Pryor city employee promoted

Pryor Municipal Utility Board promoted an employee this month.

Bill Cowan was given the title of A-mechanic and received a raise from $18.89 per hour to $19.87. His raise is effective Oct. 29.

A substation upgrade is in progress. General manager Gary Pruett and Steve Graves, the electric foreman, met with Mike Socha last week to review the first draft for the upgrade, which was prepared by Finley Engineering.

Truck 3 of MUB’s gas crews worked on the replacement of a 2-inch gas line between North Vann and North Rowe, from Northeast First to Northeast Fifth. The crews are in the process of transferring services from the old line to the new one.

Truck 12 crew members built meter guards for the gas system, made a new tap at 1991 Graham Place and started key valve maintenance in the gas system.

Water crews are still replacing a 4-inch cast iron water line with 6-inch PVC on North Coo-Y-Yah. The water line runs from Graham to Northeast Fourth Street. The workers are adding fire plugs as they go. Crews are making bores in order to transfer services on North Coo-Y-Yah.

The water workers are replacing fire plugs and a 2-inch steel water line with 8-inch PVC on South Veyda. The crews are laying service lines and making 2-inch tie-ins.

The crews have located a leak on the 16-inch line on South Elliott Street. There is a possible leak on the 2-inch tap and the workers are waiting on a locate.

Sewer crews made a new replacement tap at 304 Lanternwick Lane. The crews had to move the tap away from trees.

The crews had to rod a sewer at 803 Jackson Street. There was a problem with the inlet pipe, making it difficult to get the rod in the sewer pipe.

The new camera van arrived last week. After the vehicle tag arrives, the crews will take it out for training.

Electric workers replaced a three-pot platform bank to a pole mounted bank at 506 S. Elliott. They moved the primary dip to a new pole that feeds the Elliott Medical Plaza. The crew also replaced a capacitor bank pole across the road at 11 Archer.

Poles were framed on Lahoma for the relocation of the fiber optics that have to be moved for the Lincoln School addition. The crew cleaned up ditches on the Helton Addition and the Lahoma Street projects.

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