Doyon Utilities Celebrates Earth Day
As part of the Army’s ongoing environmen-tal initiative, the Fort Wainwright Garrison celebrated Earth Day on April 22nd . The event had a host of participants from the garrison as well as the surrounding Fair-banks community with an emphasis on com-munity outreach for environmental aware-ness and sustainability issues. Event activi-ties included educational booths, an exhibi-tion of art created from recyclable material, recycling demonstrations, recycling opportu-nities, a scavenger hunt and a cake cutting ceremony.
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Doyon Utilities was given the opportunity to
participate along with the USAG Environ-mental Office, North Haven Communities,
双语新闻Arctic Health Link, the FNSB Transporta-tion Office, ASYMCA, MAC Federal Credit
Union, K&K Recycling, Interior Alaska
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Fairbanks Rescue Mission. Jason Walker
spearheaded the efforts for Doyon Utilities and bad upon the number of visitors to the displays the program was an overwhelming success. Doyon Utilities provided a booth dedicated to promoting energy and water conrvation and overall environmental sustainability. The DU booth consisted of display boards showing how we produce energy and water for the post, handouts with conrvation tips, an explanation of our osprey nesting project, a video of the Story of Bottled Water, a coal lighting display and a terrarium building station for kids of all ages.
The big attention grabber for the display part of the booth was the coal lighting demon-stration. Doyon Utilities’ Ft. Wainwright CHPP Electrical employees created a display that compared how much coal was needed to power both an incandescent bulb and a com-pact fluorescent bulb. The compact fluores-
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showing how much would be burned to pow-er tho bulbs for 24 hours really drove the point home.
The attraction for the kids at the DU booth
was the terrariums. Children (and some
adults) were given the opportunity to make
terrariums from ud plastic water bottles. DU provided sunflower eds and potting soil
and kids were able to plant a ed and go
home with a gift that they could watch grow.
At the end of the growing ason, participants
were invited to nd pictures of their sunflow-ers to DU for inclusion in a company newslet-ter in the fall.
Tied into the terrarium station was a video called The Story of Bottled Water. This video provided detail on how the bottled water in-dustry works and how reducing consumption of bottled water coupled with responsible recycling can reduce the waste issues associ-
DU also provided a reprentative in a cake cutting ceremony where garrison and local
community leaders were given the oppor-tunity to articulate their support and commit-ment to environmental sustainability. Com-munity leaders were given the opportunity to
speak briefly and then cut a cake in a show
of solidarity and community outreach. The
overwhelming message throughout the event
was one of responsible stewardship of our
environment of which DU is a vital partici-pant.
This event was by all accounts a tremendous success and a great opportunity for DU to
participate in environmental sustainability
and community outreach. Special thanks to
DU team members Roxanne Fontana and
Trisha Madros for creating the great display boards, Diane Wallis for initiating the
handouts and providing the Story of Bottled
Water, as well as Rufus Bunch and the
CHPP electrical crew for providing the coal
lighting display. While the are the primary
employees involved in the Earth Day activi-ties, thanks also needs to be extended to all tho behind the scenes folks who organized the event and volunteered to look after the booth during the event. Without the peo-ple’s help, DU’s portion of the event would not have been as stellar a success as it turned out to be. Jason Walker with coal lighting demo.
AFTER: New Boiler Stack Photo
FWA CHPP Boiler Stack Safety Platforms
By: George Ferree, Project Manager
The Fort Wainwright Central Heat and Power Plant (FWA CHPP) contains 6 coal-fired boilers, each with its own exhaust stack. Each exhaust stack has a motor-operated “stack cover” that is open when there is a fire in the boiler and clod when the boiler is not in u. The stack covers require periodic maintenance, so a small working platform
was constructed near the top of each stack. The existing platforms proved to be too small to perform all the necessary mainte-nance activities in a safe manner. In addi-tion, each stack had a “standalone” plat-form, so when maintenance was being per-formed on multiple stacks, time, energy and safety was sacrificed climbing up and down
ladders. The Boiler Stacks Safety Platforms Project solved the problems by construct-ing a large, inter-connected platform that allows maintenance personnel to work safe-ly and access all 6 stacks without having to climb up and down multiple ladders. The accompanying diagram and photos depict the “before” and “”after” conditions.
BEFORE: Old Boiler Stack Photo
New design of Boiler Stacks at FWA CHPP
FWA Electric Meter Deployment Success
By: Brandi McCullough, IT Systems Administrator
Denali Village Pha I – 29 buildings were installed with 5 electric meters per building, totaling 147 meters, including 2 additional meters
for 2 lighting areas. Time to install all meters was 6 days.
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Taku – 56 buildings were installed with 3 electric meters per building,received是什么
totaling 168 meters. Time to install all meters was 4 days,
Doyon Utilities completed a large-scale elec-tric meter installation at Fort Wainwright and we are happy to report that the work at Denali Village Pha I and Taku is a complete suc-cess! Much of this success is directly at-tributable to the investment made by the Ar-my for the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) smart grid and DU has refined its me-ter installation process.
FWA employees installed approximately 315 meters over a 10-day period at Denali Village Pha I and Taku. The fully deployed meters are communicating with the Customer Infor-mation System (CIS), have been Quality Con-trolled (QC’d), and entered into the Geo-graphic Information System (GIS). To ensure a smooth installation, DU implemented a pro-cess to deploy electric meters that guarantees
that the meters are properly recording usage, communicating with the CIS, and are accu-rately located on GIS maps. This methodol-ogy will be ud for the installation of all meters regardless as to the number of meters installed.
Part of this process required Nicole Da-vidge, DU’s Meter Data Management Tech-nician, to strategically identify locations where the collectors, known as Shark Fins, needed to be installed within the deployment areas. Bill Sparks and Mike Foster, FWA electricians, then installed the Shark Fins and began deploying electric meters while collecting the required location information. All data is collected electronically and pro-cesd. DU utilizes a laptop to collect meter data and to properly identify GIS building
locations. At the end of each shift, the elec-trical crew docks the laptop. Dejuan Tan-ner, DU’s GIS technician, then pulls the collected data that is, in turn, verified for accuracy. After the data is validated, the data is checked into GIS and the crews con-tinue their work the following day.
Below, are the maps for the electric meter deployment at Denali Village Pha I and Taku. Blue stars indicate the electric meter has been QC’d , and verified for accurate data and location information. The red stars indicate meters that will be QC’d during the next effort, showing outside of
the Denali Village deployment. Once red meters are QC’d, they will be turned blue, indicating that they have been verified as accurate.
DU, CEI, and NLC are meeting onsite to discuss the project scope and plan design.
JBER - Camp Carroll Gas Line Replacement
By: Mack Miessner, Project Manager
In this photo, decay in a recently replaced wastewater pipe is shown.
As part of each project, Doyon Utilities
asss the impact to local surface features,
such as sidewalks, trees, landscaping, and signage.
By: Mark Rockwell, Project Manager
2011 FGA Summer Projects
Doyon Utilities received approvals to ad-vance the design and construction of veral new projects at Fort Greely. The projects have been in the planning stage for over 1 year and are now moving forward into the design pha. We have already developed budgets and schedules and have begun meet-ing with contractors who have successfully completed projects at Fort Greely for Doyon Utilitie
s in recent years. The completion dates on the projects vary from November 2011 to November 2012.
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∙ Building 130 Lift Station ∙ Refurbish Generators 4 & 5 ∙ Refurbish Well 8
∙ Replace Boiler Controls Building 101 ∙ Sewage Treatment Plant Upgrades ∙ Sludge Drying Bed Upgrades
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Upgrade Heat Distribution Piping from Manhole 8 to MH 12
The projects were identified in the utility capital plan and were prioritized bad upon health, safety, and reliability. The Fort Greely DPW and the Utilities Privatization Team worked together with Doyon Utilities to devel-op the scope and budgets for each of the pro-jects. The projects were then reviewed through
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the Defen Logistics Agency – Energy for final verification and notice-to-proceed was provided to Doyon Utilities.
Rest assured, we will continue coordinating the projects with Fort Greely DPW as they progress. If you have questions or concerns about the projects, contact Mark Rockwell, P.E. Doyon Utilities Lead Project Manager at (907) 455-1561.
During the gas meter installation work in 2009, Doyon Utilities (DU) identified addi-tional steel mains in the Camp Carroll ar-ea. The gas mains were incorrectly identi-fied on maps as being high-density polyeth-ylene (HDPE) or plastic gas mains and r-vice lines. Upon investigation, they were found to be steel lines that have been without cathodic protection since they were installed in the early 1970s.
All steel gas mains and rvice lines are re-quired to be catholically protected under 49 CFR, part 192. Non-catholically protected steel mains and rvice lines po a threat that could result in corrosion leaks. This project will replace all of the remaining unprotected steel mains and rvice lines in the Doyon Utilities gas system.
The construction start date begins June 27, 2011, ending on July 30, 2011. During the construction
period, there will be temporary, scheduled, natural gas outages, restricted to individual buildings one at a time. The building urs will be notified of schedule out-ages in advance and DU will make every effort to minimize the impact to road traffic. JBER –Camp Carroll Gas Line Replacement Plan
By: Jeremy Phillips, Safety Coordinator
Doyon Utilities Cell Phone Policy
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Physical Address:
36010 Arctic Valley Rd JBER, AK 99505
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 5469 JBER, AK 99505 Phone: 907-338-3600 Fax: 907-428-5355
Fort Wainwright
Physical Address: 3564 Neely Rd,
Fort Wainwright, AK 99703
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 35484
Fort Wainwright, AK 99703 Phone: 907-455-1571 Fax: 907-356-7690
Fort Greely
Physical Address: 611 E. 5th Street
Fort Greely, AK 99731
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 31346
Fort Greely, AK 99731 Phone: 907-869-4291
Headquarters
Physical Address:
714 Fourth Avenue, Suite 100 Fairbanks, AK 99701
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 74040
Fairbanks, AK 99707 Phone: 907-455-1500 Fax 907-455-6788multiply
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FGA Shift Engineer/Boiler Operator – Boiler Licen
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Michael Dugger
FWA CHPP Coal Handler -
Class II Boiler Licen
Scott Wharton
FGA CHPP, Shift Engineer
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Harry Weaver
Doyon Utilities Safety Coordinator would like to remind you about our cell phone policy when driving a company or privately owned vehicle. The purpo of this poli-cy is to ensure the safety
of DU employees, and to comply with appli-cable laws of the State of Alaska.
Current Alaska State Law prohibits “texting” while driving a motor vehicle and military regulation prohibits both texting and u of hand held electronic devices while driving.
DU employees, contractors/subcontractors and others operating company vehicles or employ-ees operating privately owned vehicles on company business are prohibited from text messaging, e-mail or similar forms of electron-ic communication while operating a motor vehicle unless using a hands free device that
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does not require the driver to dial a number while operating the vehicle.
In the event of an emergency where urgent
communication is required, safely move the vehicle to the right shoulder of the roadway or to a designated pull off, bring vehicle to a
complete stop, and place vehicle in park before activating one of the devices mentioned above.
DU employees are required to adhere to the policy concerning u of cell phones and similar devices while conducting company business. Plea attempt to make calls or other communication before departing on a trip or after arriving at your destination.
