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Mr. McClain said they followed the large user contract, and there is a distribution. component of the large contract, and there is a production component also. Mr. Ross said they have spent a lot of money, may be millions, increasing their distribution. Does that not effect their desire not to want to pay 40% increase to the City of Paris? Mr. McClain said it may be that way, but the fact of the matter is, we do have this large user agreement, and one of our charges in doing the rate study was to compute the rates according to what the large user agreement sasys as to how they read. Mr. Ross wanted to know how Paris increased their distribution to Campbell Soup? City Engineer, Earl Smith, came forward refreshing the Council's memory of this - when the City undertook the last water treatment expansion, which goes back to the Master Water Plan, there was a study of the Water Treatment Plant, it was determined that if we lowered the pressure delivery of water from the treatment plant to ground storage instead of pressuring the City from the Water Treatment Plant, that we could realize power saving and take the peaking factors that existed at the treatment plant and put those in ground storage. Mr. Smith said when this was done, we had a contract with Campbell Soup that said we had to supply water to them at a certain pressure, and when we lowered the pressure on the pumps at the water treatment plant to deliver water to ground storage, the City could not meet the terms of the pressure requirements in that contract, so part of the expansion routed another pipe line to ground storage back to Campbell Soup and Tensaka, which put them on the distribution system. Mr. Smith said that in the past, Lamar County, Tensaka, and Campbell Soup, the City had to find the pipeline between the Water Treatment Plant and ground storage as a transmission main, even though the pressure in that main along that piece of the route was probably 80 to 90 pounds. They were enjoying that