Our results from the bacteria testing for the system are all clear. Until next time,SGCC Board and Operations.
Water System Updates: Storm and Inspection
Two updates regarding our water system. First, the usual boil water notice. Any time the system is depressurized, due to loss of power from the storm damage, the state requires the water be tested for bacterial contamination. Samples will be
Town Office: Water, Warm and Device Charging
The town office is open for warming, water and device charging. Thanks,SGCC Board.
Thursday’s 6PM Microburst/Straight-line winds
Well, that was fun… We had a few trees down, but we didn’t see any major home damage. Some dented cars/boats and debris, but the worst part was a snapped power pole on 2A not far from our well house.
Water update: Almost normal
Thanks to all the hard work, good communications and friendly cooperation, we’re effectively back to normal! The 24hour usage numbers were within 1k gallons of a normal Sunday. I’m sure there are still slow leaks out there, but we’re able
Water Update: Friday, 12/30, 8PM
The hard work has started to pay off. We very slightly outproduced the leaks and normal demand in the last 24 hours. Tonight’s data does not include, for the full 24 hours, any repairs for today, and we know of
Water Update: Friday, Dec 30, 9:30AM
We’ve fully repressurized the system. We’ll run until we’re at critical water levels in the storage tank and then we shut down until it recharges. There’s not much else we can do until all the major breaks are discovered and
Water Update: Thursday, 7:30PM
We’re going to shut down tonight from 10PM to 8AM. The storage tank needs to refill and, as we knew would happen, the wells are starting to produce a bit less due to constant use. We can’t sustain spending $1,000
Water Update: 9PM, 12/28 Staying Up
It looks like we’ve isolated enough issues to hold through the night. Temps are in the mid 30s right now, but will fall below freezing shortly. Tomorrow will be warmer and tomorrow night will be above freezing all night. We
Water Update, Noon, 12/28
We repressurized the system this morning about 8AM. We had a delivery from Fresh Water Haulers (great people to work with) of about 4,600 gallons. We’re trying for another this afternoon. We’re still consuming more than we produce, so we’ll
Water Update: 11:30PM, not yet, but progress
Based on consumption from 10PM to 11PM and the current level of the tank, we’re still losing ground. We’ve turned off the valve sending water into the system. If we did not, the pumps would be in danger of damage
Water update: 5PM, fingers crossed
We’ve been running since 11AM this morning. At last check we were not out of the woods, but we’re getting there. We’ll take some additional consumption numbers here in a bit. Based on what we find, we may need to
Water Update: Noon, 12/27
We capped another leak this morning and began pressurizing the system at about 11AM. A single pump is holding pressure at 52psi into the lines running constantly. That’s better than yesterday. Our system pushes in cycles from 40-60psi. If the
Water Update: 4:30PM, Will be shutting down tonight.
After all the fixes so far and a few new ones during the day while we pressurized, the boosters still can’t gain on pressure or reach a shutoff point where the system alternates to the other pump to relieve it.
Water Update: Noon, 12/26
Our storage tank is about half full and the pressure tank is primed and ready. Things turned out well with our booster pumps (the pumps that provide the pressure), so that’s good news. We’d like to start the system back
Water update, 8PM: Empty…
The system has been turned off for the evening, at least. We’re empty. Our wells, running 24/7 and staying within our required blending ratio provided us 20,470 gallons. Unfortunately, our normal consumption plus all the breaks from frozen pipes caused
Post Storm Update (December 25th), Water Emergency
We restarted the water system yesterday (Saturday 24th, Christmas Eve) evening about 5PM. As usual, when the system is depressurized, we’re automatically under a boil water notice. This is a state regulation we need to comply with. We know it’s
Boil Water Notice Lifted
The notice to boil water due to depressurization of the system for installation of the new pressure pumps has been lifted. Test samples for bacterial contamination showed none. Thank you once again for your patients and understanding as we work
Water Shut Off Notice
Dear Residents, The water system is scheduled to be shut off (depressurized) at approximately 9:00am on Friday 7/22 until sometime in the afternoon for the installation of new booster pumps. This involves draining the main storage tank. Depressurizing the system
2021 Water Quality Report
We’ve posted the consumer confidence report (CCR) for our water system for 2021 under the Reports section of the site. Here’s a direct link to it: https://sgc.coop/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/2021-Consumer-Confidence-Report.pdf SGCC, Operations
Wednesday Morning, Jan 26th Update
After a bit more system downtime and a leak repair, we started gaining a bit in the out vs. in war. We’ve also been reconnected to our old well line and discontinued using the temporary above ground pipe. This morning
Sunday, Jan 23, 11PM
We’ve reached as close to bottom as we’re comfortable allowing. We’ve had to shut the system down again to recharge. A good sized leak was identified today and will be repaired tomorrow. We need all the help we can get
Saturday evening, Jan 22nd update
Though we’ve had some success with finding the break in the supply line from our #2 well and will be restarting it on Tuesday, our water break situation has continued to worsen. We’re currently pushing out 21.5k gallons and only
Tuesday, afternoon update.
We’ve turned the system back on as of 12:30PM. We also installed a new radar based storage tank monitoring system, so we finally have good eyes on our situation. The water quality is quite nasty at first. Let your cold
Tuesday morning update. We’re going back online this evening.
Thanks to heroic efforts by Rob, Jack, Paul and crew from Vermont Well and Pump company, Todd, Tyler and crew from Pillsubury Excavating and Champlin Associates, we’ll be restoring pressure this evening. Once we restore pressure, we need to keep
No water and it’s not good.
Here’s the shortest version I can give you: We likely have multiple leaks due to cold weather breaks. At the same time, we lost flow from one of our two wells. One well simply can’t provide enough water under the
Water, water everywhere…
After a successful repair on Tuesday, the physics gremlins are at it again, this time just to the left of the top of Chestnut along Hemlock. This one will be worked on this afternoon at about 1PM, and may require
Monthly Board Meeting (October)
MONTHLY BOARD MEETING ST George Community Co-op IncBoard Meeting Agenda October 18, 2021 Time: 6 PM to 8 PMLocation: Little Red School House, Barber Road Call to Order Approval of the Agenda Approval of the Minutes Reports Property Manager Finance
Special Board Meeting
St. George Community Co-opBoard Meeting AgendaAugust 30th, 2021 at 6PM Call to Order Approval of the Agenda Budget Adjournment This meeting will be held online due to illness. Please see the community bulletin board for access information. Thank you,SGCC Board
Monthly Board Meeting (August)
Monthly Board MeetingSt. George Community Co-opBoard Meeting AgendaAugust 9th, 2021 from 6PM to 8PM Call to Order Approval of the Agenda Approval of the Minutes Reports Property Manager Finance Membership Rules CDI Operations Water Storage Work Old Business Northwest Septic
Monthly Board Meeting (July)
St. George Community Co-op Board Meeting Agenda June 19th, 2021 from 6PM to 8PM Call to Order Approval of the Agenda Approval of the Minutes Reports Property Manager Finance Membership Rules CDI Operations Water Storage Work Old Business Northwest Septic
Boil Water Notice Lifted!
Ok folks, we’re all clear. Thanks,-Ops
Boil Water Notice Remains In Effect
The title says it all. More samples are being taken and tested. Chlorine levels are above average. We’ll post updates as we receive them. Thanks,Ops.
Water System Update
It has been a long day, so I’ll keep this update brief: Our main storage tank has been cleaned and our well side plumbing has been rebuilt. We activated the wells at 9PM and then began pressurizing the system. By
Water System Maintenance, Date Changed to July 9th
Our system maintenance previously scheduled for July 7th has been moved to Friday, July 9th. Part of the process is refilling the storage tank using water hauled in from another water district. The water haulers had to reschedule this service
Monthly Board Meeting (June)
Monthly Board MeetingSt. George Community Co-opBoard Meeting AgendaJune 21st, 2021 from 6PM to 8PM Call to Order Approval of the Agenda Approval of the Minutes Reports Property Manager Finance Membership Rules CDI Operations Water Storage Work Old Business Northwest Septic
Mobile Vaccine Clinic Coming to St. George
Monday, June 7th from 1:30PM to 3:00PM in the parking lot at the town center will be the site of a mobile vaccine clinic visit by the heath department. The Johnson and Johnson one shot vaccine will be offered for
Monthly Board Meeting (May)
Monthly Board MeetingSt. George Community Co-opBoard Meeting AgendaMay 17th, 2021 from 6PM to 8PM Call to Order Approval of the Agenda Approval of the Minutes Reports Property Manager Annual Inspection Finance Membership Rules CDI Operations Mid/Late June Water Storage Work
Monthly Board Meeting (April)
Monthly Board Meeting St. George Community Co-opBoard Meeting AgendaApril 19th, 2021 from 6PM to 8PM Call to Order Approval of the Agenda Approval of the Minutes Reports Property Manager Finance Membership Rules CDI Operations Old Business Northwest Septic Project New
Spring Inspection List
With spring inspection coming on or after May 1st (depending on weather), we’ve noted the rules that we will be focusing on: III. BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES 1) All homes need to be maintained in good condition, skirted, clean, neat, and
Spring Leak Hunting
We’re leak hunting again folks, and this one is likely a home. As the last hard freezing nights ended a bit over a week ago, we noticed an uptick in total water usage for the park. We’re probably looking for
Special Board Meeting: Septic Project, Annual Inspection Date
Special Board MeetingSt. George Community Co-opBoard Meeting AgendaApril 7th, 2021 at 6:30PM Call to Order Septic Project Date for the Annual Inspection Executive Session (if necessary) Adjournment To join via phone:Please see our posting on the community bulletin board for
Possible water interruption Thursday morning
We’re investigating a water service interruption on Thursday morning. It’s not a leak this time, but something is wrong with the service connection preventing flow to the home. Regardless, we may need to shut the system down for a repair.
Boil Water Notice Lifted
Our samples have been cleared of any biological contaminates due to depressurizing the system. Thanks,-Ops
Thanks for the help. Let’s lift the request for conservation.
Things are looking much better folks. We appreciate the efforts at conservation. Let’s get back to normal usage and see if our recent gains from repairs pay off.We are still under an official Boil Water notice, but we should have
Leak Repairs Underway
We’re getting started about 8:30AM. If we have to shut the system down to make the repair, we’ll be under a boil water notice, so we’ll keep it down for some hours to aid in recovery. UPDATE: We’ve had to
Water Leak Located
We’ve got a water leak on the service line to 221 Hemlock. Our repair crew will be here at 7AM tomorrow morning to get this patched up. Hopefully we’ve recovered enough water into the reservoir to handle this. Please continue
Good news.
We’ve made some adjustments that have increased output on one of our wells. We’re optimistic that this will keep us from having to truck in water. In the mean time, keep up the conservation for a couple days until the
Water System Problems, Call to Conserve
Although our equipment is improving, a combination of several issues has us at the limit. We’ve yet to identify a likely leak(s) in the system costing us a good bit of water (thousands of gallons) a day. Add to that
Main Well Pump and Controllers Replaced
As it turns out, we had more issues that initially thought. We’ve had the main well pump/motor combination replace in our #4 well, a fresh controller installed, and the controller for well #2 replaced as it indicated possible failure. This