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Public Works lays out 6-year plan; aging treatment-plant equipment, generator failure and stormwater compliance flagged
Summary
Public Works Director Jay Herrst told council the department is shifting to proactive maintenance, replacing aging treatment-plant and generator systems, and planning smoke testing and basin projects to address stormwater-sewer cross-connections.
Public Works Director Jay Herrst presented the department’s updated six‑year work plan and described recent infrastructure incidents and near-term projects that will shape capital spending in 2025–2026.
Herrst said the department is shifting toward proactive maintenance to reduce repeat repairs and extended outages. “We want to go for reactive or proactive maintenance. Do it once doing right is what we say,” he told the council.
Treatment-plant incident and equipment risk
Herrst described a winter storm and power-outage incident in which a generator transfer switch did not properly transfer loads; staff manually operated controls and…
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