CDM Smith TF Commissioning Meeting - 28 Aug 2025
Date: 2025 08-August 28
Initial updates, Jake Van Geffen presides:
- Update on Trickling Filter 1 performance testing
- Finishing up sample collection this week
- Data analysis from the past year and a half

- More formal analysis pending for completion of TF1
- Data digestion into SharePoint - we will talk more later
Trickling filter 5 failure analysis
- Dustin Bosh was the analyst on site
- At the moment we do not know what caused the failure
- They are identifying which parts need to be replaced.
- Components have been supported with dunnage.
Kevin Ball presides, Status of AC units, etc
- AC units
- All units have been repaired and are up and functional
- Noticed the thermostats had some programming that turned units on and off - these set points were removed. The temperature is set at 77 or 78 degrees.
- We need to make sure the disposable filters are clean.
- Air compressors:
- Replacement was taken delivery of, via a tow truck.
- Kevin had a conversation to swap out copper tubing.
- Document transfer
- Kevin sent three hard copies and a digital copy of the O & M manuals, and training videos - Olivia gave these to Mike Brower yesterday.
- Tricking filter maintenance
- Kevin says that there still is a lot of trash through the trickling filter arms - the flush doors should be opened up once a week.
- Mike says that getting scum off of the primary clarifiers will help a lot.
Julie Zhu presides
- Training
- Brentwood USB
- Video presentation video - updated version
- SK spreadsheet calculator on USB
- Time frame and target date request
- Jake: Two weeks is fine
Emerson on site, FDT's, programming of Trickling filters
- Melissa Cox
- Yep, Emerson was here
- Christopher Smith
- There were some bad electronics that need to be replaced
- This was related to the dispersion fans
- Frank Adam
- Yes, they were able to update the speed displays to show in MPR
Dispersion fan 5
- Max Foote was up there
- Plastic levers on outside of links, damper was broken
- Max Foote cannibalized from a damper that wasn't being used.
- 5B is not running currently
- C441 relay needs replaced
- 5A will be back up and running