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CITY OF LITTLE CANADA <br />RAMSEY COUNTY, MINNESOTA <br />Office of: <br />JOSEPH G. CHLEBECK, Clerk <br />515 Little Canada Road <br />Little Canada, Minn. 55117 <br />484 -2177 <br />January 22, 1985 <br />TO: <br />FROM: <br />RE: <br />CITY COUNCIL <br />ROGER GLANZER <br />THE PURCHASE OF A JETTING MACHINE <br />MAYOR <br />Raymond Hanson <br />COUNCIL <br />Michael Fahey <br />Beverly Scalze <br />Dennis Forsberg <br />Mugs Nardini <br />At last year's sewer and water budget meeting, we talked about purchasing <br />a jetting machine from the City of Maplewood for cleaning our sewer mains. <br />Maplewood has contacted me and they are going to take bids on this machine <br />the first part of February. This machine would be used for removing sand, <br />grease, tree roots, and sewer line blockages from our sewer lines. It <br />will also be used for cleaning storm sewers, culverts and opening frozen <br />culverts. A jetting machine is faster, easier and cleans more efficiently <br />than our rodding machine, which is only designed for tree roots and sewer <br />line blockages. The rodding machine was purchased in 1968 and this brand <br />of machine is no longer being made, although most rodding machines have <br />similar parts, some replacement parts may be hard to find. All cities <br />who own jetting machines, also have a rodding machine for that special <br />situation or emergency, so the City would want to keep our present <br />rodding machine also. <br />What we would be purchasing from Maplewood is a jetting machine only, <br />not the truck that it's on. From observing the jetter in operation and <br />talking to the people who have operated it over the past few years <br />regarding the operating condition of the machine, the response has been <br />that it runs as good as their new jetter. The 2800 gallon water tank that <br />sits between the cab and jetting unit does leak, but I would have the tank <br />rebuilt to about a 1200 gallon capacity. This jetter was bought new by <br />Maplewood in about 1968 -69 as trailer unit, but saw limited service. <br />It wasn't until about seven years ago they mounted it on a truck and used <br />it on a regular basis. The machine has 1800 hours on it (not accurate but <br />Maplewood feels its close). The jetter has been removed from its truck <br />and is sitting over at Truck Utilities on Highway 36. I have talked to <br />Truck Utilities about prices for putting this unit together and the <br />following prices are what we came up with; <br />* Rebuilding the water tank $ 540.00 <br />This does not include extra material that they might need. <br />* Mount tank and jetter on truck 600.00 <br />* Jetter from Maplewood 2400.00 <br />* Used 21 ton truck (1979 -80) 7000.00 <br />I may be able to find one cheaper, but I wouldn't want to <br />spend anymore. <br />*Paint jetter and truck 1000.00 <br />0410.-0 <br />11 <br />