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Water plant filters delivered; city on drought-warning phase for Rainy River Basin
Summary
Bolton & Menk engineer Luke Heikala told the council that four new filters for the water treatment plant are on-site and that the first two should be online by the end of October; he also said the Rainy River Basin is at a DNR drought-warning response phase and residents should be asked to conserve voluntarily.
Luke Heikala of Bolton & Menk updated the council on the city's water-treatment retrofit, saying two filters to be started first have been delivered and placed on-site and that all four filters are now at the plant (two inside, two stored outside). Heikala said accessory piping, instrumentation, air-wash media and chemical feed equipment remain to be installed and that he would not expect the first filters to be online and operating until about the end of October.
Heikala also briefed the council on a Rainy River Basin drought-warning response phase announced by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. He described the warning as district-wide and voluntary at this stage and said the city should prepare notices encouraging residents to restrict nonessential water use; staff said they will prepare a flyer and social-media notice. "We're just currently now on the hey. We're getting a little bit low here," Heikala said, urging voluntary conservation while noting that mandatory restrictions would follow only as triggers progress.
