THESE PICTURES LOOK FAMILIAR

Maybe all Flint needs is more Chlorine and Hydrant Flushings? Right Minnetrista?

SOURCE:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3402157/People-Flint-Michigan-share-horrifying-pictures-water-told-safe-drink.html

SIGNING UP FOR HYDRANT FLUSHING WARNINGS

At the March 16th City Council Meeting, City Administrator Michael Barone mentioned they lost all the previous addresses from before. If you want to be on the email notification list, follow the instructions below from the city website. It is disappointing they used "whenever possible" in regards to emailing.


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APRIL 6TH COUNCIL MEETING

CITY COUNCIL MARCH 16 - THE TIMELINE PROMISE

Part 1

Part 2

Such a great turn out from the City of Minnetrista city water users. Conversations became very intense. It's taken me a long time to post these. I stood up as a person to be hear with a lot of other people I know from Hunters Crest. This was my first time addressing the new mayor and council. I felt very put out by the Mrs. Whalen and did not feel as if I was being taken seriously by her or a few of the other council members and city staff workers. I had other reach out after the meeting and say they felt the same way. It's really unfortunate that someone who is supposed to be a representative for us can purposely make you feel so inferior and insignificant.

I'd also like to point out that not everyone who voted for the centralized system last year voted because it was the "cheapest" option. A lot of people I know and myself voted for it because of its efficiencies with the concrete tanks vs steel and it's ability to be easily upgraded to an RO system. 

BLUE WATER

If it's not orange it's blue! Who needs yummy bath salts when you have gobs of chlorine? This photo was taken last night. Nothing was added to the water and as always no photo filters were used on this photo. Yuck.

FEBRUARY 17TH MINNETRISTA CITY COUNCIL MEETING

43:30
Approving the scope for services (design bidding and construction service) for the water treatment facilities.

Decentralized and where?

SITE 1:
North Segment - An independent unit until development can connected it to the central plant. Built for expansion.

SITE 2 :
South West Segment - Kings Point RD being built for expansion.

SITE 3:
Hunters Crest - A possible addition for a future date.

SUM IT UP:
For Hunters Crest the water would still continue to travel a long distance to get to us with the building of the first two sites, 2.5 miles in a 12 inch water main to be exact. Though the pressure would change which is better for fire fighting to1500 gallons/min. with that long travel there is still room for the water to collect sediment along the way.

We should see the plan on where this water tower weather above or below ground is slated to go. I'm pretty sure no one wants to look out their window inside the development and see a large blue tower.

Somewhere between 2007-2010 the city bought $440,000 of land out of the water and sewer fund in hopes to one day use that land for water infrastructures. That has not happened and is not scoped to happen with this new plan. It would only be fair that the city pay back that money to the water fund in order to keep our water rates down as the decentralized system is developed. The mayor left it was a "discussion she is will to have at a later date".

The completion of this project is projected to be between 2017-2010.....we don't have that kind of time.

MONDAY MARCH 2ND COUNCIL MEETING

15:40
Wellhead Protection Water talk. This is the completion of a mandated task put in action by the MN Dept of Health. The city is required to complete part 2 of this protection plan by Dec. 31st 2015. It will cost the city $13,898.

41:34
The water treatment plant RFP was only "anticipated" to be issued on March 3rd and proposals from consults would be due on March 25th. Then they are looking to have those proposals reviewed by Dept heads and give a recommendation back to the council on April 6th.

Also they mentioned that they had gone through a couple comments from the MN Dept of Healths comments on some of the pilot studies. They mention there was some "biological issues" the Dept of Health had on whatever water treatment plant that was decided upon Mainly revolving around the heavy iron and manganese removal process. The "biological issues" were not questioned on camera.

42:59
The Public Works has also found that there are two wells (3 and 5) that they have found that have NO recording of maintenance being preformed on them, ever. Maintenance should be preformed every seven years. They assume its most likely 4 years past dues its inspection. Which mean Lisa would have been on the council in 2010 when this maintenance should have been preformed. One of the wells is assumed to be almost 15 years old. Well 5 is a priority to have fixed based on some "findings" by public works. Those "findings" were not mentioned in the meeting.  When they plan on taking care of this problem (hopefully in May) the are going to ask the City of Mound if they can hook up to their water temporarily that will last about a month. This will cost the city an unknown amount of money. The well maintenance RFPs are scheduled to be seen on March 16th.

Acting city engineer updates the mayor on two Minnetrista wells that have NO RECORD of ever being maintenanced. To sum it up the w

To learn more about the Wellhead Protection Plan go here:
http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/water/swp/whp/#info