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Meet our New Employees Dear CWA Members, On behalf of the Board of Trustees, I am proud to introduce three new employees of your water system maintenance staff. Both the CWA Manager, Ted Kendig, and CWA Assistant Manager, Roger Drake, come to us with extremely impressive qualifications. And Brian Scott with his drive and determination, to go along with his knowledge of the area, completes a well-balanced crew that we should all be proud of. We searched long and hard through multiple media outlets, and screened several qualified applicants to assemble this talented group of professionals and we feel we have succeeded in ensuring that your water quality will be unsurpassed. Please take the time to read their credentials and get acquainted with their faces. And if you happen to see one or all three working in your area, stop and say "hello." Ben Pacheco Ted Kendig Ted Kendig is serving our members as Manager and Operator of the Crescent Water Association. Ted’s work experience includes: Operations, maintenance, construction, management and repair of municipal, city and privatized water distribution systems, water and wastewater treatment plants, wastewater collection systems and watershed lake management. His experience also includes installation and repair of: various pumps, motors, storage tanks, pressure vessels, online instrumentation, flow control valves, water main, sewer lines, service connections and taps, metering pumps, chlorine and ammonia feed systems, bulk chemical feed & containment systems, flow metering devices, water treatment structures, various valves and hydrants, filters and pre-treatment applications, large commercial and small water meters, electrical controls and level control devices. Ted determined and established job costs for large and small projects, was responsible for crew supervision, State and Federal reporting, budgeting, purchasing, scheduling, customer service, public relations, and assisted engineering groups and contractors with large and small scale projects. He has performed vast lab analyses, sampling, paper tracking and transportation for water and wastewater, and has maintained recordkeeping and equipment calibration. Ted is experienced with emergency planning, Homeland Security and chemical release and spill response using PPE (personal protection equipment) and repair equipment. And he is familiar and knowledgeable of SCADA systems, radio and dedicated phone line communications and computer operations. Ted’s Work History over the past 25 years includes: Regional Plant Supervisor for Brazos River Authority in Texas. He performed tasks relating to operation, maintenance & management of a regional water plant & distribution system. He maintained total quality management for a 12 MGD (million gallon per day) Roberts Filter water production plant with a crew of three. Senior Maintenance Tech II for City of Round Rock in Texas. Ted provided the city with the expertise and experience needed to start up a new department within the Utility Support division. General Manager and Operator for Ark Water Resources, Inc. in Texas. Ted was acting GM and part owner of a water utility management company providing operations and maintenance for multiple water and wastewater municipal and privatized districts. Water Plant Production Operator for the Lower Colorado River Authority in Texas. Field Operator for Severn Trent Environmental Services in Texas. Water plant and field
operator for Las Virgenes Municipal Water District in California. Ted Roger Drake Roger served as our Interim Manager as we completed our search for a full-time water manager. As with Ted, Roger received approval from the State to serve as our Operator. Though he has been with us a very short time, Roger has absorbed a lot of information about our water system, to include the location of our 951 meters. He has examined our operations and has provided the Board with an overview of areas needing improvement. Roger will continue to serve our members as a resource/special project person and part-time employee. Roger’s work experience includes: Water Treatment Plant Operator for the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in Arizona. Utilities Systems Operator for a class 3 water treatment plant in Yellowstone National Park. Wastewater
Treatment Plant Operator for the Grand Canyon National Park. His tasks Utility
Systems Operator & Leader for the Mount Rainier National Park where he was
chief At the Whidbey
Island Naval Air Station Roger spent time operating a water system with gas And, he spent time
operating a class 3 water treatment plant with rapid sand filtration and gas Brian Scott The newest member of our staff, Brian Scott, is no stranger to our area. He knows many of the houses in our service area from his FedEx days—he had the first FedEx franchise in our area and grew his business to include three other drivers. After some 19 years in our area, Brian and his family moved to the east coast. One winter there convinced him to move back to the Peninsula, but during his time in Pennsylvania Brian worked for a borough water system. His tasks there included maintaining and repairing water systems, valve replacement, new water service hook-ups, culvert repair, road and sidewalk repair, brush control, and well maintenance. 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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