Beverly Water Department

GENERAL • Fiscal Year ‘09 saw the start of building on the North Beverly Brook Drainage Advancements project. Approximately two, 400 feet of 48” reinforced cement pipe was set up in Tozer Street. This 1, 1000 acre area in the center of the City is the last section that required drainage improvements. Likewise, design work proceeds on supplemental draining improvements in the Chubbs Brook basin in Beverly Farms. fifty-five • The Condensation Environmental Impact Record for the Brimbal Avenue Interchange Task was completed and reviewed by both City and the Mass Highway Department. It is going to now be submitted to the Massachusetts Environmental Protection Agency for any 12-month review period before initiating the initial design. • During Fiscal year ‘09 the engineering company of Dewberry-Goodkind, Incorporation. of Boston began the preliminary type of the Reconstruction of Route 1A through the Memorial Bridge for the Memorial Middle College. A Public Conference on the progress with this project, including the street reconfiguration at Gloucester Crossing, is prepared for this Fall. • Roads being made under the FY09 Section 90 Procurement consist of Clifton Avenue, Tremont Street, Longfellow Streets, and Whittier Avenue. o Note: Part 90 money has been used to fund the Engineering Services part of the Route 1A Renovation project. DAILY PROCEDURES OF THE DEPARTMENT • Geographic Information Program o This past year all of us completed an update on the City’s Water Program. The GIS data source has been Quality Assurance/Quality Control by Drinking water Department personnel and the corrections have been designed to the “electronic” GIS database. Our GIS is now at a typical that reflects almost all sources of information-drawings and personnel knowledge. u In June 2009 we completed a “ New Look towards the GIS Web Site” with the assistance of the consultant, Applied Towns. We have now made the web page available to the public. Consequently, an individual can create a “Tax Map” at their particular convenience. The new GIS site has many extra “layers” such as attractions, recreational features which include trials, contours, organic resources, ward & precinct including polling location and 1947, 2002 and 08 aerial photography. All of us also have two numbers of password protected sub-contract sites. The first is accessible to City Personnel which allows creating abutter data. The second sub internet site has utilities to get Public Services and Engineering personnel. The general public availability of the GIS Web Site should decrease the number of requests the Engineering Department obtains for maps. um, We had expected the united states Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to concern new requirements about MS4 (Stormwater Secretions from Small City Separate Storm Sewer Systems) General Enable. The Permit was never issued in addition to April EPA recommended we had to submit a 6th-year survey based on the enable issued in May the year 2003. A major new allow requirement that 56 has been discussed simply by EPA is outfall sampling. This would be a substantial unfunded mandate. to FEMA is producing new FIRM (Flood Insurance Rate Map) maps. The maps essentially today were produced in 1986. The City provides participated in the progress of the new flood maps by supplying the 2-foot contour GIS data layer. Without this data, FEMA would have used MassGIS data that is 3-meter (9. 9 foot) contour lines. Simply by supporting our info the new FIRM roadmaps are much more accurate. The brand new maps are inside the “Comment Phase” meant for Essex County, in fact, it is expected they will be used June/July 2010. The newest maps will considerably reduce the number of Beverly buildings in the “flood zones”; however, you will see some buildings which might be currently not within a flood zone which will be in a flood area when the new roadmaps are adopted. Besides, it appears that FEMA will issue a brand new Insurance Rate Schedule if the new maps are adopted. People presently with FEMA Insurance will be grandfathered, yet new applicants will probably be subject to the new price schedule. • Digital Database o With all the importance and effectiveness of having quality info in our GIS program, FY09 has had main developments in a task that began in FY07. The Design Department has continuing to use the Ricoh 2400 that was purchased last year in scanning drawings and control files that come into the workplace. Original estimates had been around $35, 500. 00 to delegate the work required to convert ours most regularly accessed drawings to electronic formats. Currently, we have spent around $9500. 00 upon hired part-time assist to perform the same solutions. In FY09 we all scanned well over six, 000 plans and entered 5, 1000 records. We estimate that roughly 50% or higher of the work is over already. We foresee the project becoming completed for less than 20 dollars, 000, having top quality control and charging half the amount by simply performing the work in one facility. • Contractor Certification o Contractors desperate to dig within the Associated with Beverly are required to turn into licensed. Licensing of any digging contractor characters of reference, current insurance certificate paperwork, and a $150. 00 fee. Permit Issued in FY09: 37 for $5, 550. 00 • Permits o Water/Sewer/Digging 57 A primary function of the Engineering Division is to issue enables related to utility structure. In FY09, there have been 380 permits given for a total amount of $38, 500 (average: 31. a few per month or six. 3 per week). Inspections are made to make certain that the work performed was installed properly and everything materials meet the Associated with Beverly standards. Estén Ciancarelli provided these kinds of inspections under the teaching of Eric Damefris? r. For water primary installation and open fire supplies, the department runs high-pressure water checks to ensure that no water leaks develop and that the strategy is properly disinfected. Work also oversees tests on sewer Droit and drain lines, which require low-pressure air tests to ascertain that all connections were created properly. Vacuum assessment on all recently installed manholes is needed by the City of Beverly, which also needs to become inspected. A big concern that has been addressed with the way that sewer and water connections are submitted in the city. These ties will be the only way to accurately locate sewer or water providers entering a property. They are usually an essential piece of data are a very regular source that needs to be easily accessible. At this point the majority of the tie cards which have been owed to the City intended for various utility function are in hand and received on a nearly real-time basis. an Escrow With every street opening, a great assessment is made to figure out how much of an Earnest bond the service provider is required to provide. This kind of bond ensures that almost all work is done found in compliance with Metropolis Standards. This connect is returned for the contractor upon correct completion of the job, including paving the electricity trenches. Currently, you will find 23 incomplete trench openings that require end paving dating returning to 2004. The City at present holds approximately $27, 000 in provides that should be kept in the event the contractors are not going to carry out the work. Escrow gathered in FY09: $26, 000 and is for being refunded to companies • Water Require Charges For tasks that require a new drinking water service line or perhaps an upgrade in the current line, all of us charge a Drinking water Demand Charge. This kind of charge is evaluated based on the size of the water line being mounted into a building or perhaps property. It is fifty-eight representatives of the “stress” on our normal water distribution system. Charges range based on the dimensions of the line. Water Require Charges collected in FY09: $36, five-hundred • Standley Saint Compost Passes Citizens wishing to dispose of backyard waste can do this at the Standley Neighborhood Compost Facility. Goes by are sold to homeowners who wish to have a landscaping company get rid of their yard waste material. These homeowners can buy passes for $10,50. 00 per trip. Five can be purchased at any time. Standley St. Service provider Passes sold in FY09: 79 for $790. 00 Standley St Pickup Truck Passes granted in FY09: 73 • CRT Pick-up The City of Beverly provides CRT tv and computer screen curbside pickup companies through its garbage and recycling service provider (JRM). JRM accumulates CRT’s on the third Saturday of the month for residents who also pay a 20 dollars. 00 fee and so are plac.

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