provide for potential funding options. A full comprehensive plan that includes the current sewer surcharge and the storm water operations will be brought forward to City Council for their consideration once these studies are completed.

Operating Expenditures

The City of Windsor makes improvements and repairs annually to the complex system of underground pipes, sewers and catch basins. This requires an operating budget to not only maintain the operation of the Pollution Control plants and Pumping Stations, but also for the maintenance of the sewer system on an ongoing basis.

There are seventeen employees in the sewer maintenance area who perform sewer maintenance on the City's sewer network. The Sewer Maintenance Division has a preventative maintenance cleaning program wherein they routinely:

•  Maintain sanitary sewers
•  Clean storm sewers
•  Clean catch basins
•  Clean and grade municipal drains and roadside ditches
•  Perform sewer locates

This work is supported by the following equipment or crews:

•  4 flushers
•  1 rodder
•  1 set of sewer bucket machines
•  1 interceptor inspection crew
•  1 eel crew
•  2 sewer location/ catch basin cleaning crews

Due to volume and complexity (heavy sedimentation, roots, etc.), it takes more time to clean the City's sanitary/combined sewer network (approximately 5 years for one cleaning cycle, subject to resource availability) than it does to clean the storm water sewers. Storm water sewers which carry clear rain water are not as complicated as sanitary sewers to clean and therefore it normally takes only 3 years to complete a cycle of cleaning the City's storm water sewer network. Rodding of sewers in areas of the City known for root infiltration occurs continuously and takes approximately 2.75 years to complete one cleaning cycle.

The City has a program in place to video sewers to assess their condition. Contractors are used for this function as well as with all sewer repair and installations. Additionally, a system is in place to alert staff of upcoming forecasted rain events, which then allows them to proactively monitor the sewer system in order to address as many issues that arise as possible.

Additional operating expenditures are incurred for various other sewer-related activities, street sweeping, repayment of debt charges for the Lou Romano Water Reclamation Plant upgrade and expansion, as well as administrative and support services. The main