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8/21/84 Page -6- WATER TREATMENT PLANT Acting City Administrator Rupp reported STATUS REPORT - LIFTING that at the Thurday evening study session, WATER RESTRICTIONS August 16th, Rocky Mountain Consultants and Val Leiker, Supt. of Water and Wastewater Plants provided Council with a status re- port of how things were progressing at the water treatment plant; indicated what was going to take place with the testing and they planned to take additional tests over the weekend. Bill Schuler, Rocky Mtn. Mr. Schuler stated all the components of Consultants the water treatment plant are now in and operable. The testing had not gone quite as well as they had hoped. They had tested the plant at 5 MGD over an extended .period of time and feel very comfortable with that. 6 MGD had been thru the plant today and even 7 MGD for a short period of time. There is some difficulty with the soda ash feeder; the auger for this piece of equipment that was delivered was the wrong size. A new one had been ordered but as of today had not been received. They took some additional steps to get the auger; did receive it and was being installed this evening. They had not been able to test the plant at 6 MGD for a given period of time - while the rains had been a blessing for the lawns they have worked as a detriment as it is difficult to get enough space in the storage tank to keep them from filling up quickly. It was his recommendation that a phasing of the watering restrictions be adopted, i.e. every third day with no hourly limitation for 2 cyles enabling them to work with Mr. Leiker to get the plant fully tested. Also, get his operators properly trained and get a better feel for proper chemical usage required for the flow rates. Manual or Automatic Mode In reply to Mayor Meier's inquiry, Mr. Schuler replied they anticipate by tomorrow everything should be operating on a full automatic mode. Hydraulically it is on automatic mode now; the problem is with the chemical feed equipment. Mayor Meier stated that he would not favor going to any restrictions that would need our operators to work 12 hours a day for a manual mode of operation.