Operations Group
Frank Shewmaker | Operations Manager | 618-624-4500 Ext.3 |
Jason Helldoerfer | Assistant Operations Manager | Fax: 618-624-4534 |
Dan Bowman | Streets, Fleet, and Facilities Manager | |
Riley Weaver | Facilities Maintenance | |
Ben Brendel | Facilities Maintenance | |
Joe Rushing | Water Division Foreman | |
Tim Berkel | Sewer Division Foreman | |
Mark Anderson | Street Division Foreman | |
Justin Renner | WWTP Division Foreman |
Staff Functions:
General:
- Provide day to day management of the operations activities involving City infrastructure. Collect and disseminate information associated with daily operations.
Customer Service:
- Answer phone calls for customer service.
- Provide maintenance staff to attend to the requests in water, sewer and street divisions.
- File and track work order requests.
- Install citywide holiday decorations, flags and banners.
- Locate underground water main lines and sewer main lines upon request to prevent system disruption when excavating activities occur.
- Maintain records of service for future reference.
Water System:
- Provide preventive maintenance for water system, including flushing fire hydrants and exercising valves.
- Repair water system including meters, valves, fire hydrants, pump stations, storage tanks and broken water mains.
- Install service taps and meters, read service meters, activate/deactivate service, and perform leak checks.
- Read system-monitoring meters, extract samples and perform tests to assure water quality.
- Provide data on system operating characteristics to aid in future planning.
Wastewater System:
- Operate and maintain equipment at the Wastewater Treatment Facility (WWTF), including pumps, motors, mechanical systems and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) computer system.
- Maintain general WWTF site including mowing, cleaning aquatic plant harvesting, access roads and buildings.
- Extract samples, perform tests and file reports to assure WWTF is operating properly and within permit requirements.
- Inspect service tap connections to collection system.
- Provide preventive maintenance for collection system including tree root removal, grease and debris cleaning, grease trap and oil separator monitoring, sewer line video inspection, and routine inspection of pump stations.
- Repair collection system including sewer mains, manholes, and pump stations.
- Provide emergency services beyond normal working hours to WWTF and collection system when power outages and other unexpected service interruptions occur.
- Provide data on all system-operating characteristics to aid in future planning.
Street and Stormwater Systems:
- Provide preventive maintenance including culvert and storm sewer cleaning, ditching, roadside grass maintenance, pavement seal coating and crack sealing and roadway sweeping.
- Provide repair services for roadway components including culverts and storm sewer pipe, storm sewer inlets, curb replacement and pavement patching.
- Provide additional services including tree removal from city owned right of way, storm damage debris cleanup from City streets, and snow and ice control services.
- Install and maintain traffic signs, street signs and pavement markings.