Week 31, Part 1- Operations Building

The week between Christmas and New Year’s saw the roof structure come together at the Operations building. A two-man crew installed fascia while the truss hardware was installed from the inside. Contractors Northwest performed all of this work-








We had some nice clouds mid-week-



Then the plywood arrived for decking over the trusses-





That took a couple days including pauses to sweep off fresh snow-



Here’s the inside of Operations as the decking was near completion, looking at the east end towards the static screens, known as the “headworks”-



A close up view of one static screen on the left and the Receiving Pig Port in blue on the right. (I’ll explain the “Pig Port” concept in a later post!) The Static Screen has a hollow compartment that fills up through the black stub of pipe in the center. Once full, it spills to the back side where a diagonally mounted screen removes solids larger than about 1/8”. The screened water enters a lower compartment and exits via the down-turned pipe at the bottom and heads to the Treatment building.



Towards the end of the week the roofing contractor came on site to install the “ice shield” and roofing felt on the plywood decking. This was a half-day job-




And now Operations is ready for interior work. The metal roof is on order and will arrive in a few weeks. But we have plenty of electrical, plumbing and mechanical work to do in the meantime!