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City Council Water & Sewer Subcommittee <br />May 15, 2003 <br />Page 8 <br /> <br />money if this innovation appears to be working. Chairman Plata stated that you <br />could leave it like it is. <br /> <br />City Manager Malone advised that the city has engineers who have training and <br />expertise to make these recommendations and he felt that if the City Council <br />wanted to make a different recommendation, it would behoove each member <br />of the committee or the City Council to actually visit some of the facilities that <br />the city has and become familiar with the operations of these plants. <br /> <br />City Manager Malone passed out a memorandum on Councilman Plata's <br />Recommendation Number Three: ~'Eliminate $100,000.00 budgeted for new <br />valves to be installed while old ones could be rebuilt at the (sic) fraction of the <br />cost". <br /> <br />City Manager Malone said that on page four of the minutes of the Special City <br />Council Meeting of September 19, 2002, beginning with the second paragraph, <br />Councilman Plata questioned the proposed expenditure of $85,000.00 in line <br />item 10-0403-82-00, Filter beds and valves. The account was and is budgeted <br />for an $85,000.00 expenditure and is a maintenance account, not capital. <br /> <br />Mr. Campbell explained at the meeting in September that part of the funds in <br />this account were to be used to replace the effluent valve controller (not <br />valves) on ten valves on the filters. Mr. Campbell explained that the new rules <br />and regulations require that all of the filters be monitored continuously for the <br />quality of the water output. This water quality is charted continuously and is <br />kept as a record. Mr. Campbell explained that, if you surge the filters, then the <br />turbidity of the water will go up and will show up as a spike on our graphs. <br />The magnitude and duration of the spike is now regulated by TCEQ, and if we <br />have a spike ora certain magnitude and duration, we will be subject to public <br />notification and possible publication of a %oil water notice". These controls <br />were put on there eight years ago when the plant was modified and they are <br />wearing out. The new filter effluent controllers are more precise and will allow <br />the valves to be controlled more carefully, avoiding the violation of water <br />quality standards that are newly mandated. <br /> <br /> <br />