Around $ 250,000 per year to fight leaks, Norz is spending around $ 94 million to overhall its 75 -year water system, Trustee Andy Ronstad told the fellow elected officials on 28 February.
In a report by the Gram Board, Ronstad said the latest tests of the system have shown that 53.6 million gallons, or 12.7%of the total water use of the Norridge, are lost to the main brake and defective meter each year.
“That’s why we are trying to modernize and upgrade and continue everything,” he said. “These numbers continue to go up. We are trying, but the system is old. ,
Rontad, the chairman of the board’s water, cell phone, cell sites and aggregation committee, presented the number during its committee report. The village is spending $ 94 million over a period of 20 years.
He said, “I just wanted to bring it to everyone so that you understand when and why we are trying to keep this upgrade because we are throwing too much money under the drain, originally,” he said.
Last year, 12.7% water loss is one of the most villages and a major reason is that Noriz is currently spending $ 2.2 million to overhall and upgrade the pumping stations and reservoirs at Cumberland and Foster Avenue, Ronstad said.
Trustee Debra Budnik asked if the loss was higher than in 2022 last year.
“This is up,” Rontadt said. “Two years ago we were about 12.4%.”
Budnik asked if the repair would improve the situation.
“When everything is said and done, do we guess it to leave it or go down?” He said.
“Yes, it will go down,” Ronstad said. “It will never be zero because there is always hydrant flushing.”
Trustee Jack Balk asked if the village is still operating its leak detection program.
Rontadt said the most recent detection test was conducted within the last few weeks.
“He found four leaks this time, which is good,” he said. “They are small, but still helps all.”
Ronstad said that Noriz lost about 14,000 gallons of water in a day by those four ruts.
“We don’t know how long they were leaking, how many days,” they said. “They test and then we get leaked.”
Village Chairman Daniel Tannahosar said that Noriz tests a separate contractor twice a year each time.
“We use various contractors only to ensure that” Tannahoser said. “You think a contractor is not getting a leak, so we do it with different contractors and twice a year.”
The Cumberland station project will be completed by the end of April, Ronstad said.
“When it returns to the line, it is total reconstruction,” he said. “All new pumps, meters, everything.”
The Cumberland pumping station represents the tip of the iceberg in the overhall of the water system on a large scale. Ronstad said that the system is at a distance of 44 miles, the cost of about 2 million dollars per mile to change the cost.
Noriz has so far covered a distance of about six miles.
“We have a long way to go,” Rontadt said. “We were hoping that by the time the village is 100 years old, we have completed it. We have a 20 -year plan, which is shifting all the time. But this is the goal. ,
The project of 2024, starting on August 1, includes recurrence, recurrence and replacement of internal and underground lines of the village’s 67 -year -old water tower at an estimated cost of $ 1.1 million.
After the water tower, Norz plans to overhall the Olcot pumping station, which sits outside the village hall at the end of 2025, said Ronstad, at a cost of about $ 2.5 million.
Noriz officials said in December 2021 that the infrastructure rate to help pay for improvement in water distribution system would increase from about $ 19 to about $ 40 every two months.