City Council Agenda and Packet 1984 06 30

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MEMORANDUM TO: • MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL FROM: LEON A. WURL, CITY ADMINISTRATOR DATE: JUNE 28, 1984 RE: WATERING RESTRICTIONS I first want to apologize for the consternation caused you by the recent events relating to the imposition of water restrictions I want also to apologize for the timing of this information. I had hoped to provide you with this information much earlier this week. Unfortunately, all the data was not available and we were unable to meet with the contractor until Wednesday, June 27th. Under sepatate cover you have received a memo from Karl Kitsch which outlines the status of the situation, projected completion dates, and additional items that will be required in terms of construction in order to bring our old plant production level up to the 3. 5 million gallon level. Also attached is a letter from Rocky Mountain Consultants explaining their position on the matter. This should explain the technical aspects of the problem. I would like also to explain to the Mayor and Council why you received such short notice as relates to the problem. First , I want to emphasize that the total information available to us until just recently was that the capacity limitation at the water plant related directly to our undersized pretreatment facility; and that the new basin would be completed by the deadline, but could extend into early July. In the last week of May, we began to have problems which we related to the contractor 's inability to construct a connection to our reservoir pipeline in the allocated time period. The project was to have taken 2 days and required 11 days. This resulted in our inability to take water from the reservoir and forced us to use the more turbid water direct from the Eldorado Springs pipeline. We thought we resolved this problem by the early utilization of Marshall water and by pumping over the dam and into the pre-treatment facility. This resolved our problems only temporarily. We then discovered that the filter plant, while under high demand status, could not produce its rated capacity. As a matter of fact , we were only able to produce half of the plant 's capacity.