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So it’s tough to exercise these. Sometimes they are susceptible to lightning strikes so it’s tough to maintain.
But | got a great staff, maintenance crew stays on top of these pumps and motors. But it is an aged facility still
even though we got a lot of new stuff, we are constantly trying to keep up with all the updates, new things, new
regulations coming down, we have to meet those. So there’s new projects on the horizon, but | think we are
sitting a lot better than we were. We've come a long way and like | mentioned before, it’s important for us to,
instead of putting out fires, kind of stay ahead of it and you know maintain all this stuff. So far we are doing a
real good job, unfortunately things break.
Mayor Donchess
So who is the original manufacturer of the pump?
Mr. Boucher
This was, | want to say it — | think this ones an ABA, I’d have to go back and verify that. ABS pump on this one.
Typically ABS, ABA pumps and Gorman Rupp Pumps, we like to stay with similar brands but some brand
names don’t make the large size pumps. Gorman Rupp is the most typical pump we see through the town. It’s
the ones that are going in all the pump stations. The larger ones, few manufacturers of real large pumps. So
ABS is this one, then we have a few ABA ones in the facility.
Mayor Donchess
Ok any other questions or comments?
Alderwoman Kelly
I’m sorry Jim, if | could just respond to that.
Mayor Donchess
Yeah go ahead.
Alderwoman Kelly
Thank you and thank you for that synopsis, | really appreciate you and your team and it sounds like especially
with the drought, it would have been especially hard to exercise this pump in the last even year. We haven’t
had enough rain. Alright, thank you.
Mr. Boucher
You're welcome.
Mayor Donchess
Anyone else? (There were none.)
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman Klee, Alderman Harriott-Gathright,
Alderwoman Kelly, Alderman O’Brien, Mayor Donchess 5
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED
