Pryor Municipal Utility Board discussed utility upgrades for an improvement project to Southeast Second Street.

Utility upgrades for the project on Southeast Second Street will cost $3,648. Jared Crisp of DeShazo, Tang & Associates, presented MUB with a city change order for a sanitary sewer upgrade. Crisp is the project manager for the improvements to the street and the Whitaker Park spillway, which were damaged in the May 2009 flood.

MUB is reimbursing the City of Pryor $32,531 for utility relocations. Ira M. Green Construction performed the relocations at Southeast Second and Hogan Streets for the spillway project.

Mayor Jimmy Tramel reported the City of Pryor is researching

several stormwater management programs. Tramel said such a program could bring lower the citizens’ insurance rates and benefit the city’s floodplain management.

The wastewater treatment plant is still being operated manually, though General Manager Gary Pruett said the plant is no longer manned 24 hours a day. Ray Murray, MUB engineer, said the old technology mixed with new software is causing “a speed bump,” but he believes the Wonderware Software is still workable. Murray hopes to see the main computer up and running soon at the treatment plant.

MUB gas crews lack 100 feet of gas line to replace on Southeast Second Street. Following the replacement they will make some tie-ins and transfer services. The gas crew has been working to replace the 2-inch gas line between Locke and Harris Streets from Park to Southeast Second, plus one block on Southeast Second.

MUB put in 800 feet of gas line to service Pryor High School. The crews made four new gas taps at the Summerfield Addition.

Water and sewer crews completed moving water taps in the 100 block of North Coo-Y-Yah. The crews are replacing a 4-inch cast iron water line with 6-inch PVC on North Coo-Y-Yah, from Graham Avenue to Northeast Fourth. Another project continues on South Veyda, where crews are replacing a 2-inch steel water line with 8-inch PVC.

A new water tap was made at 919 Southwest First for a new auto repair shop. Crews have been installing tin at the warehouse.

Crews replaced a sewer tap at 24 S. Taylor and put in two new taps at 2791 and 2771 Kentucky Ave. Crews are rodding sewer lines and using the camera in the 300 block of Southwest Graham Court.

MUB electric workers set a service pole and ran a three-phase service to 919 SW First for the new auto repair shop.

The electric crew worked on a pump at the treatment plant and replaced some old fixtures with new high pressure sodium fixtures around the basins. The crews replaced some bulbs on Highway 69 and the bulbs in the pedestrian signs on all the intersections.