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City Council Water & Sewer Subcommittee Feb. 18, 2003 Page 2 Partners' pumping station picks it up and pumps it around the plant and to their plant. Mr. Campbell said that the city will be maintaining this whole system. Lamar Power Partners bought it, paid for it, installed it and they are giving it to the City of Paris and the city will maintain the system. Mr. Johns asked for the capacity of the Water Treatment Plant. Mr. Campbell said it was up to contention. It was designed to go up to 36 million gallons back in 1996, but with the new rules and regulations that have come in since that time, they did not know. Mr. Johns asked with the new water standards, if they have lowered the capacity. Mr. Campbell advised that he feels they will, but right at this time, City Attorney Schenk is finishing up a contract with Freese and Nichols to perform a study of the city's Water Treatment Plant. Mr. Campbell said the 36 million gallons is the plant's peak flow, but 21 million gallons is all they have ever produced. Mr. Campbell advised that this was designed in 1994 and built in 1996 to meet the rules that were in effect at that time, but the rules have changed since then. The plant was designed to go to a.5 turbidity unit and now regulations require a .3 turbidity. Due to the new mandates, Mr. Campbell felt that regulations lowered the plant's capacity to about 32 million gallons a day, in his opinion. He said they are averaging 11 million gallons, with the flow peaking at 22 million. He said that these flows represent ideal situations. Mr. Campbell said that page three is a simple diagram of the ground storage and distribution process flow diagram in 1987. He said water was produced and pumped straight from the Water Treatment Plant to the distribution system and to the two elevated tanks. The plant was modified in 1994 and in 1996 they changed that capability to pump high pressure in this fashion to one pump, opting for a plan to pump under low pressure to ground storage where the water would be distributed by smaller low pressure pumps. He stated that last week, when they had a major water leak, they switched back to this pumping scheme; otherwise, the whole city would be out of water if they had not retained that one pump. Mr. Campbell said that page four shows how the ground storage /distribution process is designed today. He said they have added a four million gallon ground