OWUI
Olga Water Users, Incorporated
MONTHLY BOARD MEETING MINUTES
Tuesday, March 7th, 2023 6pm — Olga Community Center
1. Call to Order. 6:03PM Board members present: Pat Boehm, Dave Noneman, Guy Woods, Paul Groeninger, Geoff Cunard, EWUA operator Sam Prado
2. Approval of minutes for February: Approved unanimously
3. OWUI Operators Report : Board asks Sam to reduce the chlorine input which is currently much higher than the state minimum. Sam will dial the chlorine back. Pat asks Sam about valves and lines at the plant in the old pump house. He proposes we decommission the pump house and add a meter at the downstream side of the tank. Only using 9.5 gpm in Feb. 14000 gal/day. Last Feb, we used 40,000/day. Instantaneous flow meter at plant not functioning currently. Sam asks us if we should replace it? Sam will ask meter company is they will send us a temporary meter while we overhaul it. Board decides to wait before spending money on this.
4. OWUI Administrators report
1. Late Notice letter to be sent . WALT account in progress
5. Treasurer/ Financial report
IRS forms have been sent. Guy is working on 6 year budget for SWSMP.
6. OLD Business:
a. Intertie Update. There is still a question about the availability of the appropriate vault for the control station. Pat will talk to Island Ex about this. Dave will ask Rock Island if they will share cost for road crossing.
i. SWSMP update submittal needed: Ecology is asking about our water rights. Dave will reach out to Tom Pors re: water rights assessment. Geoff is working on update.
1. contracting with Barry Buchanan for assistance Dave suggests we reach out to DOH for help with the SWSMP. It might be a very minimal update is needed.
ii. Final engineering & plan: Ongoing waiting for county approval.
b. Leak Detection Update Pat and Paul have found that our previous ideas for branch metering are outdated. Howard from Correct Equipment suggests 6” meters on the branches would be a waste of money. Instead he proposes we use an electronic meter made by Kamstrup that use RF technology to communicate, and they detect sound to find leaks in real time. We are looking into this.
c. Bookkeeper search update. Guy is still working on it.
7. New business
a. email system/ electronic mailing list milestone Admin will compile a list of missing emails, and send letters to those members telling them we are transitioning to electronic communication.
8. Public Access: Nobody present.
9. Next meeting time April 11, 2023 5:00PM
10.Adjournment 8:00 PM
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