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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - WC - 04/12/2016 Cohasset Water ' - D E P A R T M E N T Commissioners ��mire 1950 Leonora C. Jenkins as atuss .T Rolf N. G'esteb John W. Steinmetz Minutes of the Cohasset Board of Water Commissioners 339 King Street—Water Treatment Plant Tuesday, April 12, 2016 @ 10:00 am Members Present: Leonora Jenkins, Chairman Rolf Gjesteby, Vice-Chairman John Steinmetz, Clerk Recording Secretary: Brenda Douglas Guests Present: Joe Geary Lee called the meeting called to order at 10:10 am, 2nd by Rolf all in favor. Scituate Hill Storage Facility Brian Joyce was unable to attend the meeting but informed Brenda that he had nothing to report on the storage facility. John gave an update to the board. He stated that he has forwarded the information to Dave Fulton and reached out to town counsel. John explained that he does not know what the procedure is going forward. John then said that someone from town counsel reached out to Rich Henderson. John ran into Rich Henderson and he has worked on a draft. In the meantime we received a bill from town counsel in the amount of$859.20. John will take the bill and forward to Dave Fulton. John will make sure that we are not billed or named in any other bills. John will follow up with an e-mail and cc everyone. Joe stated that Art Leventis at Woodard& Curran was working for Tutela Engineering when the line was put in and would be a good resource. The board asked if anyone had reached out to Art, Joe that no one has reached out to him. Specs on Roof Brian Joyce has not done the specs yet. Woodard & Curran DEP Application for Ellms Meadow: I"thing to do was get pricing of what is needed to be done for upgrades ie: SCADA, Joe said Carl informed him that other things need to be looked at so the engineer came and met with Carl. Controller upgrades and security devices are just a few of the things that need to be looked.at. The amount of money that would be needed was estimated at$25,000. Joe needs to talk to Carl to see what is necessary and what is on a wish list. Lee said that there will be another meeting in 2 weeks. Joe said one of the items on the list was a fluoride analyzer which cost $6,000. 339 King Street, Cohasset, Massachusetts 02025 Tel: (781) 383-0057 Fax: (781) 383-2906 www.cohassetwater.org Joe does not feel that it can be overfed so it may not be necessary, but again he would prefer to speak with Carl when he gets back from vacation. Joe reminded the board when Woodard & Curran took over they informed the board when going thru the SCADA system that Ellms Meadow was not secure. Woodard& Curran said they could do a simple fix but that's when the board decided to go to radio frequency. When the radio signal project died so did the concerns for the secured lines. Going to radio the sites would be secure. Lee requested more information on the conversion to radio. Joe informed the board that this site is secure.No one can dial in to the plant and turn on/off etc. Lee asked if DEP would need to be notified. Joe said they would not. The board would like to put this on for FY2017. Joe will see if any grants are available for the upgrade. Specs for Tank Painting: Specs have not been received yet. Sodium Hydroxide Conversion: Joe reported Carl had the Carus vendor come out to take a look at our corrosion control and see what it was doing. In the vendor's opinion, he thought that if we went away from lime and went to caustic, that we would see a decrease in our alkalinity. Joe is going to have someone from the Andover office come next week and do a titration to see if in fact that this would happen. The engineer will probably be Nate Little. The vendors opinion was that because our pH is low and he mentioned that by taking away the lime that would take away calcium,because our water is right on the edge,he feels that it would not be a good idea. Joe spoke to Toby Feder and Toby said he would not do the conversion until the next round of lead & copper testing. Carl and Joe agree with that, and to go forward with more testing before doing the conversion. Joe explained that a new list of Lead& Copper sample sites is going to be sent to DEP for approval due to people dropping off the original Tier 1 list. Milfoil: DPW will be contacted to see if they would like the stuff in the bag for their mulch pile. John will check with Michael Bleakie to see if he is interested in it as well. Lee will call Holly Hill Farm to see if they are interested. Financials: Mary told Lee that it could be as high as $400K in retained earnings for the year. Expenditure report was reviewed as well. John made motion to approve the abatement request for 18 Elm Street, each abatement was in the amount of$187.00 for an overcharge in"Unmetered Unit Charge"for the last 3 quarters; this was 2"d by Rolf all in favor. John made a motion to approve March 15, 20 t 6 &March 29, 2016 meeting notes this was 2"d by Rolf all in favor. Rolf wanted to know if there is any new information on the causeway. No one had anything to report. Rolf then showed a report of rebates given in Duxbury, and the process. They have stopped the process, which is similar to ours, because they felt there was not official policy. Lee wanted Joe or Carl to look into vacuuming the front of the intake again this year and go out farther this year. Joe said that Carl is planning on looking into that and possibly getting a larger bag. 339 King Street, Cohasset, Massachusetts 02025 Tel: (781) 383-0057 Fax: (781) 383-2906 www.cohassetwater.org P The Next regular meeting of the Water Commission will be on April 27t'at 12:00 and include the DEP coming in at 1:00. Rolf Motion made by to adjourn the meeting atl 1:18 this was 2nd by John all in favor. Respectfully Submitted, Brenda Douglas, Recording Secretary Approved By: AtWeinmetz, , l �u Dater ' Joh Clerk Cohasset Board of Water Commissions 339 King Street, Cohasset, Massachusetts 02025 Tel: (781) 383-0057 Fax: (781) 383-2906 www.cohassetwater.org