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Regular City Council Meeting June 16, 2003 Page 19 City of Paris has activated sludge with extended aeration, which some of these cities have, but if you will look at the Sludge Disposal Method some of the cities uses the landfill, which is very cheap at this time. That will be stopped soon because TCEQ does not want to fill up landfills with the treatment plant sludge. He asked that the Council look at their water treatment cost per thousand. The City of Paris is $1.10; where Greenville, with a much simpler plant and easy disposal, is only $1.03; Sherman is higher than the City of Paris; Denison is about the same; and he has not figured out Mt. Pleasant yet because they have such a varied cost center that is hard to figure out, just like what he had talking about where all their costs are. Corsicana is lot higher and Lewisville is pretty much in line with the City of Paris. Lewisville also operates their plant 24 hours a day with two operators per shift. Corsicanna operates their plant 24 hours day with one person per shift, but that 8 hours and one person is an over-land flow. They have an over-land flow field, which is like Campbell Soup and this most unusual. Mt. Pleasant only operates their wastewater plant 8 hours a day; Denison operates their 24 hours a day with one operator; Sherman operates theirs 24 hours a day with one operator; and Greenville operates theirs 13 hours a day and the City of Paris operates 24 hours a day with 2 operators. Mr. Campbell asked the Council to look back at the operated hours per day on water and Lewisville is the only one that works 12 hours shifts and they have 3 operators on each shift and working 12 hours a shift, and one is not only operating, he is doing some type maintenance. If you go down to how stringent the government is enforcing against them or what their permits calls for, the permit limits and the City of Paris has a pretty stringent permit. He said the lower the numbers the more stringent it is except on the DO and you have to have a higher DO because they want you to have more oxygen in the water. If the Council will notice the city's is 10, 15, 2, & 6, and Greenville is still 20-20 and their ammonia in the summer is 2, but in the winter it is 10 and their DO level is lower. Mr. Campbell said he could tell right now that Greenville is going to have to get ready to spend some money, and they are getting ready to spend money on bonds. Sherman is comparable to Paris, Denison is the same 20-20 and they do not have an ammonia limit, but they have a 2 DO, and those will change because all of the others are 10, 15 for most of the cities and that is the norm for now days and that is what TCEQ requiring.