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2020 Energy Update

Bryan Municipal Utilities Kevin M. Maynard

Director of Utilities September 11, 2019

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Bryan Municipal Utilities overview

• Non-profit, community-owned utility services provider
• Three primary services
• Water—Established 1892
• Electricity—Established 1896
• Telecommunications—Established 1998
• 48 full-time and 13 part-time employees
• 2018 revenues of approximately $26 million

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Bryan Municipal Utilities overview

• Oversight provided by five-

member Board of Public Affairs

– Bryan residents elected by local citizens to four-year, staggered terms – Approve policies, staffing, budgets, rates – Authorize utility improvements and extensions – City Council approval of annual utilities budget and debt issues required

Bryan Board of Public Affairs

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Water Utility

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Focus on distribution system improvements

• Approximately 70 miles of water distribution system mains
• Assuming 100-year service life, approximately 0.7 miles

(3,700 feet) of water mains must be replaced annually

• Eliminate four-inch water mains and four-inch fire hydrants
• Replace lead service lines within public rights-of-way
• Requires approximately $750,000 annually
• Improves service reliability
• Increases firefighting capabilities
• Helps ensure infrastructure is in place to effectively serve

existing customers and for future economic development

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Water Utility rate plan

• Water rates generate sufficient revenue to meet O&M

expenses but are not sufficient to fully fund annual capital improvement costs of approximately $1 million

• In 2018, BPA adopted first phase of five-year water rate plan
• Plan calls for water rate adjustments of approximately seven

percent (7%) annually

• Second phase of plan under review with recommendation

presented for BPA consideration this fall

• Water rates remain competitive with others in area

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Enhanced groundwater monitoring

• BMU has recorded groundwater levels since early 1950s

– Continuous water level recorders at two local test wells – Data compiled by Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources (ODNR) – Weekly data collected at well field northwest of Bryan – Water quality data collected from 48 wells across Williams County during 1980s USGS study of local groundwater resources – At present, water quality data is not regularly collected except at municipal wells

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Enhanced groundwater monitoring

• Why does it matter?

– Ohio law allows landowners “reasonable use” of groundwater unless withdrawals cause harm to others by lowering water tables or reducing artesian pressure – Data needed to demonstrate detrimental level changes – USGS and ODNR review increases credibility

– Provides baseline data for detection of contamination, allowing time to plan and implement responses

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Enhanced groundwater monitoring

• Delineate 10-year groundwater time of travel zone and

develop a monitoring well network and water quality analysis parameters designed to provide early detection

• f changes in water quality and groundwater levels
• Upgraded water level recorder at Power Plant test well

provides real-time water level data reviewed by USGS hydrologists and posted on USGS website

• https://waterdata.usgs.gov/oh/nwis/uv/

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Enhanced groundwater monitoring

• Expand groundwater

level data collection by installing a continuous groundwater level recorder at West Well Field test well

• Work with others to

expand data collection across aquifer area

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