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Ray Ball: "We technically couldn't produce 55 million gallons a day of drinkable, potable water, or whatever the term is." Shawn Napier: "Not under the present set -up, no." Ray Ball: "Would we want to show that on our chart ?" Robert Campbell: "The average is meaningful, but the peak is meaningful, too. Both of them are relevant for that presentation. Again, I get back to; you've got to meet that requirement on a peak day." Reeves Hayter: "I think, as Dan said earlier, what questions people are going to ask once this presentation is made. And when we show the average day up there, the first thing people are going to say is, yeah, what's the peak? And if we show the peak, they're going to ask you the other side of the question. They're going to say we don't really use that much. So I think they do both have to be in there." Dan Smith: "And if you put that there, because we separate the contracted industries, if we have Campbell Soup separated out, and we have Lamar Power Partners separated out, and we have Lamar County Supply District separated out, I think it would be worthwhile to show what the peak day is for each of those that we have contracts with." Robert Campbell: "Of course, you have some diversity in your customers. For instance, the peak for the water district might be one day, and the next day might be the peak for the power plant, and the thing about it is, those altogether will give you some diversity. It doesn't mean that you use the high of those contracts every day." Dan Smith: "I understand that, but HDR recommended we look at re -doing contracts, so if you wanted to re -do a contract with Lamar Power Partners, they're going to still have to be covered for their peak demand days, so the story they're looking at, Lamar Power Partners, to me it would be interesting to see what is their peak day. We know what their average is, what is their peak day? Because no matter how you re -did a contract, you're going to have to guarantee the peak day." Robert Campbell: "Yeah. But when I talk about diversity, that gives you a little bit of running room for the 55 million, it gives you running room for the pumping; it gives you running room for the treatment. Diversity, the whole system benefits from diversity. If you had just one customer doing that, you wouldn't have any diversity." Sharron Nabors: Remember back in March or April a couple of years, and it got real hot and they weren't expecting it, and they didn't have the power to supply this, and Austin and Dallas and all around the state ... quit. I mean, everything just shut down. You can't (predict) the weather." Ray Ball: "With the exception of Campbell Soup, I would think we'd have not necessarily the same peak times everybody else has, it sounds like the power companies would fall in the same manner."