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<strong>Warner</strong> Village Water DistrictCommissioners’ Report<strong>2011</strong> has been a busy year for the Water District. Steady improvementshave been made to the wastewater treatment facilities and thewater supply system to ensure that these critical services continue tomeet the needs <strong>of</strong> the District.Hurricane Irene caused some problems at the Treatment Plant. Whenpower was lost at the plant and the generator kicked in, the AC switchfailed, causing the influent pumps to stop working. This resulted inflooding in the wet well. The Superintendent was able to pump thewater out <strong>of</strong> the area and correct the problem before restoring the powerand the pumps to service. He and the Operator had to manually clearthe sludge out <strong>of</strong> the area and clean up the mess in the building, notan enviable task.A gate and fencing was installed at the water pump house to preventunauthorized access to the area. We had been having problems withlittering and minor vandalism.Jer has continued the District’s plan for replacing obsolete equipmentat the Water and Sewer Treatment Plants. Testing and control equipment,pumps and motors have been updated and replaced. We havestarted the process <strong>of</strong> rebuilding one <strong>of</strong> the two drying beds at theTreatment Plant, which we will complete in 2012; the second to followwhen the first is completed.The rotor assembly was replaced in ditch #1, which had been removedin February due to a crack in the drive shaft. We were then able toreturn to a two-ditch system.In December a sewer main blockage was reported on West Main Streetnear the C.A.P. building. Jer was able, with help <strong>of</strong> AAA Pump Services,to successfully unplug the stoppage. As this has been a problemarea in the past, it was decided to have the line viewed by camera.AAA viewed the sewer line and cleared some debris out <strong>of</strong> the line. Thecamera showed that aging piping and what may be poor design need tobe addressed as a future project.As part <strong>of</strong> the ongoing updating <strong>of</strong> the plant, the Commissioners areseeking a Community Development Block Grant and also loan/grantfinancing from USDA’s Rural Development to install a second clarifier,which had been part <strong>of</strong> the original plant design but was never installed.This is a weak point in our system. If the original clarifier has114
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