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Quarterly Newsletter Crescent Water Association is currently:
Operational Costs: Clallam County fees for permits pertaining to water line placement on county road right-of-way and wetland evaluations have cost over $10,000 so far this year. WSDOH charges us for reviewing our projects and plans for system improvements. Their base charge rate is $99 per hour. This has cost almost $4,000 since January 2005. The Washington State Department of Transportation charges for permits to place lines alongside or under state highways and requires preparation of detailed drawings of work to be performed. If you have any questions, please call us at 928-3128. John Palzer
Quarterly Newsletter This in-depth Newsletter is for the annual meeting of the Membership, currently 868. The major work effort for last year was the completion of the Lyre River water filter plant. The plant has been inspected and approved by Clallam County and the Washington State Department of Health (WSDOH). Your quality of water has improved; the new plant filters are removing 99.999%+ of all particulates from your drinking water. A few of the other accomplishments for the year were:
Some of the work efforts planned for 2005 are:
Water Summary:
4/11/05
January 17, 2005 El Nino winters typically bring our part of the country warmer, drier weather. While we are behind normal in rainfall for the season, we certainly haven’t been warmer lately! The past two weeks we have been plagued by an arctic low persisting off our coast, while California is experiencing the Pineapple Express, a weather phenomenon that we are quite familiar with. It is that arctic low that issued in a snow storm a little more than a week ago that caused a power outage in our area. Though Clallam PUD was able to expeditiously return power to most, if not all, of us, such was not the case with the Crescent Water Treatment Plant. Our Plant operates on a separate sub-station, but it was a main feeder to the sub-station that had failed. There were quite a number of PUD crews working on that particular outage, but it still took 3 days, until 4:00 p.m. on Monday, before power was restored at the Water Plant. In the meantime, we had at least one employee at the Plant almost continuously (once we cleared trees from the roads—quite an undertaking in itself). Our back-up generators were put on line and we were able to pump water through the Plant to you during the power outage. On Saturday, however, the generator shut off, starved for fuel. The two generators pulling propane rapidly from the tank, combined with the below-freezing ambient temperature, caused the propane freeze. At this point no water was going through the Treatment Plant—the only supply you had was what was already in the tanks and lines. And so, many of us ran completely out of water or were down to a trickle. We located a skidder to clear the road to the plant so that the Ferrell Gas truck could deliver more propane to us. That delivery was made Sunday. While we were waiting, one of our employees constructed a shroud for the propane tank so that warm air could be vented to the tank, preventing it from freezing again. Sunday afternoon the generators were operating again and we worked to fill the tanks and water lines and bled the air from the stand-pipes along the system. As a courtesy, the Crescent Water Manager notified the State that we had experienced a power outage. Although all the water that has come out of your tap has been filtered through the Treatment Plant and in compliance with all State regulations, the State suggested that we send out a “boil water advisory notice”. We want to reassure you that there is not, and has not been, anything wrong with the water. All water samples have been declared “satisfactory” by the testing laboratory. While the water system was recharging (returning water pressure to you and refilling the storage tanks), a 4” main pipe failed late on January 10. All maintenance employees and three volunteer Trustees worked to find the failure as quickly as possible. The break was located and repaired by 8 pm Tuesday Emergencies and natural disasters can happen at any time. It is important for us all to have evacuation plans and meeting places for our family members and to maintain at least a three-day supply of emergency equipment, food, and water. Keeping gallon jugs or bottles of water on hand will ensure you have necessary drinking water in time of emergency. As always, we thank you for your patience Jim Beauvais, President January 13, 2005 The Precautionary Boil Water 3 - 5 Minutes for All Human Consumption Advisory from the Washington State Department of Health for the Crescent Water Association has been rescinded. All water samples tested were satisfactory. |
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Designed by: Connie Beauvais Last Updated: October 31, 2005 |
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