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Brainerd utility staff report: outages largely restored; staff to draft private-water maintenance agreements and seeks lead-and-copper test participants
Summary
Operations staff reported restoring about 500 outage-affected customers after a wind event, will meet with USGS for flow monitoring, plans to propose maintenance agreements for roughly 72 privately owned distribution systems, and is seeking about a dozen homes from 1982—66 for lead-and-copper testing.
Operations Manager Trent gave a wide-ranging operations update that covered recent restoration work, monitoring, private-water-system issues and public-health testing needs.
Outages and mutual aid: Trent said staff provided mutual aid to a neighboring utility over the weekend and that a recent high-wind event left roughly 500 customers without power at the peak of the outage; crews restored most customers within a few hours. "We were able to restore most of those customers…
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