Earlier this year, the Gas Products Division of IMUA Associate Member Mueller Company of Decatur, Illinois, in partnership with fellow IMUA
Associate Member Groebner & Associates, Inc., co-hosted the Decatur-based company’s first annual “Mueller Municipal Days.” The open house
drew gas employees from a number of Illinois municipalities, including several IMUA member-communities. In addition to a guided tour of the
company’s Decatur manufacturing plant and historical museum, the day-long event included training sessions on tapping, line-stopping and valve
changing and maintenance. Mueller Co. Regional Accounts Manager Luke Wenneker (center) said the company plans to host its 2009 event
sometime this coming spring. Among those participating in the event were (from left to right) Mike Crow, Rantoul; Jeff Schober, Pawnee; Regan
Taft, Edinburgh; Duane Low, Marshall; Wenneker; Shawn Stover, Marshall; Paul VanMeter, White Hall; Wade Farr, Groebner & Associates,
Inc.; John Harbaugh, White Hall; and Bill Rhoads, Marshall.
‘High Wire’ Job
‘High Wire’ Job: A contract employee of Michels Power of Fond DuLac, Wisconsin, roller paints a section of a 138-kv steel transmission tower
owned by the City of Naperville. The tower - one of 14 such towers which replaced 54 aging wooden poles taken down for the new city-owned
transmission line - is located along 75th Street in Naperville, between the municipality’s Meadows and Modaff substations, a distance of
approximately 1.5 miles. According to City of Naperville Director of Public Utilities Alan Poole, the city’s $3 million contract with Michels Power
includes $1.1 million for landscape, traffic control and related maintenance work. (Photo courtesy of Alan Poole, P.E. and BCEE, and Director
of Public Utilities for the City of Naperville).
