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the evening and came back on 47 hours later on December 27''. Power was also lost to the master lift station, which is the station that pumps all the wastewater from Paris up to the Wastewater Treatment Plant. The lines were down and the 300 horsepower motors were submerged in wastewater, and the employees did a great job in getting those motors out and taking them to Mt. Pleasant to be dried out. The City Manager said there were ten lift stations and a pumping station at the Flow Equalization Basin that lost power; however, the Flow Equalization Basin had a large generator that powered that station, which enabled them to pump the wastewater into the Flow Equalization Basin in order to maintain the wastewater system. There was 144 hours worked by personnel of the Wastewater and Lift Station Divisions. The City Manager advised that the city did have to employee outside Sanitation Companies to come and pump some of the Lift Station at a cost of approximately $8,600.00 for that. Total cost in wages and materials was $24,497.00 and the value of the lost water production brought the total estimated lost of $46,497.00, and he felt that Mr. Campbell and his employees did an outstanding job in keeping this situation from being worse than it was. City Manager Malone also complemented Rick Hundley the Electrical Inspector for the City of Paris, as many of the electrical services were pulled away from homes and had to be restored, and in most cases, inspected before the power could be reconnected to citizen's homes. Mr. Hundley did a total of 244 electrical inspections, 71 man hours from December 26`h through December 31 t City Manager Malone said the Street, Traffic, Parks and Water and Sewer and Engineering Divisions worked 959 total overtime hours for this payroll, and as he mentioned, on the evening that the ice storm occurred the crews came in and were ready for the storm by sanding the streets. They also assisted with brush pick up with the exception of the Water and Sewer Division because they were working on their problems. City Manager Malone had an estimate of about 100,000 cubic yards of brush on the ground and that would be five times the annual amount of brush that the city would pick up. He said the city began staging the brush to be brought to the