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possibilities. I think the key thing is, what kind of water supply could come out of the lake that the community would find acceptable. There's lots of pieces to this that will take some time. Again, I don't want to rush. My point was not to come in here today and say what are you guys going to do? You know, elections .., those are decisions of the City Council and we'll be respectful of that. Question: What are you going to do if the citizens turn it down? Jim Cline: We'll look somewhere else. Much like we're talking to Hugo, I'm not stopping talking to Paris. That's part of my message today. I wanted to make sure y'all heard it directly from me, that we're not bailing out because we may have found one thing. It's a long way from being done, and there's a lot more demand than a lot of things can provide. Maybe not just in our city, but in others, and how that comes together. Again, if the citizens of Paris say no, then we've taken an opportunity to learn a lot about a lake, we've exhausted an opportunity, and we move down the road. We would hope they wouldn't. But that would be the only option I could see, is that we would move on down the road. Question: Eighty million gallons a day is what you're looking for in 2060? Jim Cline: Eighty million is our whole demand in 2060. Question: Of which today you've accounted for 45 million. So you're technically looking for 35 million a day, from whatever source. Jim Cline: That could include re -use of water we already have access to but can't implement; water conservation; another facility; a number of different things. Now keep in mind, one of the questions that came up, is there a possibility that this effort may entail more water than we need to meet our needs. Well, the question then becomes, does it make sense if this is financially lucrative for, to use an example, the city of Paris, if someone else is using .... because remember, we've got this one pipeline, this corridor that is so key, we think, and what people have told us, it's so important that we look at the opportunity to do different things. We're continuing to look for things, continuing to work for it, and we are a part of that. Todd Reck: The field work on the volumetric study is supposed to be finished by early next week. Steve Pettit: I talked to them today and the results should be ready by Monday -- the report. Todd Reck: They've been responsive and done a good job. We were concerned that they might not be able to meet the deadline, but. Jim Cline: And we've been paying for, helping to fund some of your consultants, and we've been paying some of ours. So I think we've been voting with our feet in terms of answering the questions. Todd Reck: That 80 mgd, that's an ultimate demand. I don't know if there's actually a year tied to it. It's part of a 75 -year plan that we've been looking at. It's on out there ... 2060 ... 2070... Question: Peak or average? Todd Reck: That's a good point. That's an average day demand. Now, peak day demand may be twice that, one and a half times that anyway.