Author: Cory McNeely

Summit County has partnered with other State and local groups to help treat and contain garlic mustard, a class 1b state noxious weed.  As a homeowner, you should have received a notice recently from Summit County with procedures on how to sign up for a contractor to treat the weed if it exists on your property.  If you have this noxious weed on your property, you are strongly encouraged to take advantage of this free County service.  Controlling garlic mustard is a benefit you as well as the community.  Please visit this link for more information.  Summit County Weed Division.

A water main break occurred at approximately 2pm today, March 27^th, on Springshire Drive near the intersection with Pinebrook Road.  Gorgoza Water Company crews were immediately on scene and are currently working to determine the location, cause, and extent of the leak.  Unfortunately, as of 2:45pm Gorgoza does not have an estimate of when water service to the affected homeowners will be restored.  Gorgoza is working diligently to repair the line and restore water service as soon as possible.  Please visit www.gorgozawater.com for updates to the situation as they become available.  Thank you for your patience and understanding.

The spring cleanup days have been scheduled for Saturday, May 26th through Sunday, June 3rd.  As in prior years, dumpsters will be made available to members of the Pinebrook Master Association and located in the parking lot of the Pinebrook Park.  Crews from Gorgoza Mutual Water Co. will be chipping wood brought to the park with less than a 6″ diameter trunk, so the event will be a good time to remove dead-fall and winter-kill from your property in an effort to reduce fire danger this summer.  Please be courteous with the volume of your loads, and remember you can always contact the Park City Fire District to schedule a time for their free curbside wood chipping service this summer.

Please do not dispose of ANY hazardous or bio-hazardous chemicals or waste, tires, explosives, propane bottles, paint, medicine, medical devices, syringes, etc.  THESE TYPES OF ITEMS CAN BE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TO THE CREWS MANAGING THE CLEANUP!  Construction debris is also not allowed.

Thanks for your cooperation.  Additional information will follow in a forthcoming newsletter.

The annual meeting of the homeowners for 2018 has been scheduled for Thursday, May 3rd at 7pm at the offices of Gorgoza Mutual Water Company.  Official notice along with an agenda will be sent to homeowners as the date draws closer.

For those interested, the regular April board of directors meeting has been changed to Tuesday, April 3rd at 7pm at the offices of Gorgoza Mutual Water Company.  As always, members of the Pinebrook HOA are always welcome to attend.

Thursday’s meeting is a regularly-scheduled, one-hour business meeting of the PHOA Board. The Board holds its regular meetings at the Gorgoza office, where space is limited. The Board always sets aside the first 10 or so minutes of each meeting for input from PHOA members, who are always welcome to attend. One PHOA member asked if he could use that time at the February meeting to inform the Board about his concerns regarding the proposed Woodward project, and time was set aside at Thursday’s Board meeting for that purpose. He did not ask that the Board give notice of and hold a general meeting of PHOA members, and the recent flyers and internet invitations regarding the meeting were neither authored nor distributed by the Pinebrook Homeowners Association, appearances notwithstanding. When the Board schedules general meetings for its members, it provides proper notice and arranges for a facility sufficient for those who are likely to attend.

Summit County has asked the PHOA to circulate information to its members regarding issues faced by sanitation crews as they pick up garbage and recycling during the winter.  A link to a recent interview they did with Park City TV is below:

From Gorgoza Mutual Water Company:

You may have wondered about tanker trucks you have seen entering and leaving Pinebrook.  They represent a short-term test of a possible opportunity for the Gorgoza Mutual Water Company to increase needed capital reserves without having to make a significant increase in rates.

Parts of the Gorgoza system are more than 40 years old.  The Company has recently completed a comprehensive study of its assets to identify useful lives and repair and replacement costs.  That study illuminated the need to increase the Company’s capital reserves to approximately $3,000,000 by the year 2030, a requirement that would require an immediate increase your water bills of at least $10.00 per month.

Coincidentally, Gorgoza was approached by the parent company of Mount Olympus Water about the possibility of purchasing water from Gorgoza’s spring water source to supplement their spring water production during down times for maintenance, high demand and emergencies such as the multiple hurricanes that hit the southeastern United States in 2017.

The Gorgoza Board recognized that this might be a way to fund part of our capital reserve needs.  The Board carefully reviewed our current and historic water system yields and demands, and determined that the system we have built up over years has source capacities and redundancies well in excess of current and projected needs.  In other words, Gorgoza has sufficient source capacity to sell water to Mount Olympus without compromising its ability to meet all obligations to its shareholders.

Accordingly, Gorgoza’s Board determined to authorize the sale of a limited amount of its spring water on a trial basis during the fall and winter months when our system has minimal other demands.

A few summary points:

• The sales price to the purchaser is significantly higher than what shareholders pay.
• All equipment and delivery costs are paid by the water purchaser, at no cost to the Gorgoza shareholders
• Water deliveries are restricted to daylight hours on weekdays, with no idling of the trucks while the tanks are being filled.
• All revenues from water sales will be added to Gorgoza’s capital reserve funds, offsetting needs that would otherwise have to be met by increased assessments.
• The Company’s highest obligation is to its shareholders. The arrangement with this purchaser is for the sale of surplus water, and will be curtailed or cut-off entirely if needed to protect local needs.
• In the event the purchaser wants to explore a long-term arrangement with Gorgoza after the purchaser’s current emergency passes, the Board will conduct a thorough review of the trial period operations before any further commitment is made.
• Long-term arrangements, if made, will include the purchaser paying to move the location where the trucks are loaded to a better location, likely somewhere along Pinebrook Boulevard.

Gorgoza hopes that this information will be helpful to you.  If you have further questions, please contact Shelly at 435-6497948 or via email at gmwc@gorgozawater.com.

Thank you.

Just a reminder that the annual summer party for members of the Pinebrook HOA will be this Saturday evening, August 12th, at 5pm the Pinebrook Park.  Chronic Tacos will be providing the food once again.  Please join us for a nice evening in the park!  Bring chairs or blankets, but please leave the dog(s) at home.  Thanks, and we hope to see you there!