During a June of 2025 Plainfield Township Board Meeting, a decision was made to change water and sewer billing from a quarterly model to a monthly model. Township officials also request that residents conserve water where possible as the township now exceeds 13 million gallons per day during peak usage while the current wells can only supply 14 million gallons. More can be found here.
The annual 2024 water quality report has been released as of May of 2025. While PFOA/PFOS are above ‘non-detect’ levels in our water supply, they remain at very low levels as shown in this report.
With the recent power surge damaging many of our units, questions have arisen as to what a home owner can do to protect themselves from brownouts and surges. While generators can address complete power outages, they do not address power surges directly. A whole home surge protector can be installed for a relatively small cost. A simple surge protector like the one below from Schneider Electric is about $170 with tax and snaps into the breaker box typically in the basement of your home within a few minutes with the help of an electrician:
In theory, it takes the hit from a power spike and saves the rest of the equipment in your house from damage. When the green light is on, it’s protecting your home. When the green light is out, it took a hit, protected your electronics and appliances and then needs to be replaced. One owner in the neighborhood just had that particular surge protector installed and will let us know how it works during the next power surge.
For now, any whole home surge protector that fits in to your breaker box should do the trick. If anyone has experience, good or bad, with one of these devices, please feel free to comment below, thanks!
Just a head’s up that all Comcast services will be interrupted this Friday, June 16th, 2023. Per Xfinity:
Bringing customers like you the ultimate internet experience is our number one priority. That’s why, in the coming days, we’ll be making improvements to the Xfinity network in your neighborhood. The goal of the work is to enhance our network to ultimately allow us to deliver multigigabit upload and download speeds. This is just one example of how our next-generation Xfinity 10G Network is evolving to get smarter, faster, and more reliable.
Our most current information has us starting work on 06/16, affecting service on Maybeck Drive NE. While we will make our best effort to stick to that date, sometimes factors beyond our control – like weather – may cause us to shift the schedule.
How this work will affect you
As our teams work to make these enhancements, you can expect service outages. This downtime will affect all of your Xfinity services, and if you are an Xfinity Voice customer, you will not be able to call 911 from your wired phone line. Please know our teams will work as efficiently as possible to limit the duration of these outages. We anticipate completing our work within the day.
Thank you for your patience
While these outages are only temporary, we know they can be frustrating. We appreciate your patience as we continue to evolve our network so you can work, stream, and play even better than ever before.
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