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Engines, Pumps, Motors, and More!

Keeping a home well maintained can be a huge chore. Just imagine what goes into maintaining all the mechanical, electrical, structural and electronic components of three separate systems for water, wastewater, and recycled water spread over 122-square miles.

What it takes is a broad range of abilities and depth of knowledge. And, Las Virgenes Municipal Water District’s maintenance team encompasses both. With combined professional experience of more than 200 years, this 14-member team includes mechanics, electricians, and multi-skilled technicians.

Lots of variety

On any given day, someone from the maintenance team might be climbing into a 12-foot-deep vault, or responding to a sewer overflow, or replacing a 4160-volt breaker, or re-building a 600 horse-power pump, or changing out light-bulbs at a district office. It’s all part of handling preventative maintenance, service requests and emergency interruptions at LVMWD’s pump stations, sewage lift stations, headquarters and operations buildings, Tapia Water Reclamation Facility, Westlake Filtration Plant, and Rancho Composting Facility, not to mention the fleet of trucks, cars, heavy equipment, and portable machinery.



Fleet of trucks used by the maintenance team.

In the words of Bob Embser, team supervisor, "Our aim is to provide a timely response to all calls with the same fervor, no matter if it’s changing a light bulb or attending to a broken agitator."

Centralized maintenance

Smooth, efficient teamwork enables this group to achieve their goal by collaborating with each other and other district teams who also have facility and operational responsibilities. Maintenance team members are trained on all three LVMWD systems and every truck is equipped to handle all types of work. This means greater skills for each team member and it ensures easier backup.

Teamwork

Working on so many different types of equipment in so many environments, team members often can’t fall back on a textbook solution. That’s when the team process "kicks in" full force. Team members get together to creatively problem-solve, living up to their Mission Statement, to use "a teamwork approach, providing safe and reliable repairs and maintenance at all district facilities."









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