(Spirit Lake)– The Dickinson county board of supervisors Tuesday were confronted with a problem with the heating system at the Oak Haven Care Facility the county owns south of Spirit Lake.
The facility’s custodian told the supervisors a mud-like compound is clogging up the boiler’s heat exchanger, which could lead to a catastrophic shutdown.
There’s also a problem with a lack of combustion air getting into the boiler room. That recently caused a problem with a high amount of carbon monoxide getting into the care facility.
The custodian told the supervisors slightly more than 1,400-dollars in band-aid repairs are needed just to get the boiler through this heating season. He’s recommending a new system be installed during the summer. Otherwise, residents in the facility would have to be moved out two to three months while the work is being done. The supervisors opted to go along with the 1,400-dollars in temporary repairs and to proceed in getting plans and specifications drawn up for a new heating system at a cost not to exceed six thousand dollars.
The supervisors also Tuesday heard plans for a wetland restoration project just south of the Kettleson-Hogsback area; and supervisors Wayne Northey and Paul Johnson said they want to meet with representatives of the city of Spirit Lake to see if recent reports of the parking lot west of the State Bank being for sale are true. Johnson and Northey say they’re very concerned if that’s the case.
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