[0:33] Good afternoon, and welcome to the Korean Water District Board of Trustees Monthly Meeting of August 19, 2026. Could we have the roll call, please?

[0:43] President? Trustee Goldter?

[0:46] President, thank you.

[0:48] Trustee Gray?

[0:49] President.

[0:50] Chair Melhorn?

[0:51] President.

[0:52] Trustee Andrews?

[0:53] President.

[0:54] Because you all join me in the pledge of allegiance, please.

[0:59] Congratulations to the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, another god, individual, with liberty and justice for all.

[1:18] Okay, so looking at the agenda that we are all good with that, we have any additions.

[1:24] No, Mr. General,

[1:27] good to go, we are all set.

[1:29] Okay, that will approve the agenda and we'll move on to approval of previous minutes.

[1:34] It was a busy month, we have five sets of minutes.

[1:40] We had a rate case public hearing, a regular monthly meeting, and three special trustee meetings.

[1:46] Any questions or comments?

[1:49] One comment, well done, mother.

[1:51] A lot of work, yes sir.

[1:52] The only thing I saw on August 5th, that one, we went into executive session at 543, I think,

[2:02] and we came out at 524.

[2:13] I'm sorry I was going to text you that Bob and I saw you okay. I saw you with the trailer hooked up, so

[2:22] Yeah, we were back in time on that. Yeah, I make a motion we accept these with that correct motion made by trusty Robinson to accept the minutes second

[2:32] Seconded by Trustee Goth, they're all in favor?

[2:34] Thank you.

[2:35] I see.

[2:35] It's all approved.

[2:41] It's all over the room.

[2:44] With that, we can move on to the President's report.

[2:48] We have the programmatic agreement for the P10ID project is ready for signing.

[2:55] Is there anybody has any comments or anything before we move forward that we need to

[3:00] sign up to move on?

[3:02] Those are deals with all the historic stuff.

[3:09] Okay, then we can move on with the signing of that.

[3:15] Is everybody knows, hopefully?

[3:18] We got the message out.

[3:19] We are on a level three water conservation in the district, and I'm hoping that people will

[3:26] understand that there's no serious matters.

[3:30] Because we have finite amount of water and we will leave policing that, warning is the first

[3:37] thing that a possible find for the second offense.

[3:41] And as for the betterment of the district, we need to conserve the water that we have

[3:45] now as we are in a drought situation.

[3:50] Let's see.

[3:52] I've got all my comments back for our meeting from the, thank you, trustees, for the comments

[3:56] from the meeting for the, with the shipyard, appreciate that.

[4:00] Now, we just need to get a meeting on the books.

[4:12] We also see interview.

[4:14] There is some excessive usage.

[4:17] There is always every year, but more so, it seems like, especially in this

[4:21] Conservation thing that we have in that, down at the in Garish Island.

[4:26] Seems like there's a lot more water, even used now than there has been.

[4:31] So, I'm hoping that, if anybody's, customers are watching or we've read the reports,

[4:35] Please, this is for all of us, and this is what we're trying to do to step up and help out the district with our situation with it.

[4:44] It's a diet situation. We can't make water, so we need your help, and we're trying to help out as much as possible.

[4:51] So we kind of heed to this conservation, please.

[4:57] We

[5:06] had, I say, we, Carl and Matt had a meeting this afternoon with the town planner, Jason

[5:14] Gardner,

[5:17] and just my opinion out of that meeting, it appears that the town doesn't

[5:21] have a real understanding of our situation in regards to our water supply and our resources.

[5:28] We are not out to stop any development by any means at all.

[5:35] What we're saying is that you can develop, but if we can't support and we don't feel

[5:41] we can support your development or your projects with the water resources that we have,

[5:46] we have to say no.

[5:48] And that's just us, that's the water industry.

[5:50] That doesn't mean you don't have alternate resources or alternate options to dig a well.

[5:56] Okay, so I want that to be clear that we are not against development as has never been our stand.

[6:04] We are just trying to be very conscientious of our water supply and doing the best we can to conserve it.

[6:12] So I'm hoping that we will have a meeting of schedule with the town and the planning board and we will be discussing that.

[6:19] I'm hoping that people will ask the questions as to what, what are we doing and why are we doing it?

[6:25] Because this seems to be a lot of speculation out there.

[6:28] There's a lot of conversations going on to people.

[6:30] Don't really understand what the water district is doing,

[6:34] what we're doing in conjunction with the shipyard,

[6:38] what we're doing in conjunction with development in the town.

[6:42] So I'm hoping that people will ask the questions.

[6:45] We'll attend these meetings that they have.

[6:46] We'll work shops so that we can answer those questions and put a lot of them.

[6:51] enormous to bed. This is, you know, we've been trying to be as good as we can in conservative,

[6:59] but we are at that point and the superintendent feels that this is a definite, this mandatory

[7:04] level three conservation is in necessity. And so if you have any questions as to why,

[7:11] have any questions about our water resources, our supplies? How we judge this? How we make those

[7:17] terminations, please ask those questions, attend meetings, contact somebody from the water

[7:22] district.

[7:25] That's it.

[7:26] Thank you.

[7:28] like the voice therapy in on it.

[7:33] Okay, I think that's all I have. That we can move on to staff reports,

[7:42] Trevor.

[7:47] Good evening. July was a busy month for the district, resulting in tighter operating activity than previous months.

[7:56] The district generated approximately 299,000 in operating revenue while recording approximately $450,000 in operating expenses.

[8:05] year-to-day operating revenue of 2.55 million with an approximate 2.52 million in

[8:14] expenses, which is 55 percent of the annual budget. Take that number, including

[8:21] interest, leases and other miscellaneous income, the total revenue is approximately 2.66

[8:26] million, or 57 percent of the annual budget. Our residential and commercial

[8:32] The revenues still remain very strong, both running approximately 4% above the same period

[8:37] last year, and the primary revenue pressure continues to be government sales, which are approximately

[8:42] 9% below last year.

[8:45] The district's capital program continues to be a significant component of the overall cash activity

[8:52] year to date.

[8:52] Construction and progress expenditures are approximately $2 million.

[8:56] dollars, these reflect planned investments in district infrastructure rather than increasing

[9:02] in routine operating costs.

[9:04] Disbursements for the month of July, approximately 610,000 significant portion related to

[9:11] that planned capital and infrastructure work were looking at a big bill for 180,000 right

[9:16] peers work on good one and Lyndon Way for about 90,000 and a big software subscription

[9:23] and that was due this month making up more than half of that total.

[9:27] The district currently has approximately 1.6 million in cash in investments and 11.18 million

[9:34] in un-designated net worth representing an increase of 4% from the same period last year.

[9:40] Overall, July was a tighter operating month due in part to the district's ongoing capital

[9:45] and infrastructure activity.

[9:47] However, the district remains financially stable with solid residential and commercial

[9:52] revenue, strong position, and continued investment in our critical infrastructures.

[9:58] So all in all, we're looking pretty good, may anyone have any questions?

[10:02] Oh, so I was like we're doing well.

[10:04] Trevor, thank you very much.

[10:05] Thank you, Trevor.

[10:06] Thank you.

[10:12] Okay.

[10:13] Monthly operating report.

[10:17] The plan is produced a flow of 87 million, 913,000 gallons for the month of July.

[10:24] So, just to give everyone perspective when we're talking water conservation and what type of water and gallons that are produced 87 million are being produced in each month in the summer.

[10:36] So, that's a lot of water to be using in the summer and historically our high flow season is in the winter.

[10:45] So, this equates to 7,325,000 gallons more than produced in June 2026, possibly due to one

[10:56] of the large water breaks that we had over the course of this month with one of our customers.

[11:03] And that equates to 4,548,000 gallons more than was produced last July.

[11:09] there were no violations this month. Would you like me to continue? Would you please this is a

[11:16] superintendent. Okay.

[11:19] Portsmouth Naval Shipyard revenue. The revenue from Portsmouth Naval Shipyard for July

[11:24] 2026 for this month was 155,318 dollars and 80 cents. This equates to $8,044 and 40 cents

[11:35] more than last month June, and this is 36,199 and 80 cents more than last year in July.

[11:44] So there's a good example of how much more water was used just by one entity from one year

[11:51] to the next.

[11:54] Should I continue into my report?

[11:57] Yes, please. Okay. So again, since I'll kind of dive in, I'll probably dive into conservation

[12:04] in points, as you have alluded to, Mike, why are we doing this? Well, I'm about to tell you why.

[12:12] At, as of August 13, Bolter Pond is down two feet, three inches. It was only down ten inches,

[12:22] last month, so we lost almost two additional feet and Bolter Pond. But remember that our Bell Marsh

[12:29] reservoir feeds into that a little bit, and I think we have that a little bit open right now,

[12:33] And you can see that bell marsh is 10 feet, 9 and 1.5 inches down, so it came down 6 inches.

[12:41] So we're starting to bleed a little over to Bolter.

[12:44] The real thing that started to tip me off and started making us think about water conservation

[12:50] as middle pond is down 12 feet. That went down an additional 5 feet in one month.

[12:56] Wow, and folly pond is only down two feet, and that can get as low as 7 to 9 feet

[13:03] as last year, but we're holding it back, and we just started to open it up.

[13:09] So folly pond actually feeds middle pond, so for all you people at home, some of these

[13:15] numbers don't look bad, but we are going to see folly pond next month probably down in additional

[13:20] few feet by the time we start filling middle pond back up.

[13:24] So these numbers for Middle Pond and Bell Marsh Reservoir were numbers we were starting to approach and see last November and December when we've already had a few months of our high flow season and we're already here now.

[13:41] I do not see any additional rain in the forecast.

[13:44] I'm not a meteorologist. I can't predict the rain.

[13:47] But I try to look at what they show me online,

[13:50] and I look out, try to be a 10, 20-day look out,

[13:53] and I don't see much, or anything that they say is coming.

[13:58] It seems to by the time the weatherman starts to give me my three-day outlook.

[14:03] It's somehow either splits, dries up, goes around,

[14:05] catering, and doesn't doesn't ring.

[14:07] Or we get this little 15-minute hour little downpour

[14:11] that those don't amount to anything.

[14:14] I think, in just the way everyone knows at home, we're working on master plans, we're trying

[14:20] to update some of our hydraulic models in all, and as part of this, we're trying to

[14:27] make sure that we're having enough water in the ponds to be able to meet the customer

[14:34] demand right now.

[14:36] So we're looking into all those studies and trying to, you know, come up with the right

[14:41] for how the district will need to proceed in the future.

[14:46] So I just want people to know we have invested some money

[14:48] in some of these long-term approaches for the district

[14:51] and seeing these pond levels the way they are currently.

[14:56] It just made sense to start going into concept.

[15:01] Now, before we get into a high flow season and have no water to meet everybody's demand through the winter.

[15:08] There'll be more, I'll come up a back-around as I start to talk, conservation more.

[15:13] Let's service line inventory. We have been during door knockers.

[15:18] So last month, I gave you a number that we were able to reduce, where we were able to reduce from 620 down to 575 over the course of this month.

[15:26] So, again, that's, that's customers allowing us in to check their basements and not having to do the physical

[15:32] potholeing at this time.

[15:36] At the treatment plant, the contractors have been there at the treatment plant and stalling condoets and wiring.

[15:41] We've been updating our secure cyber security.

[15:44] We have new ways to access the system in a secure way, more secure than we had before.

[15:54] The other way was secure, but now we have even another way to get in where it's very secure, and everyone has their own login, and there's no longer personal devices being used to access this.

[16:14] It's been a great investment.

[16:16] Another investment, the U-Trusties were backed.

[16:20] I mean, we're talking a $160,000,

[16:23] we're investing in our cybersecurity right now.

[16:25] And all of it is starting to come to life.

[16:28] And we're pretty happy with some of the results

[16:30] that are coming out of it.

[16:32] Good to do, thanks.

[16:33] And in light of everything going on,

[16:35] we get flooded, at least once a week,

[16:37] If not multiple times a week, we're getting announcements from the drinking water programs,

[16:45] or the C-Siscivic Security wing, and just everyone trying to tell all districts, all

[16:50] water utilities, and sewer utilities to be just be vigilant about protecting your systems

[16:57] right now.

[16:58] So we were a little ahead of that curve, but very thankful that we were already making

[17:02] investment.

[17:05] We're working on an Elliott tank. The Elliott tank has a little issue going on

[17:12] with it but we're on top of it. It's having a chlorine residual problem but we're working

[17:20] on it. We've taken bacteria samples. All those samples are coming back positive. We've met

[17:24] our state samples so I don't want to alarm anyone but you're going to see I do have an additional

[17:30] quote tonight for a tank cleaning process because I think that's the only way we're going to

[17:36] get out of this and I'll explain that more as I get to it. But know that we've been talking

[17:42] to the drinking water program and inspectors keeping everyone informed of what we're doing,

[17:47] everyone is okay with our plans that we've been trying to do, so we're working through a little

[17:52] problem with one of our tanks. And it's funny because we were one way from conducting tank evaluations,

[17:59] you guys approved, where you'll be approving tonight, tank evaluations, and they're coming in Friday

[18:07] to do this work to start checking chlorine residuals at different depths of the tanks. So it was

[18:13] something I didn't, I wanted to do even before this problem reared its head, but things happen

[18:19] for mysterious ways. The timing is great. So on Friday we're going to start to learn more about our

[18:25] and then I'll speak to more of it as I get into some of the quotes for you guys to approve later.

[18:34] The water meter exchange. It seems to have slowed down a bit.

[18:38] We're hitting that little bit of the wall of the last 1500 or so customers.

[18:44] It could be not exactly right on my numbers, but we're hitting that last customers

[18:50] that I've already had their second letters, so now how do we try to reach out to these last

[18:54] folks?

[18:56] I've kind of instructed that, though, I think they were on vacation and there's some

[19:01] staff had some vacations and stuff, so I think there was a little quiet recently.

[19:05] But we're trying to give everyone a third notice out of the whole group.

[19:12] Doesn't matter where you are in town, we just want to get everyone a third notice to try to get

[19:16] another bulk of the folks to replace the meter, but we don't want to get into shutting

[19:23] people's water off, but we are at the point of needing to replace meters.

[19:30] There are some customers that are still a little reluctant and know that we're taking

[19:36] the proper steps to make sure that we're following all of the room and making sure with

[19:43] our council that we're prepared for anything that crops up.

[19:50] As of this afternoon, we have 3,799 meters in stall with eight pending appointments.

[19:57] I think that's because they're getting ready to craft that letter and do a bulk mail.

[20:02] But that equates to 69% of the project completion when we scheduled for two years.

[20:09] So we have till June, so we're a little ahead of schedule, but you know, this is, we all know

[20:13] that the end was going to be the hardest part.

[20:19] P1080.

[20:21] Plans are 100%.

[20:23] Thank you for coming to the agreement to sign the programmatic agreement.

[20:28] That is really just the historical and archaeological items that as you're excavating in the

[20:37] some sensitive areas, you would stop, halt work, write some reports about what you found,

[20:45] pass it on to the folks at Shippo, which is the State Historical Program. And it's basically

[20:51] an agreement that, I think, anyone that's near sensitive areas would have to do. It's

[20:57] the environmental review part of things. So I feel comfortable and confident that if

[21:03] like signs it, it's okay. It's really, it's kind of stating that we'd have to have archaeologists

[21:09] near the sensitive areas like going past the graveyards on Roger Road. So they'll be an archaeologist

[21:15] kind of standing there watching. And so there was just making sure that all their, you know, teas were

[21:20] crossed as you start to get into government funding and environmental reviews. We've discussed a reserve

[21:26] capacity. I've sent back comments back to the Navy. Reserve capacity is an agreement that

[21:36] shipyard wants to do with us, but I think right now you guys are waiting to hear back

[21:42] about our comments and you guys have your own concerns that we want to compile together

[21:48] and have a meeting with them. So we'll start working on that now that everyone has passed

[21:54] the concerns to the chair and we'll start working on figuring out a meeting time.

[22:00] Unfortunately, at this last sentence is they found during their PCB remediation study,

[22:08] you folks passed a $95,000 or a denim to the P-1080 contract and that was to start looking

[22:15] at PCBs in the coatings of the walls and then obviously some of the paint which was the

[22:21] interior next year. Well, you know, our consultant said, well, I thought they would have tested for that or saw that.

[22:30] When they were looking for the lead that they did on the paint, but long, long, long story short, PCBs are found in the exterior interior paint of the walls.

[22:39] And that was talking.

[22:43] The treatment plant.

[22:45] Yeah, the current treatment plant right now has PCBs in the paint, because it was before a 1975 rule that eliminated or ruled them out.

[22:55] That is the walls of the building, a walls of tanks.

[23:00] These are walls of the building and tanks.

[23:05] It's on every where that is currently the building.

[23:11] So there is red and green.

[23:12] So green is interior red is exterior, but it was found just about everywhere.

[23:19] Our consultant is starting to talk to the Navy about

[23:25] What do we do in what's the remediation and I think he's starting to talk to consultants to see what what it would take to remediate

[23:32] You know, I don't know if the thing goes into a dust and you know and to a

[23:37] Half-solution is their positive air flow. Don't know so more to come on this, but

[23:43] Yeah, that's kind of

[23:46] I'm not sure how this is going to be handled as you're trying to build a new building around something that's going to have to possibly be encapsulated

[23:57] The main is for P-1080, plans are at 100%, I believe the Navy is starting to look for proposals

[24:04] and we didn't know they were kind of ready for that.

[24:07] So our consultants are going to probably start putting out bids for a couple of the projects

[24:14] so I think it would be the gate to work and potentially the treatment plant work.

[24:20] Our consultant was waiting for the go ahead because they can't really start asking for bids if they're not going to be approved and funded by the proper channels here.

[24:32] So they were kind of waiting for this go ahead so I think we're going to start getting our contracts out there hopefully for some bids may be returned by late September, maybe awarding them in October.

[24:45] So things will be moving forward, so yeah, we'll probably have to start meeting with the Navy soon in the Navy.

[24:57] Water main replacement.

[25:00] The Fastiano Enterprise has started on Dunlia Ave.

[25:03] I think it's a little bit slower of a project.

[25:06] I think they hit ledge here and there.

[25:10] But this is a time and materials project.

[25:12] As slow as I feel they might be going, or maybe not going as fast, there's some consistent

[25:20] fee making headway each day, happy with that, and the bills aren't kind of, I don't feel

[25:26] there too reflective of, you know, Lally gagging, let's say, you know what I mean, I feel

[25:30] like they're doing work and I'm getting build for the work that's being conducted.

[25:36] The overground customers, KWD will need to inspect the water line connections for the well and district water.

[25:44] We've been doing a couple cross connections.

[25:47] And I'd just like to say if the well and the district's water connections are not completely separated,

[25:53] then some repairs will need to be made.

[25:56] That is my, hopefully if there's anyone out on the island and looking at this,

[25:59] we have looked at a couple.

[26:02] and they're absolutely not the right set up and I don't need to go into it but

[26:08] there's way too much cross-connection potential we I will be sending out a

[26:15] reminder letter and as much as people want to tell me what you're doing we are

[26:20] I need to physically see it because Danny has went to one and it was pretty

[26:25] apparent that oh we do this and we do that and we do this and we do that and I

[26:29] what so um they're and he he holds his ground and he tells him why and explains what the

[26:38] hazard is and they they get it so yeah and it it's a complete and you have to physically

[26:47] remove one to put one the other but these there's folks out there that are mixing which use

[26:53] they do because they have plumbing that's connected that is not good so we are working on

[27:01] working with the customers educating them why and Danny has done a fantastic job going out there

[27:07] and he holds his ground and he's polite and explains it to him so I want to let you know we're not

[27:12] done out there and this was a good good of you to tell us and push us Jim to make sure that we

[27:19] on top of this. I was supposed to do this more in August, or July August, so I'm slipping

[27:24] my schedule, but I want to get there definitely before everyone turns their water off and goes away

[27:30] for the season.

[27:33] So, Mordecaum, want to let you know that had another employee go after their license,

[27:42] Danny Vito has taken the test and passed his grade two drinking water distribution license.

[27:49] Oh, the staff is starting to try to find time for themselves.

[27:55] They try to go take these tests, and I think some people are getting ready to, at least

[28:00] just try it, because I keep trying to tell them, don't worry about failing, it's not

[28:05] it's not that way, I just want you to start learning and getting a depth to the questions,

[28:10] and then we'll get you passing, but just you'll try it.

[28:13] So I think everyone's willing to start doing that, it's working out.

[28:19] So water conservation, we've touched on this a little bit, but you know, the district has instituted a mandatory level three water conservation use restriction this is due to the water source levels being very low in the season due to lack of rain and due to the lack of snowpack, we're still feeling that effect I mean if you all remember we might have got a two inch storm and maybe like another two inch storm early spring, but I haven't seen anything big since that and if it's a downpour it's a quick in all that water just goes away

[28:48] Um, we require a cluster, uh, we are not requiring customers to purchase any items, but just to adhere to the outdoor water restrictions, if a customer chooses to buy low flow fixtures or they want to go out and buy, uh, uh, soaking hoses or, you know, bleeding hoses. Again, I think we're not telling you, you can't water, you just have to water on your designated days.

[29:14] Soaker hoses are the absolute best way to water your gardens and your flower beds and what have you because you're going after the roots rather than letting it evaporate as you're just broadcast spreading water.

[29:28] So we are allowing soaker hoses to work there to work the way they are because they are 60 to 80% less water.

[29:37] So, just want to let you guys know, we are allowing hand watering on your off days, and

[29:43] your soaker hose can stay going, but broadcasting is sticking to the days.

[29:50] We had a meeting with the town, and as Mike was alluding to, we had a meeting with the town

[29:56] staff as early as today, and we basically...

[30:00] We said we cannot approve new development utilizing water district water, when we are a letter to or higher.

[30:06] This is the issue that I tried to explain to the town all those town employees that came to the district last month

[30:12] that the water was a finite resource. And not sure if they took it all the heart.

[30:19] KWD's source waters are not replenishing fast enough, or on a regular schedule to support the growth of

[30:25] it, Kittery, York, that they want to keep preceding it. I'm not stopping growth. We, you just

[30:34] are, we just are able to, we can't provide water to every property right now, and we, we're

[30:40] struggling to make sure that we have it for everyone in the future. Again, I want to reiterate,

[30:45] we're not stopping growth. I felt like the meeting I had today was putting me on notice that I

[30:55] to court because, you know, I said no to a permit. I am not stopping growth. I am not asking

[31:06] the town council to put on a moratorium, but if that moratorium helps them in their staff,

[31:14] well, that's up to them. I don't want to be labeled as the guy that's stopping growth. I am,

[31:21] You can label me as the guy that's keeping our resource in check and I'm not going to just

[31:27] allow it to go wasted.

[31:31] I guess my mantra is water is a privilege.

[31:38] Water is not a right and I'm going to go way back to my, I said I was going to do it and

[31:45] I'm going to do it.

[31:46] So back when I was in college I had a professor that said something that just has stuck

[31:51] with me over. I mean, we're talking 30 years. And maybe 40 years. But 30 years ago, I was

[31:58] in a college class, and this professor says, you know what? Mark my words, water will

[32:03] be the next oil. And we were like, what do you mean by that? You see all the activity around

[32:08] oil? Water will be it. And so, in light of what's going on in the world was straight of

[32:13] her moves and everything like that, that's all about oil. Water is going to be the next commodity

[32:20] that is going to be in trouble. We are a world that is made up of 90% percent water,

[32:26] 3% of it is drinkable, and that's all the groundwater, and all the surface water.

[32:32] Think of that. That's amazing. That's amazing. We're able to support the world off a 3% really.

[32:38] So it's really water. It is no water. So I just, that was my little soapbox. I need to

[32:45] jump on and I thank you for letting me do it, but I just want to say it's a finite resource

[32:52] and we've got a protected. My last thing is rate case becomes effective September 1st. Just

[32:59] wanted to remind you all that. I don't believe public comment has come in. We're going to double

[33:05] check with our consultant on the rate case, you know, next few days here. Our loans have been

[33:10] submitted to the Bonbanks, so Trevor has been working with our Bonbanks counselor, and so we're

[33:17] in he's answered a few questions about spending the money, so those are in line, I think

[33:21] we're going to make sure that those are in line to become in our way as well, and that's my report.

[33:28] Great, thank you very much. Thank you, Matt.

[33:30] Sure. Absolutely.

[33:32] Man, I have one question. Yeah, I'm not trying to jump ahead here.

[33:35] I'm going to put it for Tang to the Elliott tank. Is the evaluation by White Paris and

[33:39] my sales include the mixing issue, if you're right now we have.

[33:43] Now, instead of that, how deep is that, mix of Nadia?

[33:47] The mixer at L.T.

[33:49] Well, when I only see it in pictures when it was dreamed,

[33:54] so it was on the bottom, and it's, I don't see any support.

[33:58] So I can only imagine that I'm guessing that it's tethered by its cable,

[34:03] and maybe there's some styrofoam.

[34:05] It's not going high, but maybe it comes off the bottom a little bit and again I think we were

[34:13] do for a cleaning just because of normal usage. I think these two big water breaks that we've

[34:20] had this year and we had some brown water. I think some of that found its way to the tank and that

[34:27] it's there's a large quantity probably sitting on the bottom I'm as you're

[34:34] going to see as you're going to approve tonight I've got some jar testing so

[34:38] that the treatment plant can maybe do a little bit more removal of that iron

[34:41] and manganese so we are again folks at home we're investing money and then we're

[34:46] also going to clean that tank to make sure it's starting fresh. In the interim I

[34:51] I think the Paddle Mixer is not really efficient.

[34:55] There was a jet nozzle mixing system all day.

[34:58] Have you heard of that?

[34:59] I have.

[35:00] So you guys have already approved a new mixer and a dive sediment removal for

[35:08] Rogers Road.

[35:10] This gentleman said that he was going to probably use the same manufacturer.

[35:15] And he's working on giving me a mixer quote.

[35:18] That is not here tonight. That's going to be in addition to, but he's coming to that site Friday to look at what I can do about reusing the electrical conduit and all that.

[35:27] So I can get a good quote. The one that you approve for Rogers Road is actually suspended about two thirds up into the thing.

[35:36] So it's going to pull and push in all these kind of it's it's going to have enough horsepower or what have you to really

[35:45] it makes that tank. And my guess is that this next one will either be, I don't want it on the ground,

[35:52] I'll have it kind of either on a pedestal so that it's, you know, high up. Okay. Great. So. Thank you, man.

[35:59] Yeah. And again, as much as this has been cumbersome, myself and staff are learning a lot about our system.

[36:10] And we're learning a lot about where the water is going and what it's doing and and

[36:15] and the some of the hydraulics and it's just going to when we get the hydraulic study back

[36:19] we're going to just completely we're probably completely understand what the heck's going on.

[36:24] So, you know, always not good to go through issues, but you learn a ton and you get a lot done.

[36:29] Yeah, true foot.

[36:32] Okay.

[36:33] Thanks again, Matt.

[36:34] Yep.

[36:35] Any other questions?

[36:35] No.

[36:36] Thank you.

[36:36] Okay.

[36:36] With that, we'll move on to any unfinished business.

[36:41] Nothing?

[36:42] Not here anything.

[36:44] We'll check that off.

[36:45] We'll move on to new business.

[36:48] We have under new business.

[36:51] I'm excuse me.

[36:52] A few motions.

[36:54] A motion to authorize a superintendent to pay a separate plus.

[36:58] $47 to dollars for the first year of webpage services.

[37:03] Yes, what this is also going to provide it is the fact that we'll have

[37:07] some mass communication capability.

[37:10] So when there's water breaks, when there's water conservation,

[37:15] if folks provide us their contact information,

[37:18] whether it's taxed or whether it's email,

[37:21] this company can shoot out alerts.

[37:24] Some folks, great.

[37:26] This company is also going to get us into-

[37:31] Our website needs to be a little bit more ADA compliant to meet some of the new laws and regulations.

[37:39] So we feel that this investment, it's $4,700 this year, and then it will be $6,000, because they gave us a discount on some of the implementation.

[37:49] They were able to kind of give us a discount. And this was actually the companies that we were talking to originally, and we just kind of looked them back up, and they were willing to still

[37:59] So I can work with us.

[38:03] Beautiful.

[38:06] Make the motion we authorize the superintendent

[38:08] to pace of it, plus $4700 for the first year of the webpage.

[38:13] Motion made by Trustee Robinson.

[38:18] Have a second.

[38:20] I have an echo.

[38:23] Out of the second by Trustee Andrews.

[38:25] All those in favor.

[38:26] Hi.

[38:28] Approved.

[38:29] Thank you.

[38:30] Okay.

[38:30] The next motion we have, we're looking for a motion to authorize the superintendent to pay right

[38:36] PS $42,200 for jar testing evaluation for the treatment plant.

[38:43] Just to give you guys a little bit about that, again, we know our treatment plant treats water

[38:50] well, and we know sometimes we have some discolored water.

[38:54] This right here is a piece of the puzzle.

[38:59] I felt like it was time to really start looking at.

[39:03] If we were going to be changing, you guys had to prove some studies

[39:07] where we were changing our limedacostics.

[39:10] Well, as they do that, I wanted to know if we change our pH adjuster,

[39:14] which is the costic.

[39:15] I want to know my peep per manganate dosages.

[39:18] I want to know how to activate a carbon doses.

[39:21] I want to try to get some more that iron and magonies out at the plant before it enters our system because we know as it enters our system

[39:28] reacts with chlorine, it comes out as brown water or it turns into black stuff on the side of the pipe and stuff, so I don't know everyone doesn't want to hear all this, but I'm just giving you it all.

[39:38] This is exactly what we're trying to manage as a water district, so if you think we're just sitting on our butts, there's a lot to managing a water system.

[39:48] So this is to conduct studies to possibly enhance our treatment

[39:54] at the treatment plant.

[39:56] Very good.

[39:57] Thank you for that, Matt.

[39:59] So I'm motion looking for a motion.

[40:02] I'll move to authorize the superintendent to pay right

[40:04] Pierce $44,200 for a jar testing evaluation

[40:07] for the treatment plant.

[40:09] Motion made by trustee Gray in the second.

[40:12] I'll second.

[40:13] Seconded by trustee Gaulter.

[40:15] All those in favor.

[40:16] Hi.

[40:18] So moved, you got it.

[40:21] The next motion is 28 to not 28 so 28 to 100.

[40:25] I'm sorry.

[40:26] So we have to leave out of the motion.

[40:28] Do you want to redo it?

[40:31] Did you just?

[40:32] No.

[40:33] That's from the next one, now.

[40:34] The next one, the next one, the next one, the next one.

[40:36] The next one, the next one.

[40:37] The next one, the next one, the next one.

[40:37] The next one, the next one.

[40:38] I've got you.

[40:39] I'm going to get you some more and more.

[40:40] Sorry.

[40:41] Thanks a lot.

[40:41] I want to give those gifts a motion. Okay, so this, this motion is for to authorize the

[40:49] superintendent to pay right P.S. $2,200 for tank evaluation and pay tie sales, tank division,

[40:58] $5,135 for support services for the same. So as I alluded to earlier, the Elliott tank decided

[41:07] to rear its head last week and we were one week away from here, but what's going to happen here is

[41:11] we're going to be taking some samples in our tank to learn about the stratification potential

[41:17] that is happening, whether it's really hot on top, cold on the bottom. What this is going

[41:22] to do is start telling us a better story about how to manage our tanks. What set points we should

[41:26] do, it's going to lead right into the hydraulic model and all of this. At heights that we want to

[41:33] keep our towers, how we can circulate them. So this would be, it's going to be a fantastic piece

[41:38] information when it's done.

[41:42] Yeah.

[41:42] Sounds outstanding.

[41:44] OK, so I'm looking for a motion.

[41:47] Motion by Trustee Robinson.

[41:49] I have a second.

[41:51] I'll second it by Trustee Andrews.

[41:55] All those in favor.

[41:56] Hi.

[41:57] Thank you very much.

[41:58] Motion goes.

[41:59] A last motion for tonight.

[42:02] A motion to authorize the superintendent to spend.

[42:07] Oh, you need to give me a money amount.

[42:08] No, I'm going to give you that right now.

[42:12] It is 21,125.

[42:17] OK, so for Elliott Tank cleaning.

[42:19] OK, so let me go to this back here.

[42:22] Motion to waterize is superintendent.

[42:24] This fend 21,125 dollars for the tank cleaning.

[42:30] Elliott Tank cleaning.

[42:31] I will make that motion.

[42:33] Who's going to do that work?

[42:34] the the tie sales tank folks that are assisting with the evaluation.

[42:42] Okay, motion made my trusty golfer, the second my trusty Robinson, all those in favor.

[42:51] Motion passes.

[42:52] We'll send it all in one place.

[42:54] Thank you.

[43:01] Okay.

[43:03] And I guess I just wanted to say

[43:04] In the future, I think, you know, we're going to be, I'm going to be faced with some stuff like this.

[43:11] The timing just worked out that the meeting was, you know, here just before all this was happening.

[43:17] I wanted to again, the boards,

[43:22] see what you guys thought.

[43:24] But if I come across things like this that I feel we need.

[43:29] And obviously, I'm going to talk to Mike every week and obviously if I call him saying,

[43:34] Hey, I just got a quote that I really need.

[43:37] And it's dealing with Owen Am and stuff for that's

[43:40] already kind of here in the district.

[43:42] And I need to, I need to, I need to might need to move quick.

[43:45] Does the board have any problem with me, you know, obviously

[43:48] conversing with my getting his overall approval, but then

[43:52] bringing it to your attention at the next meeting.

[43:55] If something were like this, like I needed to clean

[43:57] Elliott, like, and I had to wait a month for your approval,

[44:00] that would be tough.

[44:02] Not at all, man, not at all. I just wanted to see how he's doing so, and I certainly even knew long enough, and it's fine.

[44:08] I think it's some point you'll go to, you know, you go to purchase the orders that Trevor will create at some point, and then we, we approve the checks at the end of the month, I mean, now that's in the act.

[44:19] And we can't tie your hands up right now. I mean, some stuff happened, and it has to get taken care of right away.

[44:25] Yeah. Well, thank you. Obviously, anything new, anything like that, it's in front of you before the decision.

[44:29] And then we see it when the checks are cut and if we have questions, we shouldn't know the answer because you explain everything in your report.

[44:39] But if there's something that shows up, then we just ask the question.

[44:43] Well, thank you.

[44:44] Appreciate it.

[44:44] Well, that's what they say.

[44:45] Too huge.

[44:46] We can have a special.

[44:47] Yeah.

[44:48] Yeah.

[44:49] It's literally, thank you.

[44:51] Mike's not ever around, but we can have a little bit.

[44:56] Just to cheer up, you have to be served.

[44:59] Before you begin, we'll open this.

[45:00] The next meeting is September. Okay. Okay. Okay. Thank you. I say that I saw that. I'm like, well, look around. Wait a minute.

[45:09] That's a wrong report. I thought that, thank you.

[45:14] Yeah, I appreciate that.

[45:16] It's up. Okay. That is all we have at a new business. Anybody else, anything?

[45:21] No? Okay. This point in time of the meeting will open up to open discussion notices.

[45:27] notices or anybody from the public who would like to get up and speak.

[45:34] Okay, obviously, there is no one here to stand up and speak, so we will public comment

[45:39] session will be closed.

[45:42] Our next meeting will be on Wednesday, September 16th.

[45:45] Before we get there on adjourn, I'd just like to say a couple of things.

[45:50] Oh, yes, please.

[45:51] I think that the people in town need to know that the district is taking these this

[45:56] past leak with the Post-Metable Shipyard very seriously. We intend to meet with them. We intend

[46:04] to come up with a reasonable solution to this problem. From notification to finite amount of time

[46:15] they have to find and fix their leaks. They're one customer in our system. They are not the

[46:23] customer in our system, the people in town and fire protection are top priority. I think

[46:31] that has to get out there. I had dirty water just like everyone else and called poor

[46:36] Kyle, seven o'clock in the morning because I was trying to do laundry as I'm sure a lot

[46:41] of people were. So we sympathize with you. We have a high level of frustration as well

[46:47] and we intend to sit and meet with them and find some common ground.

[46:52] So I think we just have to keep that everyone in let you know what's going on.

[47:02] So it's a work in progress, but we intend to address it and not just let it go.

[47:08] And we'll get back to, I think, the our customers and let you know how we're progressing.

[47:16] Thank you.

[47:17] Thank you.

[47:19] Just add on to that.

[47:20] People please stay tuned to what our meetings, our website, our any blasts or other things

[47:28] that we may put out there and just just to point out that with Trustee Robinson's comments,

[47:37] we are doing everything we can.

[47:39] We are getting all our comments together to meet with the ship with our concerns, which

[47:46] I'm going to echo your concerns that we can't tolerate this type of leaks, and we need

[47:54] to get to the bottom of it because your customers, you shouldn't be suffering or interrupted

[48:04] by these kinds of problems.

[48:06] And our agreements will hopefully be that they will not, they'll curtail their problems and

[48:11] fix them in a timely manner as we move on.

[48:15] So I don't want to belabor the issue anymore,

[48:18] but thank you again, Carla, for your comments.

[48:20] Any other thing, Mike?

[48:21] I think we owe Melissa a thank you,

[48:23] because she took it upon herself,

[48:25] come to the district and go get water and pass it out

[48:28] while the crew and everyone else is trying

[48:31] to figure out what the problem was.

[48:33] So Melissa, thank you for trying to make an effort

[48:36] or making an effort with our customers

[48:37] who needed water.

[48:39] We appreciate you doing that.

[48:40] Absolutely, I'm in at, and I'm sorry that got overlooked.

[48:44] Melissa Carl.

[48:45] You're stood up, you know, Boston on the town, and you're allowed.

[48:49] And you did an outstanding job, and Melissa, to echo Carlos sentiments, the fact that you did, you made it, took it on your own to come down, come down, and helped out and handed out water, answered questions, and I have to say that the people that came out and got water were very understanding, sympathetic, and were very grateful for that opportunity.

[49:12] and we went and got more water as it was good out there and you put their proper messages

[49:17] else.

[49:18] And we'll see your communications with the district and the people was outstanding.

[49:24] So again, thank you very much.

[49:26] Thank you.

[49:27] One more comment for folks out there.

[49:30] Don't pay attention to social media all the time.

[49:34] If you have concerns and certainly they may be, please contact the district or I'll

[49:38] speak with Senator Matt.

[49:39] Thank you.

[49:41] Very well.

[49:41] Yeah. Very good. Yes. Okay, anyone else? Okay. With that, we'll, uh, next meeting will be on Wednesday, September 16th,

[49:55] 2,026 at 5 p.m. here at the Kidney Town Office Council Chambers. With that, I will entertain a motion to adjourn.

[50:04] Second. Second. All right. Moving in second and all is a favor. Hi.

[50:10] Thank you. Thank you everyone. Thank you. Thank you very much.

Kittery Water District

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