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City Council Meeting <br />January 28, 2004 <br />Page 5 <br /> <br />how much water was provided to Lamar County. Mr. Napier stated 5 MGD <br />maximum by contract. City Attorney Schenk said with the 8 MGD to <br />Campbell Soup, the 10 MGD to the City and the 5 MGD to Lamar County, that <br />is a total of 23 MGD. <br /> <br />Councilman Bell indicated that was the peak, not the average. Mayor Fendley <br />indicated that the water contracts included Kimberly-Clark, Campbell's Soup <br />and Tenaska. City Engineer Napier indicated these were the three major <br />industrial users and the study basically looked at these. <br /> <br />City Attorney Schenk said the Freese and Nichols letter used the number 26.5 <br />MGD. <br /> <br />Councilman Bell asked how much Lamar County asked for. <br /> <br />City Attorney Schenk explained the current contract with them says the City <br />is obligated to provide them with a maximum of 5 MGD. The study indicated <br />there were administrative considerations in that number that may cause Lamar <br />County to require more water just for their current customers. <br /> <br />City Engineer Napier explained that Lamar County has an exception with <br />TCEQ. TCEQ requires most everyone to apply .6 gallons per minute per <br />connection and Lamar County is currently at .35gallons per minute per <br />connection. <br /> <br />He related that sometimes TCEQ goes back and looks at the past record of <br />water usage, and that would probably go up because of some drought years. He <br />figured it could go up to as much as 9 MGD. <br /> <br />City Attorney Schenk said that did not necessarily mean they would use that <br />much, but they would have to contract to meet the State regulations, to have the <br />availability of that water. <br /> <br />City Manager Malone continued that this means the City would have to have <br /> <br /> <br />