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these contracts to give you the peak days, not the average. In other words, our contract, or the power plant contract, is not for the average, it's for the peak. And when we start talking about your contract is for so much more than you use, but that's not the fact. The fact is, your contract meets the peak, and if you don't meet that but two or three days out of the year, you still have to have that contract amount in order to meet your requirements." Dan Smith: "The contracts, I think, list it as per day. I understand what you're saying, but I think it's listed as average per day." Robert Campbell: "No, the contract does not provide for the average per day. It provides for the peak. In other words, when you enter into the contract, you contract for what you're going to have a need for at your highest level. Otherwise, you violate your contract if you go over that." Reeves Hayter: "But we could write those contracts - they're not written, but we COULD write those contracts in such a way to reflect an annual average instead of a peak day." Dan Smith: "Well, if you could write them to guarantee the peak day, and reflect the annual average .2' Jim Kays: "The average day, I think the highest day shown was 22 million. The lowest was actually 8 million." Robert Campbell: "But the pumping and the treatment have to be for that peak. You can't meet your requirements otherwise." Ray Ball: "I played around with that 55 million gallons a day, and tried to calculate how long it would last with no input, in an extended drought. Figuring a half -inch loss a day is about 12 to 14 inches a month - which you only has 36 feet to play with (from 451 feet to 415 feet). Taking out 12 million gallons a day, you got about 36 months worth of water. At 55 million gallons a day, which is three and a half times greater, that reduces it proportionately to maybe less than 12 to 14 months. That's with zero input." Dan Smith: "And if you added the peak, it would be lower than that." Ray Ball: "The other question you raised, the contracts say you have to produce so much good water, I mean usable water, not raw water. What is it, 30 million gallons a day at this point ?" Robert Campbell: "From a treatment plant ?" Ray Ball: "Yes." Robert Campbell: "I don't know what the maximum a day pumping is. Do we have that, Shawn ?" Utilities director David Harris: "Twenty -seven million gallons."