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City Council Water & Sewer Subcommittee <br />Feb. 18, 2003 <br />Page 6 <br /> <br />meters not working properly. Mr. Anderson advised that during the past ten <br />years the city has replaced every retail and commercial meter in the ground and <br />that now they are checking them again. Mr. Anderson felt this was happening <br />on the industrial side instead of the residential side, but Mr. Campbell thinks <br />it is just the opposite. Mr. Campbell explained that Carter-Burgess has done <br />a water loss study where they did leak detections and found out where water <br />was leaking. He said they gave Mr. Townsend a long list of leaks to repair, and <br />all of that has been done. Mr. Campbell said the Lost Water Study is saying <br />that the City of Paris has leaky lines. <br /> <br />Mr. Jim Bell referred to the City Council minutes of January 21, 2003, page <br />4, middle paragraph, ~'Mr. Campbell said the cost for raising the water rates is <br />not in the production end of it, it is in the debt service". Mr. Bell said we are <br />talking about a lot of production cost and that Mr. Campbell made that <br />statement about debt service. Mr. Campbell said he was talking about the price <br />of the water which has gone up $0.30 per thousand gallons as a production cost <br />has increased since he has been with the city, of that 47% is inflation, which <br />leaves $0.15 per thousand gallons that the production cost of water that has <br />gone up. Mr. Bell said Mr. Campbell further said that the cost of raising the <br />water rates is not in the production end, but in the debt service and in the old <br />system that the city has. Mr. Campbell said that is correct. Mr. Bell said a <br />minute ago Mr. Campbell said we have a capability today to produce 32 <br />million gallons under the new standards and the city is producing water .09 <br />turbidity when we are only required to produce at .3 turbidity. Mr. Campbell <br />advised that the state wants the city to do this even though the law says .3 <br />turbidity, they want you to maximize on the turbidity because of Giardia and <br />Cryptosporidium. <br /> <br />Councilwoman Neeley explained that in terms of that sentence, at the <br />beginning of the meeting last month, each member of the committee was asked <br />to state their goals of what they wanted from this committee and she said that <br />most of you in this room knew what happened last time. The rates were <br />increased in order to repair the sewer system. Mr. Campbell advised that in the <br /> <br /> <br />