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very busy area. If you've been off (Highway) 380 and seen everything that's happening there, there aren't a whole lot of pipeline corridors left, to bring water in, particularly to the west side of Dallas County, which is where there is a particular shortage. So, to see how all of this fits together, there are a couple of things that are cooking. We know Upper Trinity Regional Water District is working on Lake Ralph Hall, and ultimately that probably ties into our pipeline. Then we've got Hugo and Pat Mayse, and it's important to talk about them both because you can see how they fit together, because they are so close. And also, the Muddy Boggy Basin that comes in here. So there are a lot of pieces that fit together with establishing a smart corridor through this area. Look at a pipeline from Pat Mayse running down, either to Cooper or in another alignment that somehow or another gets to our pipeline as quick as we can. That's why with that infrastructure in place, with that pipeline, that we are so interested in trying to make it work. Because not only are we trying to meet our needs, which is about 35 million gallons a day, or 39,000 acre feet. That's our total need. We are going to meet part of that with re -used water, conservation, and ... we're working all kinds of options. That would get us up to about 80 mgd total. We have about 45 mgd right now. That's ultimate buildout. You have to remember, too, when you talk about water supply, this is 20 -year or 30 -year horizon sort of stuff. Or even longer. We're talking 20/60 for the ultimate demand. And so, how can we make that happen within the resources we have and within the resources available in the region, and what makes sense. Question: What about the Lower Bois d'Arc? Jim Cline: Lower Bois D'Arc? I don't know. That's a North Texas Municipal Water District lake. Question: But you're partners with them. Jim Cline: Not on that particular lake. I don't mean to be short with you, but that's not part of the plan that they've got right now. I don't know a lot of the issues with Lower Bois d'Arc. I'd defer to someone else about that. Todd Reck: Our partnership with North Texas is strictly with Cooper and the first 40 miles of the pipeline. We share the pipeline and the intake pumping facility. They discharge into the creek just north of Lake Lavon, and our pipeline splits off and continues all the way to Lewisville. Jim Cline: Their area is Richardson, McKinney, Plano, Frisco, and all that, and then there's kind of gray area you get into Upper Trinity, and everything south of there is in Dallas, in the Dallas Water Utilities area. Let me finish the story, too, on the pipeline. We bring our water to Lake Lewisville; our water is all treated by Dallas. We have a long -term contract with Dallas Water Utilities. We have some storage in Lake Lewisville that we purchased -- 9700 acre feet. And then in Carrollton, just downstream of Lake Lewisville, is the Elm Fork Treatment Plant, where our water generates from. It enters the north end of the city, and we distribute it throughout. There's another plant by Bachman Lake that we can get some water from. We have another access point, but it's the same Trinity River. It just pulls it out a little farther downstream. So that's kind of how our system works. The water basin for Lake Cooper is up here, for Pat Mayse is here, Hugo is up this way. What we take out of Lewisville will be allowed to go over the dam because it's water we put in that lake. It's an interbasin transfer; it's coming from Region D and going into Region C. And so that's where the re -use comes in; since it's new water we have certain rights to the re -use. And we use that for irrigation and for cooling towers maybe. We just got a report on that this week, so