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Subject: Transcript of Irving's presentation 8/7/08
<br />Transcript of the presentation on Thursday, Aug. 7, to the Pat Mayse Lake Study Committee
<br />by Jim Cline, public works director for the City of Irving, and Todd Reck, chief utilities officer
<br />for the City of Irving. Also present were Steve Pettit, senior engineer in water utilities, and
<br />Randel Dobbs of Nathan Maier Consulting Engineers, whom Irving has hired to do a feasibility
<br />study.
<br />Jim Cline: we are really proud to be here tonight. we think there is some interesting future
<br />with trying to work through all these issues with pans. we have enjoyed working with shawn.
<br />and continue to look forward to that in the future.
<br />my name is jim cline. I'm public works director for the city of Irving. Todd Reck heads up our
<br />water operation, and Steve Pettit is our senior engineer. One of our consultants, Randel Dobbs, is
<br />here also with Nathan Maier Engineering, and he's doing a lot of the work on the pipeline.
<br />what I'd like to do is take a few minutes to go over our system overall and answer the
<br />question, "Why does this make sense ?" in terms of why would Irving be interested in buying
<br />water from Paris.
<br />I'd like to just cover a couple of things real quick:
<br />There were some specific questions that were asked. We'll answer those as best we can -- or at
<br />least discuss those, and then go from there.
<br />If you saw The Dallas Morning News this morning, having to do with the Hugo, Okla.,
<br />agreement, that's under consideration tonight in Irving, so I've got to be back in Irving by 7:30 to
<br />present that contract. I'm not in a position to talk a whole lot about it tonight -- it's all still up in
<br />the air, but one of the reasons I particularly wanted to come tonight and really wanted to reassure
<br />you, whatever the right word is, I want to make sure you knew that is part of a picture that still
<br />has Paris in it, when we start talking about all these things.
<br />I want to make sure that is very clear, that those are not mutually exclusive, that we are still
<br />actively seeking to see if we can make this work in Paris. There is such a demand for water in the
<br />Metroplex. You know what the population numbers are doing, and you know how that's all at
<br />work, you've seen those numbers. That when you think about it logically, with a pipeline that can
<br />connect up, if it does come together, then there's a pipeline that goes right by Pat Mayse Lake,
<br />and it would sure make sense to think about that.
<br />I wanted to say that right up front because that would be the big white elephant in the room,
<br />you know, that we weren't talking about, and so I wanted to make sure y'all heard that directly
<br />from me, right up front.
<br />With that in mind, let me get this map up here and go through how our system works, and why
<br />it makes sense, and then talk a little bit about some of the questions about what we've got.
<br />Todd Reck was a big part of making this happen, and probably the most significant thing is
<br />that our water is ... we own about 45 million gallons a day right now, that we use. About 7 of
<br />that, we purchase from Dallas, and the remainder we have in Lake Chapman, or Cooper Lake.
<br />And we have an 84 -inch pipeline that's owned half between us and North Texas. It goes down
<br />from Lake Chapman to Lake Lavon, and then we own the pipeline that connects from Lake
<br />Lavon to Lake Lewisville.
<br />There's a pump station at Cooper, a pump station at Princeton, here just east of McKinney.
<br />The bottom line is there's a 75 -foot right of way with one pipeline in it, off to one side. My
<br />predecessors in the public works business made smart decisions to provide a corridor through a
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