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April 2010

As part of the Prospect Area Projects, an additional 18,000 linear feet of force main will direct flow to the Hite Creek WQTC.

Moving ahead with ...... Prospect Area Projects design stage

In order to comply with the Amended Consent Decree, MSD is implementing the design for the Prospect Area Projects to eliminate five existing water quality treatment centers (WQTCs) in the city of Prospect. They must be finished by December 31, 2015.

Recently, the Harrods Creek/Prospect Area Study was completed. It evaluated the most feasible options for satisfying the project goal. Five project segments have been identified, with a total value of approximately $20 million in construction costs. MSD will request design recommendations for these facilities from eight consulting engineering firms.

Individual design agreements will be executed as follows. Their primary functions are described below:

lFirst and second phases of the Harrods Creek Interceptor and Force Main, with Tetra Tech Engineering ($150,000)—Incorporate two force main segments and upgrade the existing design plans. The interceptors will convey flow that is rerouted from the Hunting Creek South and Timberlake WQTCs to the new Harrods Creek Pump Station (HCPS).

lShadow Wood WTP Elimination, with BA Engineering ($70,000)—Design a gravity sewer for redirecting flow from the Shadow Wood WQTC to the new HCPS.

lHarrods Creek Pump Station, with Heritage Engineering ($800,000)—Design the new regional pumping station and part of the force main, including all electrical, mechanical, site and structural engineering.

lThird phase of the Harrods Creek Force Main, with Jacobi, Toombs and Lanz ($500,000)— Design about 18,000 linear feet of force main along Harrods Creek, which will direct flow to the Hite Creek WQTC.

lHunting Creek North Pump Station, with GRW Engineers ($200,000)—Design a new pumping station and force main for diverting flow from the existing Hunting Creek North WQTC to the existing River Road Interceptor and to eliminate the treatment plant.

lEnvironmental Services, with Redwing Environmental Consultants ($60,000)—Furnish Environmental Consulting Services for the whole project area and all design firms that are drawing up construction plans. This role includes tasks related to wetlands; threatened and endangered species; and stream and floodplain permits for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Kentucky Division of Water.

lSurvey Services, with Dunaway Engineering ($80,000)—Offer survey services for all design firms that are preparing construction plans, which includes surveying for easements, location of utilities and plan development.

lEnvironmental Site Assessments, with Third Rock ($50,000)—Provide first- and second-phase environmental assessments of properties that are directly affected by the Prospect Area Projects.

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April 8MSD Retiree Club Luncheon11 a.m.-2 p.m., Masterson’s Restaurant

April 12MSD Board Meeting10 a.m., 700 West Liberty Street

April 26MSD Board Meeting10 a.m., 700 West Liberty Street

MSD MilestonesWelcome to MSD:Nathan Capps, Utility TraineeSean Craig, I&FP EngineerJoshua Dickerson, I&FP EngineerKaren Knox, Purchasing AssistantGwen Pugh, Utility TraineeRyan Satram, Utility TraineeMarcus Sparks, Utility Trainee

Congratulations on your promotion:Barry Bivin, Assistant Telespection SupervisorChris Bullock, Utility Worker IIRebecca Greenwell, Benefits AdministratorSteven Sarver, Process Tech TraineeTroy Smith, Stormwater Drainage Supervisor

Happy service anniversary: 25 years Dan Sammons

20 years Wade Drane William Mullins

15 years Sharlie Khan

10 years Connie Rhodes

5 years Kenneth Alford Patricia Capito Andre Reese Michael Slavey

Just in case, just in time

Making it a high priority to safeguard our data and IT infrastructure All MSD business computing technology is located in the data center of the Main Office. MSD is establishing a disaster recovery (DR) site at its Cedar Creek Water Quality Treatment Center (CCWQTC). This DR site is necessary to meet the demands that MSD divisions and the Consent Decree are

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placing on information technology (IT) systems.

A DR site constitutes a secondary data center, which will house systems and data to allow the continuity of crucial business functions if a disruptive situation occurs and compromises the Main Office computer facilities. On March 8, the MSD Board allotted $80,093 to procure—from the Climate Conditioning Company—an uninterruptible power supply and cooling equipment for creating a self-sufficient data center in the CCWQTC administration building.

The data center at the Main Office houses all MSD business computing technology. A secondary data center, or disaster recovery site, is being developed at Cedar Creek WQTC.

Planting more treesDuring the next decade, MSD expects to spend more

than $1 million for planting trees as part of its goal to decrease sewer overflows and to reduce levels of stormwater runoff in our community. Trees hold back water by catching rain on branches and leaves until evaporation takes place. They soak up moisture from the soil and make the ground more absorbent by spreading out their roots.

According to the United States Forest Service, one medium-sized tree is able to catch as much as 2,380 gallons of rain annually. It is estimated that a mature tree’s canopy can prevent 800 gallons of runoff per year.

This tree program will cut the cost of building more conventional “grey” solutions like conveyance pipes, storage tanks and treatment plants. In addition, the project will reduce the overflows in Louisville Metro’s combined sanitary and stormwater system, mainly inside the area bounded by the Watterson Expressway. Trees will not be planted within 20 feet of any sewer line, under overhead power lines or over other utility lines.

This will be one of the community’s largest tree-planting initiatives since its 1974 tornado-recovery effort. MSD staff is in contact with neighborhood associations; civic and nonprofit groups; nurseries; tree farms; and Louisville Metro government agencies to ensure that the correct tree species and size are planted in locations where trees can survive best. Check the MSD Web site, www.msdlouky.org, for more information.

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“As Program Chairwoman for the

Audubon Park Garden Club, I arranged

for Phyllis Croce to present a program

about rain gardens. She is one of the

best speakers whom we have ever had.

A Power Point presentation inspired

our members. As a result, we hope

to conduct a civic project for joining

this effort to alleviate excess runoff and

reduce watering requirements. Thanks

belong to MSD for having the foresight

to sponsor such a great rain-garden

program for creative conservation.”

—Margaret Fife Tanguay

“I am elated concerning the service

that we received at my 86-year-old

grandmother’s residence. Robin

Ferrell is an exemplary employee,

who exhibited the highest

professionalism, and went way above

and beyond the call of duty to make

sure that we were taken care of

properly. I cannot say enough about

his service.”

—Robert Shy

“I am extremely pleased about the

way in which my request was handled.

John Yarbrough was very pleasant

while he dredged the drainage at

Seventh and Liberty streets and looked

for my iPhone. He found the phone

within a few minutes and wrapped it

up for me to take home. I hope that it

will dry out and be useful as it is. Even

if it is not, his retrieval of my iPhone will

make its replacement much easier.”

—Geri Anderson

Customers First

Receiving recognition for obtaining Kentucky

wastewater licenses

Victor Dwyer,

Kevin Thompson and

Theresa Vest have earned

Class 2 licenses,

and Ken Jones has attained

a Class 3 license from the

Commonwealth of Kentucky

for completing two years

of acceptable operation

of a wastewater treatment plant.

Go green!The market for Louisville Green—an environmentally smart fertilizer composed of organic, nutrient-rich and highly treated biosolids that are left over after municipal wastewater treatment—keeps expanding. More than 50 percent of the Louisville Green pellets have been

distributed to local (Kentucky) agriculture. Most of the remaining Louisville Green has gone to out-of-state agriculture, i.e., Indiana, Tennessee and Ohio, among many others.

Almost 26,000 dry tons of Louisville Green were produced and distributed for beneficial reuse in 2009. No marketable pellets were sent to the landfill, thereby helping the environment.

Several time-sensitive tests are conducted on the product every day. In fact, much more sampling and analysis are performed than regulators require. It helps us feel confident that all the product released for land application exceeds Environmental Protection Agency criteria and meets customer expectations.

Enhancing the MIDAS touch

MSD began employing the Hansen Software in 1986, and has been continuously upgrading and expanding the system to improve functionality. City and County agencies began using the software in November 2002 as part of the Metro Information, Development and Asset System (MIDAS). This MIDAS software now is being utilized by nearly 1,100 MSD and Louisville Metro users.

MIDAS is applicable for numerous functions: from workers in MSD sewer-inspection field trucks to contractors needing electrical permits for building houses. System access can be accomplished via the Web, on an office desktop computer or through remote laptops over air cards in the field. As a further example, the system generates Project Waterway Improvements Now (Project WIN) e-mail notifications.

The software that is in use, however, now is “old technology”; it is very difficult to maintain integrations with other systems like the Louisville/Jefferson County Information Consortium (LOJIC) and our document-management system (eB). The vendor no longer supports

Hansen Version 7 because of its update to Version 8.

MSD/Metro employees recently have negotiated a project for upgrading the software and migrating data from Hansen V7 to Hansen V8, which involves more than 1,300 individual tasks that the vendor and MSD/Metro personnel will manage for 15 to 18 months. MSD’s Board in March allocated $2.29 million for professional, license and maintenance agreements with Hansen Information Technologies and Infor Global Solutions for the Hansen V7 to Hansen V8 Migration Project.

A sewer-flow monitor stationed at combined sewer overflow (CSO) 182 is examined, and data is recorded in the field.

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Complying with Endangered Species Act

MSD is in the process of bid solicitation for building the new Derek R. Guthrie Water Quality Treatment Center (DRGWQTC) Wet Weather Treatment Facility. It includes the construction of screening facilities, a new influent pumping station and a rehabilitated wet weather pumping station as well as increased grit removal, a new aeration basin, six new secondary clarifiers and doubled disinfection capacity. The significant number of new structures at this existing DRGWQTC site will necessitate about 11 acres of tree removal in an Indiana bat maternity home range.

The Indiana bat, which is a federally listed endangered species, is native to a large part of the eastern United States and the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Because the required DRGWQTC clearing will be harmful to its summer habitat, MSD must pay a fee as set forth in the Indiana Bat Mitigation Guidance of 2008. This mitigation fee, which is based on a per-acre fee, contains a multiplier for the least stringent of restrictions to the tree-clearing process.

Board members recently authorized the Executive Director to execute the Indiana Bat Conservation Memorandum of Agreement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Indiana Bat Conservation Fund. It will allow MSD to be in compliance with the Endangered Species Act in the amount of $61,247.

Photo Credit: Adam Mann, Environmental Solutions and Innovations

MSD will pay a mitigation fee to offset tree removal in an area near the Guthrie WQTC, which is part of the Indiana bat summer habitat.