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City Council Meeting January 8, 2001 Page 13 containing business records. The adjoining buildings received smoke and water damage, but no fire damage. City Manager Malone advised the estimated cost of the fire is over $100,000.00, and wanted to let the City Council know, from his personal observation, itwas a tremendous fire and the Fire Department and all the men in the Fire Department did a tremendous job of bringing that fire under control. City Manager Malone said he felt this was due to the fact that the Fire Department is better trained and with up to date equipment, they are able handle this type fire. City Manager Malone advised the Council of the seriousness of the loss of power at Pat Mayse raw water pumping station on December 25t" which occurred about 4:30 P. M. and remained off until December 27t". He described as more serious the situation of power to the Water Treatment Plant going off about 3:21 P.M. on December 26t" and that we were unable to have power restored for 9 hours and 44 minutes. He praised the personnel of the Utilities Department, who, under the direction of Herb Campbell did a tremendous job in maintaining pressure in the system. They had made sure their tanks remained at appropriate levels and they had plenty of backup facilities in effect and with good power planning, they were able to keep the system from depressurizing long enough for the power to be restored. City Manager Malone advised that there was about 12 million gallons of water production lost, which would equate to approximately $22,000.00. He said the Water Treatment Plant experienced about 98 hours of overtime. The industries were asked to shut down by 12:00 noon on December 26t" or not to start up and most of the industries delayed their start up until December 27t". City Manager told the City Council that near normal operations were resumed by 12:00 noon on December 27t" by using Lake Crook water. City Manager Malone said the Wastewater Treatment Plant was also down. The powerwent off on December 25t" late in the evening and came back on 47 hours later on December 27t". Power was also lost to the master lift station, which is the station that pumps all the wastewater from Paris up to the Wastewater Treatment Plant. The lines were down and the 300 horsepower motors were submerged in wastewater, and the employees did a great job in getting those motors out and taking them to Mt. Pleasant to be dried out. The City Manager said there were ten lift stations and a pumping station at the Flow Equalization Basin that lost power; however, the Flow Equalization Basin had a large generator that powered that