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West Danby Water District Advisory Board
Meeting Minutes January 5, 2022
Meeting called to order at 17:04
In attendance:
advisor committee members Skip Fairchild, Carl Seamon, Marrell Cortright, Marie Monroe and Ben Coakley
Code enforcement officer Steve Cortright
Town super Joel Gagnon
Operators ScottWendt and Tod Sukontarak
Privilege of the Floor
Marie is interested in learning more about the Emergency Plan SOPs. Marrell is working on them and Marie
will help
Joel contacted Mike Allinger to see if he and the Newfield water operators would be willing to meet with Tod
and or Scott to discuss mutual aid options for when Tod is gone on vacation. He also mentioned the need to
elect a chair for the committee at this meeting.
Operator ’s Report
Manganese and Iron samples have been taken to try to determine the cause of our brown water complaints.
This was done at the recommendation of Dylan Thiessen, an engineer suggested by Candace Balmer.
The 1st leak detection session of the north end of the system from the fire station was done in December. No
leaks were found but there are other issues we need to address before we do another session. We need to pump
the pit at the end of Sylvan Lane, we need to dig out the fire hydrant valve at Maple Ave, and the valve cover
on the line heading south on Brown Road and the intersection of Brown and Station has to be replaced. It
broke trying to remove it to listen for leaks on the valve.
We have to copy our As Built drawings so that the operators can locate pipes precisely in the district for dig
safe requests as well as valve locations and leak detection.
Scott is now officially the primary operator, if she hasn’t already, Laura will make the payroll change.
97 Station Road will be an issue if freeze protection has not been done. Tod texted Brandon Whyte to remind
him and got no response.
25 Station Road even with help of the leak detection specialist Tod was unable to locate the curb box. It
appears to be under the concrete driveway.
Eric Mastroberti would like to meet with Scott and me to discuss becoming an operator. There are significant
challenges to it in terms of scheduling and availability
What is the status of the Badger Beacon software? Tod will call Chrs Schmitz tomorrow.
The last of the 4 PFAS samples for this year have been taken. We don’t need another for 3 years.
Old Business
Badger Beacon- Tod will call Chris Schmitz
New Business
Need new chairperson- Skip nominated Ben, Marrell seconded, all voted in favor
Emergency Plan- Marrell is waiting for outline from Candace that Tod was going to send her. Tod will email it
to Steve
Job description for the operator position- Skip is working on it and will take it to Joel
Vouchers
Yaw’s $745 included $695 for final PFAS sample and $50 monthly bacteriological sample
Postage $55
Beyond Boundaries leak detection services $1000 (first of three board approved $1000 expenditures)
Agway $55.16
unanimously approved
Meeting adjourned 17:37