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City Council Water & Sewer Subcommittee Feb. 18, 2003 Page 4 they use a lot more of the system that they would if they take water directly from the plant. Mr. Bell asked Mr. Johns if the quality of their water had gone down. Mr. Johns stated no, that the quality of Campbell Soup's water has improved. Mr. Johns stated that they filter the water that comes from the city and the filters can be checked and the backwash water sampled, which has improved. Mr. Johns felt that it had a lot to do with the standards that the city has to operate with today verses ten or fifteen years ago. Mr. Bell said that it would be an advantage to Campbell Soup to have better quality water with it being that much more expensive to have .3 verses .5 turbidity. Mr. Johns stated that from the standpoint of cost, it really does not do anything for them, because they filter their water. Mr. Campbell explained that the state requires the city to go to .3 whether or not Campbell Soup does anything or not. Mr. Johns said that their standards require them to refilter the water. It has to go through a charcoal bed, which takes any flavors out of the water and the life of the charcoal could be extended by the quality of the water. Mr. Campbell said page six has a budget comparison for the Water Treatment Plant, Wastewater Treatment Plant, and the Lift Stations by fiscal year, number of employees, personnel cost, supplies, contractual, building maintenance, equipment maintenance, and the total budget with the electricity, chemical pumps /motors and maintenance machinery cost broken out separately. Mr. Wilson questioned Mr. Campbell regarding the increase in the number of employees in the Wastewater Treatment Plant in 1988 -89. Mr. Campbell stated there were two reasons. One was when he came to Paris the Wastewater Treatment Plant was in an atrocious condition. They did not have enough people to properly maintain the plant and he had to start increasing the number of employees. The next reason was they had to start meeting all of the new rules and regulations on wastewater. He pointed out that after all of that was accomplished, the number of employees became stable and they have not changed.