HomeMy WebLinkAboutApr2023 PRESENTATIONPriorLakeMN.gov
An Inside Look at Public Works
CEC Presentation
April 20, 2023
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A Historically Challenging Winter
All these stats are double
what we see in a typical
winter.
Pothole, sod and mailbox
repairs will continue for
several more weeks.
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Winter Maintenance
•120 miles of roads (~ 250 lane-miles)
•229 cul-de-sacs
•65 miles of trails and sidewalks
✓Downtown –3 miles
✓Tier 1 (school routes) –12 miles
✓Tier 2 (collector streets) –41 miles
✓Tier 3 (as time and conditions allow) –9 miles
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Utility Activities in 2022
Locates for Gopher State One Call 4815
Water appointments (on/off at curb, meter install, low pressure, etc.)690
After-hours call-outs (alarms, emergency locates, water shut-offs, etc.)25
Miles of sewer main cleaned (out of 139 total miles)32
Storm drain sumps cleaned (out of 423 total sumps)180
Tons of debris swept from streets and sucked from storm drains 800*
*about 75 dump truck loads
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Water consumption by year
Year 2020 2021 2022
Demand (MG)815 922 902
Peak Day (MG)4.5 5.0 6.2
40% of annual demand is for irrigation
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Watermain failures since 2013
21 in last 15 months (orange)
76 in previous 9 years (red)
Aging infrastructure:
•16 mi of pipe > 50 years old (11%)
•47 mi of pipe > 40 years old (31%)
•10 miles of cast iron pipe
26 miles with
OCI < 50
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Parks and Recreation
•54 parks with 41 playgrounds
•26 playgrounds > 20 years old
•1700 participants in youth recreation programs
(more than doubled since 2018)
•20% more programs offered in 2022 than 2021
•Park facility rentals have increased 25%since 2019
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Parks Maintenance
•$70,000 budgeted for contracted
tree maintenance
•$15,000 budgeted for contracted
graffiti removal
•81 incidents in 2022
Here’s what we mow
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