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a 48 or 96 gallon container. They are helping to keep our alleys and streets cleaner and make us more efficient. Our Traffic Division applied four miles of Theram~oplastic material and 228 miles of yellow or white paint stripes to make our streets safer. We installed ar repaired 575 street Warne signs, 350 stop signs and 515 informational, regulatory or warning sigos. Twelve School and pedestrian signs were upgraded to the new standard yellow diamond grade material. Our sign shop designed and built over 500 specialty signs. We also set up for 58 special events {various runs, walks and parades) and delivered barricades for over 62 block parties. The Lighting Division maintains 3,000 street and pedestrian lights throughout the city, does quarterly inspections and changes 8,500 bulbs at traffic signals, and replaces light poles and traffic control cabinets that have been damaged in accidents. Little things do make a difference in keeping the city safe and clean. One of the great benefits of living in the city is having municipal water and sewer service rather than well and septic. Our utilities do an exceptional job and are truly an economic development asset. In 2005 the Water Works pumped over 7.2 billion gallons of water. That's 20 million gallons per day! All high quality. The water in our system exceeds every drinking water standard established by the EPA. Our groundwater has high concentrations of iron and manganese which can cause discolored water. Ten years ago this was our most critical problem but investments that we have made in filtration plants and renovations have rendered that problem almost non existent in our system. Construction and maintenance crews are responsible for 42,000 service lines, 545 miles of water lines, 5,100 fire hydrants and 7,500 amain line valves. During even the worst weather, we quickly responded to 81 water main leaks which generally occur during freeze thaw cycles when the ground shifts. l7uring the summer, over 1,100 hydrants were painted with fresh coats of red, white and blue paint. We just received IURC approval of our rates (after more than a year). This will allow us to develop two new high capacity wells, embark on a meter replacement program, add GAC filters to the South well field and complete the infrastructure for a new North well field. A-19