The current staffing of
34 full-time employees of the Jackson Water Operations
provides service to more than 15,300, residential,
commercial, and industrial accounts. The Water
Department operation serves the city of Jackson and
portions of the surrounding townships of Blackman, Leoni,
and Summit. During the previous year the Water
Department pumped over 2.4 billion gallons of water to
approximately 50,000 individuals, fire suppression, and
industrial purposes.
The City of Jackson Water Services continues to
participate in a countywide Wellhead Protection Program
to protect our drinking water from contamination.
Watershed Delineation Study was completed. Efforts will
continue to develop a county wide Wellhead Protection
education program. To protect the City’s drinking water
well recharge areas, the Water Services Division has
received from to the State a Well Abandonment Grant.
This grant will allow the City to ensure that abandoned
wells within the City’s well recharge areas are properly
sealed to prevent contaminants reaching the aquifer
through those wells and polluting the City’s Drinking
water. In cooperation with Summit Township, the City has
hired STS Consultants to locate as many abandoned wells
as possible. For further information call (517)
788-4090.
The following contracted projects completed during the
previous year, replaced old water mains with new minimum
size 8-inch ductile iron pipe to improve water quality
and fire protection:
- Bates Street - Leroy to
Blakely (8-inch) 1994 linear feet
- East Avenue - Homewild to
Argyle (8-inch) 3331 linear feet
- Loomis Street - Ganson to
Leroy (8-inch) 660 linear feet
- Seymour Avenue - Michigan to
Ganson (8-inch) 1339 linear feet
- Washington Avenue - First to
Francis (8-inch) 2920 linear feet
- Lewis Street - Elm to Losey
(8-inch) 948 linear feet
- W Pearl Street - Blackstone to
end (8-inch) 494 linear feet
Work accomplished by
our Meter workshop:
- Two meter service workers
completed 10,128 service calls for a monthly average
of 844 service calls. Nearly all of these were made
during regular working hours and without any charge
to our customers. The meter service workers also
left hundreds of notices requesting customers to set
appointments for necessary meter work.
- Inspected, tested, and rebuilt
1,950 smaller meters for residential and commercial
use.
Water Distribution
Division
- Installed 1314 feet of new
water main
- Installed or replaced 110
water services
- Repaired 29 water main breaks
- Installed 8 new fire hydrants
- Made 172 repairs on existing
fire hydrants
- Installed or replaced 16 main
line valves
- Repaired 71 broken curb stops
- Retired 10 unused water
services
- Repaired 27 service leaks
- 488 other miscellaneous
repairs
Water Treatment Plant
Division
- Installed new inline pump and
new check valve at Brighton Street Booster Station.
- 7.5 MG ground storage tank was
drained & inspected by Dixon Engineering than placed
back in service.
- Installed fiber optic cable
between radio and SCADA system. Received new 2100N
bench top turbidimeter and new water bath incubator.
- Replace well # 5 with all new
parts, installed new chlorine leak detector at WTP.
- Asphalt drive to transfer room
at WTP.
- Minor roof repairs at WTP
completed.
- Replaced caustic soda in
chlorine scrubber.
- Passed State of Michigan lab
inspection.
- WTP personnel received
Incident Commander training.
- East lime bin was repaired,
rebuilt east lime slaker.
- Removed trees and brush so new
fence can be installed around well field.
- Installed new under electrical
service to well number 9.
- Attended Parkside job fair
talked about jobs in the water treatment field.
- Acid cleaned all 4 filters at
treatment plant.
515 Water Street
517-788-4090
Director of Water Service and Facilities: Glenn
Chinavare |
