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The Public Works/Public Utilities Committee of the City of Delaware, Ohio, met on November 3, 2026, at 6:00 PM. The committee received updates on solid waste operations, refuse code and commercial rate revisions, US-23 corridor plans, summer water usage under new rates, and the water service line inventory. Several items were voted upon and forwarded to City Council.
Both require perpetual monitoring. This meeting has been transcribed and summarized. We do the sampling and analysis and reporting that we've used. Harding talk about um his new, he's the one that essentially introduced the automated vehicles um with the city and was at the forefront of that. And um can you talk a bit about what that means to consider our collection operation and I think if you're interested in any of the power collection, but if we move to automated it is different, I think it'd be great to hear from the guy who's in charge. Thank you, Bill. Um chair members. Um I um I guess I'd like to start out by saying that I started with City Flynn one years ago, and I actually uh started on the cerebral state. So that's where my roots are and when I started. Um I was uh on the side of the uh I picked up trash with the semi-automated uh load all, which was still kind of an advanced technology. So essentially I would hop off the truck, go grab the trash can bring it to the truck, and have a truck do the part. Still utilize that that technology today, but um, I'll say that um we also still have our trucks as well for your selection treaty on out. Um those things are still utilized, but we are um utilizing technology to uh I would say we're pretty much on the forefront. We're looking at all the new technologies coming out, it's gonna be more efficient. Over the last five, six years, I'd say we've um migrated over to uh the majority of our fleet now being fully uh the refuse industry is one of the most um uh dangerous jobs uh in the United States. And so this is really this meeting is being transcribed and summarized. Um so we're very excited about that. We're also able to um uh increase our efficiencies with automated trucks. So with uh the old style truck, you're looking at five to six hundred stops per driver per truck per day. So now we're upwards of eight hundred to a thousand per truck uh per truck per day. And so that's really increased our efficiency. It's made us uh be able to um handle the uh increased growth that we've had within the community and continued uh growth in the community. I'd be happy to talk about that more if you have more questions or any of the other services we provide. Um just let me know what you'd like to know. Thank you for that. I had a question regarding the arm, the robotic arm. Yeah, um, obviously you know, residents may overload uh their toters. Um is that affect the operation of the arm? Do they often break? And what's that look like for the repair costs and efficiency for the trucks? No, great question. So um those arms, our drivers um uh they're trained to grease those arms every single day.