report September 2016 &#8211; Public Works Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WATER<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A total of 38,734,500\u00a0gallons of water were treated and delivered, 13,284,000\u00a0gallons from\u00a0Alder Creek treatment plant, 10,584,000\u00a0gallons from\u00a0Brownell Springs and 14,866,500\u00a0gallons purchased from City of Portland. Maximum day\u00a0production\u00a0was 1.72 MG on September 1st. 4.72\u00a0inches of rainfall were recorded at the treatment plant site during the month. Two failed pumps and motors were replaced at Terra Fern pump station. CH2M staff worked on replacing the influent header to one of the filter units. City staff removed the last of the sludge from the backwash pond and graded and re-seeded the storage area at the treatment plant site.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WASTEWATER<\/strong><em><strong> \u2013\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>A total of 33,830,000 gallons of sewage were treated and pumped\u00a0to Iseli Nursery for irrigation. Minimum flow was 0.7\u00a0MGD on the 24th. Maximum flow was 1.69 MGD on the 18th. Rainfall was 1.25\u00a0inches on the 17th and 0.5 inches\u00a0on the 18th. A total of 3.25\u00a0inches\u00a0of rainfall were\u00a0recorded during September.\u00a0\u00a0BOD concentration was 19.3\u00a0mg\/l; BOD loading was 181\u00a0lbs; permit allows 10\u00a0mg\/l and 125\u00a0lbs.; SS concentration was 21.9\u00a0mg\/l; SS loading was 208\u00a0lbs.; permit allows 10 mg\/l and 125 lbs. \u00a0Permit limits do not apply when the water is used for irrigation, these figures are shown to demonstrate plant efficiency. 209\u00a0metric tons of sludge was processed and 381\u00a0metric tons were hauled and spread on DEQ-approved pasture sites.<em>\u00a0<\/em>The pumps at Marcy St.; Northside, Southside, Southeast, Southwest and Meinig Ave. lift stations ran a total of 274\u00a0hours with no significant problems. CH2M staff replaced some of the surface media on the effluent filters in September.<\/p>\n<p><strong>STREETS<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>&amp;\u00a0STORM<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The street sweeping contractor spent 57 hours sweeping streets and collected more than 19\u00a0tons (32 cu. yds.) of debris, covering 173 lane miles. PW Staff used 6 tons of asphalt patching potholes and utility trenches.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PARKS, BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS \u2013 <\/strong>\u00a0Parks, Buildings and Grounds staff closed off portions\u00a0of the dog park at Sandy Bluff in order to re-seed the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATER\u00a0\u2013 A total of 38,734,500\u00a0gallons of water were treated and delivered, 13,284,000\u00a0gallons from\u00a0Alder Creek treatment plant, 10,584,000\u00a0gallons from\u00a0Brownell Springs and 14,866,500\u00a0gallons purchased from City of Portland. Maximum day\u00a0production\u00a0was 1.72 MG on September 1st. 4.72\u00a0inches of rainfall were recorded at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/2016\/10\/16\/monthly-report-september-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-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","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=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/publicworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}