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City Council Water & Sewer Subcommittee January 21, 2003 Page 3 Gene Anderson, Director of Finance, pointed out that another thing that will have to be considered is the age of the system, because that will determine the amount of expenditures being made for both capital and maintenance. Mr. Campbell said the people doing our rate study can provide a lot of this information. He said they set the rates based on certain factors. Mr. Campbell advised that during the last upgrade the Water Treatment Plant was designed to produce up to 36 million gallons a day. New rules and regulations have come into effect and the city is going to have to meet them. The city will probably have to drop the plant capacity back in order to comply with these rules. He said we produce an average of 12 million gallons a day and in the summer time we peak out at about 22 million gallons a day. Chairman Plata said that would be another good question that he could ask. Mr. Campbell told the Committee that the Water Treatment Plant was designed with a turbidity unit of .5 and the state has lowered that to .3, which is a big factor. Councilwoman Neeley asked Mr. Campbell if they measure how many gallons of sewage goes through the wastewater treatment plant and asked for those numbers. Mr. Campbell said the average is 4.25 million gallons per day and that figure will increase when there is a lot of rain when it goes up to7.25 million gallons per day, which is the wastewater treatment plant's capacity. Mr. Anderson said it might be useful to know if there are any other production facilities in the county of the cities that you talk to. There could be some rural water district that might have their own plant. Chairman Plata asked if most places around here have labs? Mr. Campbell said if they are meeting state requirements, they have to have a lab in order to do their testing like the City of Paris does.