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County temporarily restores fueling after decades-old pump controller fails; replacement quoted at $12,000
Summary
Howard County's fueling system was offline for two weeks after a control unit failure; the road and bridge engineer described a two-person manual fueling workaround and said a cloud-based replacement controller was quoted at about $12,000 and will be considered for purchase from the oil-and-gas budget.
Klintzik told commissioners county fuel pumps stopped working when a control unit that had been in service since 1995 failed, leaving the county without on-site fueling for two weeks. He described a temporary procedure requiring two people: one at the pump and the other to operate a remote breaker so pumps run only when supervised to avoid damaging submersible pumps. Klintzik said a vendor (DNH) quoted a cloud-based replacement system at about $12,000 and that he planned to include the repair in a future meeting packet for purchase from the oil-and-gas budget.
Klintzik said staff managed operations during the outage by routing vehicles to external fueling locations to maintain winter operations. Commissioners asked that the replacement be brought to the next meeting for formal action and that staff work with Wanda (budget) to identify funding.
