Speaker 1: And good morning here on K one and fourteen hundred
Speaker 1: FM ninety three point three ninety five. We won few
Speaker 1: technical issues here behind the scenes, but welcome to this
Speaker 1: City Matters program. I got a motley crew in here
Speaker 1: today exactly exactly City of Barnellsville officials in Terry Lawrenson
Speaker 1: over a water wastewater. We have Jason Mounager who's over
Speaker 1: all the finances and taking care of all the legal business,
Speaker 1: and of course fire Chief HC. Call and Andrew Ward,
Speaker 1: our deputy police chief.
Speaker 2: Good morning, gentlemen.
Speaker 3: How are we morning? Yes, we have an eclectic group here,
Speaker 3: I guess to say the least an accurate description. So
Speaker 3: and just as a little note, this is Andrew's first
Speaker 3: radio program, so he is making a maiden voych here,
Speaker 3: so we will.
Speaker 2: Does that mean I can abuse him? Yes?
Speaker 3: Absolutely, yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 1: We've had a little bit of practice with that. When
Speaker 1: we actually hired HC. Call, we were on the teamage.
Speaker 3: Oh there I go.
Speaker 2: I know now we could talk about that anyway, Cherry.
Speaker 2: What do we have going on in the city, Well.
Speaker 3: We want to go through a few announcements just to
Speaker 3: remind citizens what's going on and just to kind of
Speaker 3: keep everybody in the loop. But we do still have
Speaker 3: the disposal site for the tree and brush damage from
Speaker 3: last week's storm, so that is open through next week
Speaker 3: through July second. The press release says that it's on
Speaker 3: Highway six eat just west of town. It's open from
Speaker 3: seven to three thirty Monday through Saturday, with the exception
Speaker 3: of this Saturday, so it will not be open this Saturday,
Speaker 3: but it will be open Monday through or Monday through Friday,
Speaker 3: and then Monday Tuesday next week. So if you still
Speaker 3: have any tree brush damage that you need to haul off,
Speaker 3: that site is still available for you, just as a reminder,
Speaker 3: that is for tree debris, brush and vegetation only, so
Speaker 3: no sheds, no fences, know anything of that of that
Speaker 3: contact there with it. So if you haven't taken advantage
Speaker 3: of that and you still need to dispose of some
Speaker 3: tree debris, that's a great sight to do.
Speaker 1: So you can just take your sheds and your trees
Speaker 1: and I mean your your sheds and your your fence
Speaker 1: is over to Terry's place.
Speaker 3: That's rights in the county as everybody else does. But joking,
Speaker 3: don't do that. Take it to the landfield. Take We're
Speaker 3: supposed to go. So as the weather has finally cleared
Speaker 3: and summer seems to be upon us. Uh Now, construction
Speaker 3: begins on several projects. Uh So, we have a road
Speaker 3: project starting on North Madison between Minnesota and Tuxedo. So
Speaker 3: city crews will be doing a resurfacing job really starting
Speaker 3: from the water tank if you're familiar with that area
Speaker 3: north to Minnesota. So that will be all of this week,
Speaker 3: so that will facilitate if they're not closing the road,
Speaker 3: but they're really requesting that if you don't live on
Speaker 3: that street to avoid that that particular section. Work's going
Speaker 3: to be from seven am to seven pm on those dates.
Speaker 3: Only local traffic is permitted through that work area. So
Speaker 3: if you can avoid that, if possible, we encourage you
Speaker 3: to do so. So again, that's this week Monday through Friday.
Speaker 3: Hopefully it will be Friday, whether permitting, of course, with
Speaker 3: the rains and whatnot that's forecast.
Speaker 1: Later this week we have another big one as well.
Speaker 1: I think you're about to talk about. This has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with the City of Barlowso, by the way,
Speaker 1: that's right, Yes, this is o DOT finally doing something.
Speaker 3: Yes wild So last week O Dott did announce that
Speaker 3: they are doing some preventive maintenance work on Adams or
Speaker 3: Highway sixty really starting at Quawpaw to Highway one to
Speaker 3: twenty three, so really through the downtown area. We're not
Speaker 3: exactly sure the extent of what they are looking to do,
Speaker 3: except that it's going to be an asphalt maintenance type project,
Speaker 3: So we're not sure if it's a millan overlay or
Speaker 3: if it's just an overlay, but they do they are
Speaker 3: going to have lane closures throughout that project. It will
Speaker 3: start this week, it will go all the way till August. First,
Speaker 3: their plan for some of the minor intersections is to
Speaker 3: close those intersections while that work progresses through that intersection.
Speaker 3: On the major intersections, like on Cherokee and possibly Johnstone,
Speaker 3: they will have flagged people there to help facilitate traffic
Speaker 3: north south through those intersections. So if you can avoid
Speaker 3: Adams Boulevard for the next month, I guess that's kind
Speaker 3: of what they're talking about. They would encourage you to
Speaker 3: do so, but it will be certainly one lane of travel,
Speaker 3: likely both directions, so there will be delays if that's
Speaker 3: your primary route or if you happen to go down
Speaker 3: that route during construction, but that begins today and it
Speaker 3: will go all the way through August first. But this
Speaker 3: isn't the final solution for OTAs Boulevard, so this is
Speaker 3: just kind of as a stop gap. They are planning
Speaker 3: to completely remove and replace the road in twenty twenty
Speaker 3: seven to twenty eight, so we're still a few years away.
Speaker 3: I guess they've heard us all the times that.
Speaker 1: I guess so because we talked about it, I don't
Speaker 1: know how many times. And I mean, it's better than
Speaker 1: nothing than nothing. I know a lot of people have
Speaker 1: been avoiding Adams anyway because of the state of especially
Speaker 1: as you're going down the hill they're from near Lee
Speaker 1: Lake and Silver Lake and then avoiding the right hand
Speaker 1: lane as you're coming into downtown. Yeah, several alightnments I'm
Speaker 1: sure have had to be done.
Speaker 3: That it is. Unfortunately, they are not doing anything on
Speaker 3: that particular stretch, so it's really from the River West
Speaker 3: is really what they're looking to do.
Speaker 2: Interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, so thanks for that update, because we were
Speaker 1: told it was going to be from the seventy five
Speaker 1: overpass all the way down.
Speaker 3: Yeah. The press release that they told us is that
Speaker 3: it's going to be from Quawpaw Okay West Okay. Well, no,
Speaker 3: I stand corrected. They did say between US and five
Speaker 3: and Highway went twenty three. So but I guess they're
Speaker 3: starting in Quawpaw Okay So okay, they're starting downtown. But
Speaker 3: I guess the maintenance project will go all the way
Speaker 3: to Highway seventy five. So you are correct, Nathan.
Speaker 2: It happens a while there you go, not very often.
Speaker 3: So that's that is ongoing and much needed. But again
Speaker 3: these are in essence temporary repairs to kind of buy
Speaker 3: time to get to the final replacement, which is a
Speaker 3: few years away. Fire hydrant testing continue, so we as
Speaker 3: part of our annual maintenance of fire hydrants and just
Speaker 3: checking make sure everything is operating operational, we test all
Speaker 3: the fire hydrants within the city limits and in the
Speaker 3: surrounding area. So that's roughly sixteen hundred hydrants that we
Speaker 3: test and we are almost complete. So currently we are
Speaker 3: in what we call Zone ten, so that's at Price
Speaker 3: Roads south the Rice Creek Road and Hampton Road to
Speaker 3: Highway seventy five, so kind of that south eastern quadrant
Speaker 3: of the city that we are doing those hydrant tests there.
Speaker 3: So if you're in that area, just keep in mind
Speaker 3: that you may have times where the pressure is reduced
Speaker 3: while we conduct that flow test, and if there is
Speaker 3: any issues that's over an hour, call us that should
Speaker 3: be corrected when it finished, since it typically takes about
Speaker 3: twenty minutes to an hour to do the testing in
Speaker 3: the particular areas.
Speaker 1: So that's like a Colonial and Kenelworth and Starve View.
Speaker 1: Am I saying that right? Yeah, one right there by
Speaker 1: the old Price barn.
Speaker 3: It is yep, yep, Starvial, Colonial, Kenilworth And then in
Speaker 3: kind of that whole section there, so south Price, west
Speaker 3: of High with seventy five, So if you're in that
Speaker 3: area and east of the river, if you're in that area,
Speaker 3: that's we're coming towards you here at Prive within the
Speaker 3: next week.
Speaker 2: Very good.
Speaker 3: And the last one is that we are doing a
Speaker 3: wastewater rehab on a sewer line on Denver Road just
Speaker 3: west of Cherokee between Cherokee and Shawnee. Unless you live
Speaker 3: on that street, you will never notice it, but we
Speaker 3: will have some lane closures to facilitate that work. That
Speaker 3: is starting today. It will last for the next couple
Speaker 3: of weeks. So pairly short hit type of thing. If
Speaker 3: if you happen to drive by and see work going
Speaker 3: on there, that's what's going on. Uh. And of course
Speaker 3: if you live on Denver, then that's gonna be something
Speaker 3: that you will know very intimately.
Speaker 2: Got a couple of friends who live on Denver, So
Speaker 2: there you go. Sure we'll hear about that.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, So it's one of the you know, it's
Speaker 3: just to make it better, you have to you have
Speaker 3: to kind of close things and make it a little
Speaker 3: bit of challenge to navigate. And that's, uh, that's just
Speaker 3: where we're at. And so I guess Jim Bonzac said,
Speaker 3: the you know, the the quickest point between two destinations
Speaker 3: is usually under construction.
Speaker 1: Of course, that's that. So multiple construction areas going on
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 3: Multiple multiple improvements by that's making it better. And so
Speaker 3: we can we can live through the temporary things so
Speaker 3: that the improvements are there in the roads or whatever
Speaker 3: facility is much better in the long run.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: All right, So we're gonna jump into our group here,
Speaker 3: so HC We're gonna start with you to talk a
Speaker 3: little bit about some some fun facts and different things
Speaker 3: to keep in mind here in the next big holiday.
Speaker 4: Sure, as we approach in July fourth holiday, we just
Speaker 4: want to remind everyone that fireworks are prohibited within the
Speaker 4: city limits of Barnesville, So if you get get caught
Speaker 4: shooting off fireworks, that could come with a fine and
Speaker 4: get your fireworks confiscated. That's on public and private property,
Speaker 4: So anything inside the city limits you can't shoot your
Speaker 4: fireworks off. We would like to encourage people to report
Speaker 4: that on the non emergency number instead of calling nine
Speaker 4: one one so it doesn't tie up the nine one
Speaker 4: one emergency number. Yes, yeah, PD's non emergency number is
Speaker 4: nine one eight three three eight four zero zero one,
Speaker 4: So if where.
Speaker 2: You could call Chief Hall on his personal cell phone.
Speaker 4: Yes, there are public displays on July third, fourth, and
Speaker 4: the fifth, so you've have Hillcrest Sooner Park and then
Speaker 4: also the Dungeons Stadium will have a show on the fifth,
Speaker 4: so we just want to remind everyone on that. And
Speaker 4: as the temperatures start increasing, we just want to encourage
Speaker 4: everyone to be mindful of the hotter temperatures and the
Speaker 4: higher humidities and just be careful if you're outside doing
Speaker 4: yard work or anything outside with the family. On that
Speaker 4: that side of things, and then one other thing we
Speaker 4: had going on. We had an annual softball game between
Speaker 4: us and the fire department and the police department.
Speaker 1: So since he's leading with this, I kind of have
Speaker 1: an idea where this might have gone.
Speaker 4: So this has been ongoing since probably the seventies, we've
Speaker 4: played a charity softball game fire versus police. It hadn't
Speaker 4: happened every year, but we try to try to do
Speaker 4: it as often as possible. This year it was headed
Speaker 4: up by the fire rider Ryan Winter and Officer Sierrah
Speaker 4: Compton were the ones that spearheaded this year's This year's
Speaker 4: game raised a little over nine hundred dollars and the
Speaker 4: charity was Special Olympics this year. So out of that,
Speaker 4: I think the score was I want to go back
Speaker 4: and I think it was twenty.
Speaker 3: It was close.
Speaker 5: I think it was.
Speaker 4: Twenty three to eleven. Fire Department won again. This was
Speaker 4: closer this year than it has been the past, twenty
Speaker 4: three to eleven.
Speaker 3: I heard there was some bias on the you know,
Speaker 3: the umpire, you know as well, different strike zones there,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sorry, it's twenty five to eleven. I was
Speaker 4: off on the score. He forgot that eleven. But it's
Speaker 4: all in fun. We tried to raise money for a
Speaker 4: good cause, and it's I don't know exactly what the
Speaker 4: record is, but you know, from the seventies to now,
Speaker 4: we've played quite a few games. I think p D's
Speaker 4: won one or two along the way.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 1: By the way, well, that's where they held a little carrot,
Speaker 1: you know that the stick on the carrot with the
Speaker 1: carrot on the stick, it's actually a doughnut.
Speaker 2: I'm just kidding with you guys.
Speaker 4: So there's a there's a traveling trophy and it has
Speaker 4: a permanent residence at Central fire Stake.
Speaker 6: Permanent.
Speaker 4: But yeah, usually we'll try to get some some one
Speaker 4: usually volunteers to get tased or something along those lines.
Speaker 4: So we didn't have that this year, but we had
Speaker 4: a couple of other things that went on. So we
Speaker 4: tried to do it every year and raise some money
Speaker 4: for a good cause around the around the area. But
Speaker 4: I just wanted to say thanks to Officer Compton and
Speaker 4: Firefighter Winter for spear hitting this year's game and it's
Speaker 4: a lot of fun. Hopefully to do it again next year.
Speaker 4: Give the cops another chance.
Speaker 2: That's why they need some practice.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know, talk to Chief Mickaelberry about that.
Speaker 4: See if you can get you guys and in the Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Well that's we did this perfectly, Nathan to let Hi
Speaker 3: go first and then Andrew can provide his rebuttal you
Speaker 3: know in there. That's the way democratic forum there. So Andrew.
Speaker 5: Going to start off with the borders with the police department.
Speaker 5: Did win the boots and Badges blood drive ah over
Speaker 5: this last weekend, so we're winners in that.
Speaker 4: Maybe you shouldn't have donated blood before playing, so I
Speaker 4: don't know that was what the problem was.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what's going on with the police department. We're getting
Speaker 5: ready to wrap up our second annual Basic Peace Officer
Speaker 5: Certification Academy. We have two officers graduating that they'll go
Speaker 5: directly into field training. There'll be about sixteen weeks in
Speaker 5: that before they hit the streets, so we're definitely excited
Speaker 5: to have them. Shortly after that, we'll be starting the
Speaker 5: new academy August eighteenth. I think we have one in
Speaker 5: that along with several other cities, are conjunction with Tri
Speaker 5: County Tech. And the most important thing is our police
Speaker 5: department annual block party. It's going to be September twenty seventh.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be from eleven am to two pm. We'll
Speaker 5: be putting a lot more information out on that here shortly,
Speaker 5: and lastly, like to give a shout out to Arvest Bank.
Speaker 5: They're gonna be at the police apartment today. They're cooking
Speaker 5: everybody lunch. So we're definitely appreciated.
Speaker 3: There you go, there you go, great, fantastic. Well, yeah,
Speaker 3: so maybe there's a change in the softball format where
Speaker 3: it's the blood drive first, chasing first, and then you
Speaker 3: do the softball there. Yeah, we'll see. Yeah, you can
Speaker 3: chase all the firefighters and play first.
Speaker 5: That works.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go, even the playing field there. So
Speaker 3: all right, Andrew, So, has there been any word about
Speaker 3: the Citizen Police Academy or they talked about that for
Speaker 3: the next session here.
Speaker 5: It's been in the works. Were gonna have a final day, Yeah, okay,
Speaker 5: next week coming up.
Speaker 3: Okay, tell us a little bit about the Citizen Police
Speaker 3: Academy as far as what what is there qualifications? You
Speaker 3: have to live in a certain area or anybody who.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, be within the city limits of Artistsville. Then
Speaker 5: you'll apply. Then we'll reach back out to you with
Speaker 5: the dates we do this. Last time we did a
Speaker 5: shortened version which seemed to work out really well. I
Speaker 5: think we'll probably do that again. Well, we try to
Speaker 5: have under twenty participants in it, because that's a really
Speaker 5: good number. Everybody gets good conversation with that. But you'll
Speaker 5: go through and learn what it is to be a
Speaker 5: police officer and how we do things and why we
Speaker 5: do things, and we want them to ask the tough questions,
Speaker 5: you know, to us and all that. So that's how
Speaker 5: it's how we come together as community and be better.
Speaker 3: All right, So stay tuned if you have an interest
Speaker 3: in the police department. There is a Citizen Police Academy
Speaker 3: that is upcoming soon. So I'm sure there will be
Speaker 3: some announcements online and I bet they will talk about
Speaker 3: it on the radiote further as well. So all right, Jason,
Speaker 3: you're our cleanup heitter. So talking about citizen academies academy,
Speaker 3: we're going to talk about other citizen academy.
Speaker 6: Well, we put on our first Citizens Academy last June.
Speaker 6: It was an ad June time frame, my memory serving
Speaker 6: me correct. Originally, let's have Tracy Rolls as one of
Speaker 6: the one of the kind of leads on this and
Speaker 6: he took another job shortly. Yes, so I got thrust
Speaker 6: in the film is role. So I was part of
Speaker 6: this last year. Similar to the Police Academy, we take
Speaker 6: twenty twenty people. They do have to be a resident
Speaker 6: of the City of Bartlesville, work in the City of Bartlesville,
Speaker 6: or let's say I got some notes here, or full
Speaker 6: time employed or a business owner. You must be eighteen
Speaker 6: or older. You must have a transportation to get yourself
Speaker 6: to and from. You have to be able to make
Speaker 6: all the commitments on the dates that are given. I
Speaker 6: think it's kind of tentative right now because this is
Speaker 6: just a draft format of what we're going through. But
Speaker 6: it'll be in September October time frame. It's a six
Speaker 6: I would say six week but it's it's bi weekly,
Speaker 6: but there will be six sessions and it's kind of
Speaker 6: similar to Police Apartment, just kind of shows you the
Speaker 6: different departments, different responsibilities of the city. You know, we'll
Speaker 6: we'll go from the legal side, city management side, water wastewater,
Speaker 6: get to the water plant, the wastewater plan.
Speaker 3: It's pretty informant that.
Speaker 6: Honestly, till we did this last year was the first
Speaker 6: time I'd ever been out to the wastewater plan, so.
Speaker 3: Wow, you got to get out of.
Speaker 6: So even even as an employee that's worked there a
Speaker 6: long time, there's still pieces of the city that I'm
Speaker 6: we kind of know what everybody does from the surface level,
Speaker 6: but kind of get to see the ins and outs
Speaker 6: of what they do on a daily is uh, you know,
Speaker 6: something even I don't get to experience. So I think
Speaker 6: it's very informational to the to the citizens and if
Speaker 6: they really you want to know, and I assume people
Speaker 6: that are going to apply to to be honestcom you
Speaker 6: really do want to take a deep dive into their
Speaker 6: city government. So I know we got some time here,
Speaker 6: so let's try to tell you questions for filler.
Speaker 3: Dive in some details. So what's the cost? So is
Speaker 3: there any costs? No costs, okay, free to.
Speaker 2: The free.
Speaker 6: Applications will be accepted through July thirty. First, I apologize,
Speaker 6: I don't know. I'm assuming that's probably out on our
Speaker 6: website as a form for that.
Speaker 3: I don't know that to be one, I don't think
Speaker 3: they've posted it yet, but I think they'll do the
Speaker 3: application through the website when that opens up.
Speaker 1: I think I think Laura said assistancy major Laura Summer
Speaker 1: Sanders Summers, listen to me, that's Martha's task. I think
Speaker 1: she said the applications will become available July first.
Speaker 3: First sound.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was not at the meeting where all this
Speaker 6: uh pride, and I found myself being another part of again.
Speaker 6: I kind of thought when I volunteered last year for it,
Speaker 6: it got me out of the loop, but they got
Speaker 6: me wrapped in for two more years.
Speaker 3: So I think, yeah, when you're so good and you
Speaker 3: get volunteered for opportunities.
Speaker 6: So give kind of a quick overview. You're gonna get
Speaker 6: to meet city council members. You'll get to meet all
Speaker 6: department heads, a lot of our staff. You'll learn how
Speaker 6: the decisions are made, how city funds are allocated, how
Speaker 6: our departments operate. You'll get a comprehensive overview of departments programs,
Speaker 6: the services in which they provide, discover current status and
Speaker 6: future plans for marginalous development, their service operations, and other
Speaker 6: various topics. You're gonna participate in lively discussions and fun
Speaker 6: interactive activities, some more fun than others.
Speaker 3: There you go, Well, I think the encouragement is for
Speaker 3: hands on participation.
Speaker 6: So there's definitely some hands on experience. I know, we
Speaker 6: take them out of the yard city are and they
Speaker 6: get to mess around some of our large equipment.
Speaker 3: Run some equipment. They get to actually physically view the
Speaker 3: various plants to see exactly what happens. We don't get
Speaker 3: them to do anything.
Speaker 6: Oh, you can see stations and wastewater. You know the
Speaker 6: wastewater treatment plan, which is you know, kind of a
Speaker 6: gross well, it's a process where we start at and
Speaker 6: where it finishes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean that the a lot of folks
Speaker 2: don't know that.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously you have two different plants, and you
Speaker 1: know it doesn't all come from one plant. But the
Speaker 1: ted Locking Unicipal Water Facility out there on Lake Hudson Road,
Speaker 1: it's absolutely incredible. When what's that built?
Speaker 3: Built in two thousand and six.
Speaker 2: Okay, so it's coming up on it's a twenty years. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And how many millions of gallons of water can that
Speaker 2: plant process each day?
Speaker 3: It can process twenty six million. So our current averages
Speaker 3: roughly five and a half is what our annual average is.
Speaker 3: Summertime is much higher due to you know, just outdoor
Speaker 3: water use of such we'll get up in the eight, nine, ten,
Speaker 3: sometimes twelve million gawns a day. Wintertime obviously is quite
Speaker 3: a bit less, but if you average it all out,
Speaker 3: five point five million gallons of water per day through
Speaker 3: that facility.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, so it's it's key there, folks that twenty years
Speaker 1: years ago, nineteen years ago to be more more precise,
Speaker 1: that facility was built with the future in mind, and
Speaker 1: you know so that that that capacity is there. Where
Speaker 1: we have a little bit of an issue is with
Speaker 1: the supply. But again, absolutely pristine facility there. I've been
Speaker 1: out there one time. Okay, so maybe I need to
Speaker 1: go out and do this. I've never been to the
Speaker 1: wastewater treatment player.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah. A lot of people just seem to
Speaker 3: shy away from that, which.
Speaker 2: Isn't I don't know why. The smell.
Speaker 3: Well, you run the pathfinder, especially starting there in Johnstone
Speaker 3: Park and you go kind of to the east, you
Speaker 3: run right by it.
Speaker 2: So absolutely right, I don't think you can miss it.
Speaker 3: No, you can't miss it. So unfortunately their exposure is
Speaker 3: on the front end of it and they don't really
Speaker 3: see what it gets to as far as all the treatment.
Speaker 3: They have claniness that comes out of it. So that's
Speaker 3: a really fascinating process in itself on how that works.
Speaker 3: A lot of science that goes into it, a lot
Speaker 3: of you know, a lot of dedication with the employees
Speaker 3: that operate that out there. So it's really kind of
Speaker 3: a I think it's an interesting process. Others may agree
Speaker 3: or disagree with it, but it really you notice the
Speaker 3: difference from when the water comes in you can see it,
Speaker 3: and then the water goes out to the river you
Speaker 3: can see, you know, just a claiming it's between the two.
Speaker 3: And it's an amazing the difference that that makes in
Speaker 3: really a short amount of time, just a few hours
Speaker 3: through that process to get it all cleaned up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the good news that we have right now
Speaker 1: again Terry, is we've had so much rain. Hula is
Speaker 1: like twenty five feet above normal. You know, Copana is
Speaker 1: more than ten feet above normal. I'm sure Lake Hudson
Speaker 1: is doing just fine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's full, so listen.
Speaker 1: So much better than what we were talking about, you know,
Speaker 1: two years ago this time where we were having a
Speaker 1: very concerning water issues.
Speaker 2: But we're good for this summer so far.
Speaker 3: Hopefully it will be good for at least a year
Speaker 3: plus and so that's been fantastic from a water supply standpoint,
Speaker 3: and that's just the way nature works is sometimes it
Speaker 3: gives an abundance and sometimes it gives very little. So
Speaker 3: we're in an abundance cycle, so we're very thankful of that.
Speaker 3: When water is in normal cycles, we really have sufficient
Speaker 3: water really for the next twenty thirty, forty fifty years
Speaker 3: and that timeframe. But during extreme droughts or kind of
Speaker 3: those weather patterns, that or water supply gets to be
Speaker 3: a little less than what we would really want. So
Speaker 3: that's been the efforts with the Water Resources Committee is
Speaker 3: to bridge that gap during these extreme weather patterns that
Speaker 3: we have sufficient water for the next dred years and
Speaker 3: that's really the goal for us, is the one hundred
Speaker 3: years that accounts for a severe drought as we had
Speaker 3: a couple of years ago, so that our water future
Speaker 3: is secure and well at hand there.
Speaker 1: And just because we have an abundance of water right now,
Speaker 1: that does not mean that the city's Water Resources Committee
Speaker 1: and your department is still looking for those You're doing
Speaker 1: studies all the time and finding out the best solution
Speaker 1: for our area. Right because, again, folks, burtles of water
Speaker 1: just does not serve the Sea of Bartlesaw, it serves Dewy,
Speaker 1: it serves other communities around the areas. So looking at
Speaker 1: a bigger picture here, we're doing great, but as we know,
Speaker 1: two years ago we weren't, and so looking towards the
Speaker 1: future and making those plans right now, that's always on
Speaker 1: the top mind.
Speaker 2: For your department.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so the Water Resources Committee has met numerous
Speaker 3: times and they've disseminated through a lot of information. So
Speaker 3: the plan is that that's been approved through council is
Speaker 3: to continue with water reuse. So for people that may
Speaker 3: not have heard that or be real familiar with it,
Speaker 3: we will have the ability to take up to four
Speaker 3: million gallons of water from our wastewater treatment plant process,
Speaker 3: treat it to a higher degree and a cleaner threshold,
Speaker 3: and then send that water upstream to the Caney River
Speaker 3: around County Road fifteen hundred ye and then it would
Speaker 3: flow down the river roughly about seven miles and then
Speaker 3: we would reuse that or retake that water at the
Speaker 3: pump station that's by Kitty Park, which is a raw
Speaker 3: water pump station and the original pump station for the
Speaker 3: city of Borrows Hill, and then retreat it to a
Speaker 3: pottable standard and be able to reuse it. So how
Speaker 3: I like to talk about it is that we will
Speaker 3: clean that wastewater to a point where it's just almost
Speaker 3: an eyelash from being drinkable. We'll send it to the
Speaker 3: river to get it dirty again, and then we'll retreat
Speaker 3: that to you know, back to get it to a
Speaker 3: pottable standard. So if you are interested in seeing that process,
Speaker 3: we will certainly talk about that in much detail through
Speaker 3: the Citison Academy and you will see how clean that
Speaker 3: water will get. Because we will pull a sample. We
Speaker 3: won't make you drink it. We do make Jason drink It.
Speaker 2: Explains a lot.
Speaker 3: It explains a little bit there with Jason, but that
Speaker 3: so that's one of the things is water reuse. The
Speaker 3: rest of it is going to involve the engineers. So
Speaker 3: we're looking to flood control reallocation at Hughle Lake. That's
Speaker 3: going to have to require federal legislation, which is the
Speaker 3: next round is in twenty twenty six, so we're working
Speaker 3: with our delegation. We have had legislation approved in twenty
Speaker 3: two and twenty four that will facilitate the possible acquisition
Speaker 3: of water rights at Copan Lake. That requires a partnership
Speaker 3: with the Town of Copan. We continue to work on
Speaker 3: that agreement to get all the details worked out. So
Speaker 3: if we're able to do that, that will add another
Speaker 3: two million gallons of water a day to our portfolio.
Speaker 3: So those who two three things in essence will get
Speaker 3: this threshold that will provide one hundred years of water
Speaker 3: during a drought condition. So we're encouraged with that. It's
Speaker 3: going to take time. Anything with the federal government is
Speaker 3: very lengthy, but we do that so it minimizes the
Speaker 3: cost to our rate pairs because ultimately we have to
Speaker 3: be the ones that pay for whatever it's done. So
Speaker 3: we will release news as we come through it, but
Speaker 3: it's a long lead item and so news won't be
Speaker 3: very abundances of course work.
Speaker 1: Of course, what is the big news right now is,
Speaker 1: of course the construction project Adams Boulevard. Thank the Lord
Speaker 1: O Dot getting in and doing doing some maintenance. Again,
Speaker 1: this is not the full restoration of Highway sixty through town.
Speaker 3: It's just kind of all.
Speaker 2: Right, gentlemen, thank you so much.
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