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Public Works update: aging equipment, AMI meter rollout and brief untreated discharge after generator failure
Summary
Public Works Director Jay Hertz reviewed a six-year capital plan, equipment-maintenance priorities and the AMI meter rollout; he described a recent generator-transfer failure that allowed about a half hour of undisinfected treated water to enter Oakland Bay and outlined steps to reduce similar risks.
Public Works Director Jay Hertz presented an updated six-year work plan and described both near-term projects and a recently mitigated treatment-plant incident.
Hertz said the department is moving from reactive to proactive maintenance, planning a 2026 equipment-maintenance and rental study and preparing to replace aging, high-cost assets, such as a Vactor/combination truck he estimated at roughly $350,000.
Hertz summarized a recent winter incident at a wastewater facility in which a transfer switch did not…
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