The Jefferson streets, water, sanitation and sewer committee met yesterday.

Waste Water Supervisor Rod Eighmy talked about the City’s lift stations.  Currently, the City has seven lift stations that act as a gravity pull for waste water to dump into the water treatment plant.

Right now, there is no monitoring system at any of the lift stations to keep track of daily usage and find out how much activity is occurring.  He said that there were two estimates, one with Alarm Agent that quoted $4,542 per lift station to have a monitoring system attached and the other one from Electric Pump quoted $2,845 per lift station.

City Administrator Mike Palmer talked about why the City needed to have these monitoring systems installed at each lift station.

“Gives us an idea of how much infiltration or how much rain water is actually getting into the system.  Didn’t have a way of monitoring that before, whatever came into the plant, that’s how much it was coming in but we don’t know where it was coming from.  This way is going to narrow it down so we can start concentrating efforts in the areas of these lift stations where there could be infiltration.”

The committee will be recommending Electric Pump’s estimate at the next City Council meeting.

A brief discussion told place in the streets department about a parking situation at the Jefferson Fieldhouse.  Right now, patrons are parking on the sidewalks and in some cases have hit the building due to inadequate parking.  Following the discussion, the committee recommended the owners put together a site plan to see if the parking situation can be changed because there may be an issue with not having adequate drainage if it is changed.

And the water department reported two water mains and two water service lines were either repaired and replaced last month.