2020 Annual Report

City of Chilliwack 38 The Operations Department is responsible for the operation and maintenance of the City's: The Operations Department maintains over 100 parks and natural areas which together make up over 400 hectares of green space. Operations also maintains over 100 km of recreational trails ranging from challenging hillside terrain, to easy and flat riverside trails. Providing water and sewer service to properties within the municipal boundaries, the Operations Department maintains and operates: • 52 sanitary pump stations • Wastewater Treatment Plant • 10 potable water production wells • 14 water booster pump stations • 19 water reservoirs • 5 drainage pumping stations • Over 750 km of water and sewer pipe systems • Parks • Trails • Sports fields • Sanitary sewer system • Potable water system • Roads • Open drainage • Storm sewer system • Dyking infrastructure • Fleet maintenance 1,750 WATER SAMPLES TESTED 1,600 REPAIRS & PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE WORK ORDERS COMPLETED 1,000 FIRE HYDRANTS DISMANTLED, SERVICED & REBUILT Operations 2020 HIGHLIGHTS 9 New Equipment • Two Peterbuilt tandem axle dump trucks replaced two aging units. • New asphalt patching truck with over three times the carrying capacity as the previous unit. 9 Open Watercourse Cleaning Program • 83,000 lineal meters of ditches/ watercourses cleaned. 9 Townsend Parking Lot Extension • 30+ stall parking lot expansion connecting Townsend West parking lot to the new Rotary services building. 9 Sewer Lift Station Wet Well Cleaning • 52 remote sanitary sewer pump stations cleaned. 9 Wastewater Treatment Plant • 750-kilowatt standby power generator and new switchgear installed to allow for operations during power outages.