Laketown Council Meeting

Bobbie Bicknell Coray, Reporter
Rich Civic Times

LAKETOWN, Utah. March 4, 2020.  A Motion by Council member Dallas Clark seconded by Council member Delora Wight to approve installation of the CentraCom tower on the top of Last Chance Hill to provide line of site high speed internet service to Laketown residents, Round Valley and the east side of the lake was approved.

Dan Stringham, Public Works, anticipates a need to shut off the pumps of the water system in the summer and feels this will be easier than programming the system to have the pumps run only at night. The solar panel on the new water tank tipped over in the wind storm and broke. A two-inch steel pipe is holding the solar panel up. It will be fixed in the next two weeks and is under a one-year warranty.  Stringham called the installer and Mayor Burdette Weston called the engineer and they sent pictures to both.

Stringham spoke to Bryan Stringham about an estimate on the costs for SCADA for the tank in Mill Canyon and the power for it.  He will provide the information on the costs and specs on the wire size to the Town Council in the next meeting. Battery power, solar panels and hard wire are the options for bringing electricity to power it. Direct burial is about $500 for a roll. Installation will take place in May or June.

Stringham said that the State may require further water lead samples. He will pay to have the Water Consumer Confidence Report completed by Rural Water Association for $50. He normally completes this while at the conference at no charge but could not get in this year as they were full when he called to schedule this. It has to be completed by July 1, 2020. At the Rural Water Conference Stringham learned that in two years the State will be requiring lead water sampling in schools and day cares.

Stringham looked at the water tank cement patch and it held up over the winter. He thinks that now that we have the tank out there for fire flow, the old tanks could be shut off in the winter and feed directly from the spring which would add another 25-pounds of pressure.   There is 80 foot of elevation from the spring to the tanks. The highest-pressure zone in town is about 70 pounds at the bottom of Last Chance.   Mayor Weston was concerned that the added pressure might cause problems in the old galvanized pipes in town. Tyler Stuart asked if any others in town are having problems with high pressure as both ends of his toilet fittings blew recently. Stingham will begin work on the pipe loop after he gets a UDOT permit and when the weather is good in about a month. Dan thinks it is worth it to pound the pipes through the road. It will cost $2,000 more. Mayor Weston asked Stringham to confirm the amount of increase in the water sample budget item.

The Council amended the FY 2020 General Fund Budget to accurately represent Expenses: Park Maintenance (increase by $2,875), Sanitation (increase by $1,100) and Office Utilities (increase by $100); and the Water Fund Budget to accurately represent Revenue.   Bond (increase by $10,000) and Water Service (increase by $40,904); and Expenses: Capital Outlay (increase by $99,534), Professional Fees (decrease by $15,000), Utilities (increase by $2,210) and Water Samples (increase by $1,822).