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President’s Report January 2022

Happy New Year! Welcome to 2022 – I hope it will be a good year for everyone! We ended 2021 with several storms bringing an extraordinary amount of snow to the Arnold area. I want to acknowledge the hard-working crew (Billy, Vince, and Tyler) at the water company who kept the water flowing during and…

LRPC January 2022

At year‐end 2021, it is with great pride and gratification to claim the achievement of another major BLSMWC/LRPC goal earlier in the year, the successful completion of our 32 month long USDA Infrastructure Improvement Project in January 2021. This goal was initially established at the inception of the Long Range Planning Committee (LRPC). Looking back…

General Manager’s Report January 2022

Dear Shareholders, I would like to thank the shareholders for their conservation efforts. Our usage total from 2021 was 44,110,000 gallons which is a 24% savings from the 57,671,000 gallons used in 2020. Below is a chart showing our water usage every month for the past four years.  As a reminder when you leave your…

President’s Report November 2021

Shareholders: The Board met via zoom on November 13, 2021. Discussion topics included the report from the Long Range Strategic Planning Committee (LRPC), the damage from the October storm, as well as the budget for 2022. Tom Schneider gave a thorough report for the LRPC including the 2022 rate structure, the Asset Management Plan database,…

LRPC November 2021

The LRPC primary focus over the past couple months has been (1) developing 2022 rate structure recommendations for the board; (2) finalizing asset management plan database and funding updates; (3) assisting staff in forecasting the reserves budget against liens (including capital asset replacement costs); and (4) providing staff with recommendations in planning the 2022 operating…

General Manager’s Report November 2021

Dear Shareholders, For our total usage, we saved 46% from last year at this time. That’s 2.4 million gallons of water, which is enough to fill more than 3.5 Olympic size swimming pools. We are on track to finish the year with a total of 47,000,000 gallons of water usage which would be about a…

General Manager’s Report October 2021

September Usage: We are currently in drought stage 1 of our action plan. Information regarding the drought action plan can be found at blsmwc.com. Blue Lake Springs residents used 1.8 million gallons less water than last September, which is a 32% savings. We encourage you to keep up the conservation efforts though the rest of…

LRPC October 2021

As we continue working toward firming up cost information related to potential liens against our reserves fund budget, the majority of items have been put on hold. On the emaining USDA project tasks, this is primarily due to the fact that our contractor (Mozingo) is not able to obtain price quotes or place orders on…

President’s Report September 2021

The BLSMWC Board met on Saturday, September 11 via Zoom. The highlight from the meeting included the extraordinary efforts of the Long Range Strategic Planning Committee (LRPC) led by Tom Schneider who reported on the water usage throughout 2021, the status of future work to be done, and the asset management plan. For more information,…

LRPC September 2021

There have been no significant updates over the past month to the majority of on-going LRPC focus areas. We continue to work with BLSMWC management and staff to obtain firm cost estimates on potential liabilities against our reserves budget, as well as updates to the Asset Management Plan database and fixed versus variable costs. Much…