Finance Committee - 11/04/2020 Page 7
ON THE QUESTION
Mayor Donchess
Is Mr. Boucher on the call?
David Boucher, Wastewater Superintendent
Yes, Mayor | am, David Boucher, Wastewater Superintendent. As mentioned, one of our 20 million gallons per
day pumps failed in our wet weather facility. And we sent out to the motor to First Electric because of the age
of the pump, it’s not very old, so it’s still a good pump. We sent out the motor, they disassembled it to look at it
to see if it was worth rebuilding; they can rebuild it. We'd like to utilize their service, since it is apart on their
floor. So what they do is they would rewind the stater of this pump, we would get a warranty. We’ve used
them for a lot smaller pumps. We are very happy with their services. And this is a cost savings for us by
having these pumps rebuilt, the motors.
Mayor Donchess
Anyone have any questions? Alderwoman Kelly.
Alderwoman Kelly
I’m on fire tonight. Thank you for being here, Mr. Boucher. | appreciate all the hard work you’ve done to kind
of get us back in working order. So my question is more general here. Obviously it sounds like this water
pump needs to be taken care of. | believe we talked about this and maybe you’ve already provided it and | just
forgot. But | just wanted to know if we could get a synopsis of the work that’s been done in the last few years
and you know, what the maintenance plan is so we don’t end up in the same spot in you know 5 or 10 years?
Mr. Boucher
This particular building or the Wastewater Facility in general?
Alderwoman Kelly
It’s funny — I’m not trying to give you a hard time. | feel like everything that you’ve brought forward is stuff that
we need. But | feel like, on we got another wastewater thing. So | would just love to know where we are with
things and you know if someone comes to us and asks we have a pretty good handle on it. | know you’ve been
doing a great job.
Mr. Boucher
We have a lot of projects going on at the wastewater facility. Obviously we’ve got upgrades to our energy
recovery facility that’s also at the wastewater facility; primary tanks are being upgraded we just finished the
water booster station upgrade at the wastewater plant. We are finalizing the six water booster stations in the
City, upgrades to those; we’ve got another 7 more that we will be working on. The wet weather facility, we have
an upgrade in that one going on. We have two new bar racks, they are rather large bar racks, they are
cleaning mechanisms But that is going well; we have one installed another going in. Hopefully those will be
on line, we tested one, but hopefully they will be on line, | want to say January, they will both be tested by then
but the smaller punch list items that are tied to that project that have to be finalized. So things are going good
there.
This is one of those pumps you never know when they are going to die. The facility runs pumps 24/7, you
know? This one didn’t run as much, but sometimes it’s not good to run, we exercise them. This particular
building, it’s tough because to exercise pump you have to have flow going through it. The only time this
building gets flow is during torrential rains, whenever we have over 50 million gallons.
