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effluent? When it crosses the threshold of that dam, it ceases to be solely within the control of the State of Texas and subject to the Compact. OK, question No. 20. If it is determined that there is no excess water to sell, or if Paris enters into a contract to sell a large quantity of water to the City of Irving or anyone else, all Pat Mayse water..... Let me make a couple of general obligations: you have a wonderful source of water in Pat Mayse. And so instead of selling all your water out of Pat Mayse, I think iYs very prudent to plan for your future growth out of that Pat Mayse source. To the extent that you can develop alternate sources of water that may be marketable and give you a return because of the revenue stream, I would look to do that and try to capitalize off of those. One of the most common ways these days that cities are developing new sources of supplies is beneficial reuse of their treated effluent return flow. I know from talking with your staff today that you have 2 or 3 mgd of discharge out of your wastewater treatment plant. I know that that is situated in a place where it may be possible to combine that with any water sold to Irving out of Lake Pat Mayse. And so that would be one potential way to get revenue off of that resource. Reeves Hayter: is that water controlled by the compact? JM: no. The water you sell by contract to other parties, and they discharge after they use it, is subject to reuse by the city. Because permit wise, it's still your water. I know little of the specifics, but if Lamar Power Partners takes your water for cooling water and after use, they treat and discharge that water into a water course, and there's some economic use of that water downstream, you should go seek a bed and bank authorization to be able to reuse that water and sell it to a third party. A lot of cities are reusing their effluent and other water for landscape irrigation purposes, if you have enough golf courses and other things, so I would look to those kind of things to try to get economic benefit. But for purposes of your planning, whatever transactions you're going to do with Irving or anyone else, I would be looking to your longterm needs and your growth horizon and figure what amount of water you need to reserve for yourself out of Pat Mayse Lake, and when you're trying to determine what's truly surplus, I would look for some amount of reservation of that water. You can sell some of it to Irving with some right to take it back, or sell it to somebody else with the right to take it back, but I would want to go through some sort of engineering analysis, where you knew, here's what Paris' current water demands are, here's what they are projected to be in 2060, and put something in in terms of what you think you're going to need, because, you know, iYs a source thaYs virtually paid for. And so you want to use water as an economic resource to generate revenue for the city and keep costs down, but at the same time you want to be able to take advantage of the resources that you have developed. So just in the planning process, try to look down the road as best you can as to what your needs are going to be, and take those into account. I tend to look at water as a purely economic issue. Water has a lot of value, and it's becoming more valuable everyday. And so I know locally you probably look at it as a lot of different buckets, a lot of different characteristics, but factor in the economic value to you and how it might work to your benefit over the long term. Question: (inaudible) JM: You have to use the best crystal ball analysis of what your future needs are going to be. You can structure that into a contract. You can start off selling to Irving 100 percent of your surplus, and 10 years from now you could sell them 90 percent of your surplus. And then 80 percent. So you can tell them, we have some water. There will be times we'll be needing some of that water back, and so you can have an adjustment mechanism in the contract. I've even seen contracts where you tell them here's how much water we think we can give you, and you can come and take this water with the reservation that if we ~ O00(146-