Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome. It's
Speaker 1: time now for our community connection. And we called it
Speaker 1: City Matters because if it matters to you, it matters
Speaker 1: to the city. And Laura, we've got the crowd assembled here,
Speaker 1: so let's get on with the show. We got a
Speaker 1: lot going on today, don't wait.
Speaker 2: Lots going on at the city. You know. I was
Speaker 2: going to give a golf course update because I feel
Speaker 2: like that's where I spend a lot of my energy.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of changes and lots of things going
Speaker 2: on at the golf course, but I thought we would
Speaker 2: change it up and we would start with the airport.
Speaker 2: I attended their flying this weekend on Saturday, and it
Speaker 2: was very hot. I took my seven year old with me,
Speaker 2: and for me, the highlight was seeing the wildcat. For her,
Speaker 2: the highlight was the lemonade stand that had the bobo beds.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well there you go, the important stuff, right.
Speaker 2: So I think she's still talking about the bobo beads
Speaker 2: and I'm like, wow, cat was so cool. But I've
Speaker 2: got Mike Richardson here, he is our airport director, to
Speaker 2: kind of give us an update and talk about the.
Speaker 4: Fly in good morning. This was our attempt at the
Speaker 4: second annual Back to Bartlesville Regional fly In. It was
Speaker 4: also the seventh annual Bloca All Blanca fly In. This
Speaker 4: was kind of spearheaded by the World War Two Airborne
Speaker 4: Demonstration Team. They have a World War Two era parachute
Speaker 4: jump school down in Frederick, Oklahoma, and a few years
Speaker 4: ago I was approached by Kevin Connor and Bob Prater
Speaker 4: about the possibility of relocating the Wildcat C forty seven
Speaker 4: aircraft to Bartlesville. And at the time we had the
Speaker 4: hangars space and we were able to make that deal happen,
Speaker 4: and two years later we're into our second annual Back
Speaker 4: to Bartlesville Regional fly In. And it was really a
Speaker 4: concept that was started to bring back kind of the
Speaker 4: glory days of the National Biplane Association Biplane Expo and
Speaker 4: the Tulsa Regional fly In. But we had about eleven
Speaker 4: hundred people, I think a little over that out over
Speaker 4: the weekend of eight hundred and some Saturday and a
Speaker 4: little over three hundred Sunday. And as you mentioned, it
Speaker 4: was very hot Saturday.
Speaker 2: But it didn't seem to retract from the numbers because
Speaker 2: it seemed like there was a lot of people.
Speaker 3: There and a lot of people turned out.
Speaker 4: I think the weather probably did get a few people thought, yeah,
Speaker 4: that's a little too hot for me, but we sure
Speaker 4: appreciate the folks that did take the time to come
Speaker 4: out and brave the weather. NELLA was back an eight
Speaker 4: six Texan from Sweetwater is where the Women Air Force
Speaker 4: Service pilots that were formed in mid nineteen forty three
Speaker 4: I believe were disbanded in nineteen forty four in December.
Speaker 4: But that's the only surviving AT six primary trainer from
Speaker 4: their heir that squadron. There's some eight sixes, but not
Speaker 4: WASP eight sixes, so they were selling rides. The airplane
Speaker 4: stayed busy all day Saturday and Sunday, which was remarkable.
Speaker 4: If you ever get a chance to fly at an
Speaker 4: open cockpit or a T six primary trainer, I highly
Speaker 4: recommend it. I got my first ride this year in
Speaker 4: a PT I believe it was thirteen or seventeen Steerman
Speaker 4: and in two S which is the Navy version of
Speaker 4: the biplane. It was phenomenal, It really was. NOLLA is
Speaker 4: part of the Air Power History Tour, and as I've mentioned,
Speaker 4: they gave rides it carries the names. Kind of a
Speaker 4: cool feature that the pilot showed us. They carry the
Speaker 4: names of some of the trainees from the nineteen forties
Speaker 4: in a wooden plaque in the luggage compartment, and some
Speaker 4: seventy plus years later, they were able to take some
Speaker 4: of the women that actually trained in the forties on
Speaker 4: a flight and let them fly the airplane again, some
Speaker 4: of them in their nineties.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it was.
Speaker 4: Pretty remarkable. The Tulsa war Birds were also there. They
Speaker 4: fly the North American T six trainers. It was known
Speaker 4: as the Pilot Maker. There was several hundred thousand people
Speaker 4: all around the world that learned to fly in that
Speaker 4: particular trainer and it was important for preparing pilots for
Speaker 4: combat training. We also had the Van's RV Formation team there,
Speaker 4: Travis and Liz Reese brittany Day. They're locals. They are
Speaker 4: aviation enthusiasts and have local aircraft based here in Martlesville.
Speaker 4: And the Advans RV is kind of a kitplane. It's
Speaker 4: put you can put it together in your garage or
Speaker 4: your shop, and you have to have some skills, a
Speaker 4: lot of riveting and things like that, but it's an
Speaker 4: excellent flying machine. Has excellent flying qualities and at affordable prices.
Speaker 4: Many of those type of aircraft are used for aerobatic
Speaker 4: shows and commonly perform all types of flying formations. I
Speaker 4: don't know if some of you might remember like one
Speaker 4: hundred airplane formation over Arrowhead Stadium to bring breast awareness
Speaker 4: breast cancer awareness that I think they shot pink smoke,
Speaker 4: but it was just and they were in the shape
Speaker 4: of an arrowhead, but it was pretty cool. I think
Speaker 4: they were part of that. But it's a pretty common
Speaker 4: aircraft for flying demonstrations. I want to thank all the
Speaker 4: sponsors in the community, all the volunteers. Without their help
Speaker 4: and support, none of this would be possible at all.
Speaker 4: I'm very happy to have it, and we'll start planning
Speaker 4: for next year right away.
Speaker 2: Yep I said it was a very cool event. I
Speaker 2: didn't This was my first time attending, so I didn't
Speaker 2: know what to expect. I don't know that my seven
Speaker 2: year old is an aviation enthusiast, but she was impressed
Speaker 2: by the Wildcat. They let you know, the kids get
Speaker 2: up in the Wildcat, and right before I was taking
Speaker 2: a picture of her in front of it, and then
Speaker 2: they decided that it was time to get it ready
Speaker 2: to take out there, and so she wasn't able to
Speaker 2: get inside of it, but we did. Yeah, we got
Speaker 2: close enough and got to see it, and like I said,
Speaker 2: it was kind of a sight to behold, and it
Speaker 2: was very cool to see it take off and you know,
Speaker 2: even watching them getting it fired up.
Speaker 4: Was it is neat to see an airplane that's eighty plus.
Speaker 2: Years Oh yeah, and.
Speaker 4: Then those big radio engines firing out. Yeah, it's truly
Speaker 4: remarked to me.
Speaker 2: It was something that you would almost see in a museum.
Speaker 2: So it's like, oh, my first thought and is kind
Speaker 2: of embarrassing to say this is does it run?
Speaker 3: Is it gonna fly? Than it does?
Speaker 2: So that was even cooler.
Speaker 4: They're surprised to see it on display, but they're even
Speaker 4: more surprised when it takes off. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they kept the doors open. They explained that
Speaker 2: there's no ac in it, that is maybe the acre open.
Speaker 4: And it's a big tan can, more of an oven
Speaker 4: than but yeah, at this time of year, a lot
Speaker 4: of fun.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: So next up, we've got I've got Kylie Roberson, our
Speaker 2: Library and History Museum director, here to give updates at
Speaker 2: the Library and History museum. We've got some fun stuff
Speaker 2: coming up to maybe.
Speaker 5: Not as much fun as airplanes all over the place,
Speaker 5: but lots of good things happening at your library and
Speaker 5: history museum. Actually today we have a lunch and learn
Speaker 5: happening at the library from twelve to one point thirty
Speaker 5: on Defying the Stage. So a lot of local theater
Speaker 5: really big in Bartleszill obviously, and so we want to
Speaker 5: look at the world of live theater. We're going to
Speaker 5: explore kind of the finer points of acting, beginning with
Speaker 5: an overview of the various styles of live theater from
Speaker 5: all over the world. She is going to be really
Speaker 5: neat and then a deeper dive into the definitions of
Speaker 5: some of the golden rules of the stage. And so
Speaker 5: if you're interested in live theater, if you love live theater,
Speaker 5: it'll be a really great program to come to. It
Speaker 5: is today, so if you can jump on in, it
Speaker 5: would be really fun to be at. And then October first,
Speaker 5: I mean, it's crazy to think we're all already talking
Speaker 5: about October, but all of my programs are looking at October.
Speaker 5: October first is our in the Kitchen with Susan, which
Speaker 5: is our monthly cooking class with Susan. She's a local
Speaker 5: restaurant here, many years of cooking experience she loves to share,
Speaker 5: you know, how she made healthy cooking easy for her
Speaker 5: family and for other families. This is just an incredible program.
Speaker 5: If you haven't already caught this either, you know the
Speaker 5: best part is that this one is offered in person.
Speaker 5: You can actually come to the library watch Susan do
Speaker 5: her thing live and then sample some of the delicious
Speaker 5: food that she makes. Or you can actually watch it
Speaker 5: on Facebook on our live stream and cook along with
Speaker 5: Susan in your own kitchen and we'll post what ingredients
Speaker 5: and things you need and you can just move right
Speaker 5: on along. And it's like our own Rachel Ray right
Speaker 5: here in Bartles Belts.
Speaker 3: And I've attended those before and it was very cool.
Speaker 2: I think she made some type of chowder and another
Speaker 2: type of sl.
Speaker 5: And I was gonna say, it's fall, so you can
Speaker 5: probably expect that it will be some good fall soupy deliciousness. Yes,
Speaker 5: that will be exciting. And then October twenty fifth is
Speaker 5: our annual Spectacular Trunk or Treat events from five thirty
Speaker 5: to seven thirty. It's a partnership between our library, the
Speaker 5: Community Center, First Presbyterian Church, and some other local friends
Speaker 5: all kind of come together to put on this really
Speaker 5: great event. We've had over one thousand attendees in the
Speaker 5: past come through. There's lots of candy, there's inflatables for
Speaker 5: the kids. We'll have some music going in the background,
Speaker 5: sometimes food trucks. I mean, it's just going to be
Speaker 5: a really really fun event, so please please come out
Speaker 5: and bring all your little goblins with you. We'd love
Speaker 5: to see all the trick or treaters and the library
Speaker 5: we'll offer some free books and all kinds of stuff
Speaker 5: as giveaways, so that'll be really really fun. We're also
Speaker 5: looking at partnering with some of our local departments to
Speaker 5: do a Touch a Truck event at that day too,
Speaker 5: so if you have little ones that want to see
Speaker 5: inside a fire truck or a police car, an ambulance,
Speaker 5: and all of those kinds of things, will have there
Speaker 5: so that you can kind of take a look and
Speaker 5: see what it looks like inside those giant trucks. And
Speaker 5: then obviously the History Museum is doing some really cool
Speaker 5: stuff in October as well. October seventh will be unveiling
Speaker 5: our new exhibit called social life and early traditions. It'll
Speaker 5: be focusing on the early life community of Bartlesville, so
Speaker 5: you definitely don't want to miss that, and in the
Speaker 5: vein of some of those early traditions.
Speaker 3: I just think this is the most fun.
Speaker 5: October seventeenth, we're going to host a fall break program
Speaker 5: on the dying art of cursive writing, because it is
Speaker 5: dying and if you haven't seen the kiddos today and
Speaker 5: what their cursive looks like or lack the right exactly,
Speaker 5: So we're going to do a program on the history
Speaker 5: of the art of cursive writing. And then we're going
Speaker 5: to pull out some of our old fountain pins that
Speaker 5: you actually have to dip in the ink and do
Speaker 5: some tutorials on cursive letter writing with these old school
Speaker 5: fountain pins. So taking a back old school for our youth.
Speaker 5: And then and it's for all ages. Adults can come
Speaker 5: too if you want to try it out. It's actually
Speaker 5: really hard. I would love I was telling somebody at
Speaker 5: the museum the other day, I would love to have
Speaker 5: someone from that era like looking over my shoulder and
Speaker 5: laughing because I can't figure out how to use this
Speaker 5: pin without like dipping it twenty times to write one word,
Speaker 5: but it is really really fun to do, so that'll
Speaker 5: be a really good one. And then October thirty first,
Speaker 5: it's you know, it's definitely spooky season. We're getting into October,
Speaker 5: so we had the spectacular with the library.
Speaker 3: The History Museum is doing.
Speaker 5: A Halloween walk on the thirty first from one thirty
Speaker 5: to three, so there will be lots of snacks, lots
Speaker 5: of treats for all of our little guys in costume.
Speaker 5: It'll just be so much fun. Definitely can't wait to
Speaker 5: bring out the kiddos to that. So's that's all the
Speaker 5: fun stuff happening at your library and History Music.
Speaker 2: Absolutely there's something for everyone always.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay, So next we have Terry Laurenson. He is our
Speaker 2: water utilities director and he's got a water update for us.
Speaker 3: Good morning. We start with the coolness factor library Airport
Speaker 3: pretty cool, a lot of neat stuff, and then we'll
Speaker 3: in with water wastewater, which is pretty low on the
Speaker 3: coolness factor. Unfortunately. No, it's not, no, it's not. We
Speaker 3: just want to be We just sometimes want to be
Speaker 3: out ofside, out of mind. That's kind of our normal
Speaker 3: motive operations in a sense. But we want to talk
Speaker 3: a little bit about how we're doing on water supply,
Speaker 3: what we are doing for future water supply, and then
Speaker 3: talk about all the specifics that have on have been
Speaker 3: ongoing really since the early two thousands, that hopefully we'll
Speaker 3: start seeing some fruits of those labors here in the
Speaker 3: next couple of years. But as people may or may
Speaker 3: not recall, our water supply is four sources. So we
Speaker 3: have Hewlet Lake, which is our largest water source. We
Speaker 3: also have water rights at Copan Lake. Hudson Lake is
Speaker 3: a city on lake just northwest of town. And then
Speaker 3: we have the Caney River, which is at Johnstone Park,
Speaker 3: and that is the original water supply for the city
Speaker 3: of Barsville, which was created back in the thirties. It
Speaker 3: is still in use today and still one of our
Speaker 3: primary points of water service for us. As many people
Speaker 3: have experienced, this last couple of years have been a
Speaker 3: little bit tenuous as far as water supply. We did
Speaker 3: have the second worst recorded drought in history at Hewlet
Speaker 3: Lake and at Copan Lake, I believe that was the
Speaker 3: worst drought that that lake has experienced in its entire history,
Speaker 3: so fairly difficult time that we were able to come
Speaker 3: through and Luckily in Christmas or early this year, we
Speaker 3: finally received the rains that removed all the water restrictions
Speaker 3: and enabled us to use water on a more normal basis.
Speaker 3: But prior to that drought, we were working on various
Speaker 3: options to secure additional water rights, and we continue that
Speaker 3: effort through to this day. So we want to just
Speaker 3: tell everybody what we're doing, where we're at, and hopefully
Speaker 3: where we will end up once this process is complete.
Speaker 3: So we did look at back late last year at
Speaker 3: all the water sources that are potentially available in the region.
Speaker 3: So that's going all the way down to Tulsa with
Speaker 3: Keystone Lake and Ulaga Lake, as well as over to
Speaker 3: close to Ponca City with Caall Lake. We also looked
Speaker 3: at Skytook and Birch Lake, which are just south of us.
Speaker 3: There is an aquifer in central Osh County that's called
Speaker 3: the aid of a Musa Aquifer, as well as looking
Speaker 3: at possibly buying treated water from the Tulsa area, either
Speaker 3: through Skytook, Collinsville or from the city of Tulsa. And
Speaker 3: so we looked at all the costs to secure those
Speaker 3: water rights, the cost to potentially get it to us,
Speaker 3: to facilitate a use, and really the top four options
Speaker 3: as far as the price goes were HeLa Lake, Copan Lake,
Speaker 3: the aid of EMUSA offer, and then call Late And
Speaker 3: so we've really been looking at those four options in
Speaker 3: much more detail to quantify exactly what that would cost,
Speaker 3: the time frame potentially to secure those water sources, and
Speaker 3: then ultimately what that's going to produce as far as
Speaker 3: a payment that we would have to give to move
Speaker 3: forward with those options. So with both Hula and Copan Lake,
Speaker 3: those lakes are controlled and owned by the US Army
Speaker 3: Corps of Engineer, and so those lakes have a lot
Speaker 3: more conditions and requirements that we have to satisfy in
Speaker 3: order to secure water from them. We were able to
Speaker 3: get a million gallons of water a day back in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty from Copan Lake after about twelve years worth
Speaker 3: of effort and assistance from our legislative delegation to get
Speaker 3: some language and a bill that made that option more affordable.
Speaker 3: But the two options we're looking at Hula and as
Speaker 3: well at Copan Lake is to convert what they call
Speaker 3: flood control to water supply, so that in essence means
Speaker 3: that you would raise the elevation or the level of
Speaker 3: the lake so that those lakes would store more water.
Speaker 3: So with Heula Lake, that is going to be the
Speaker 3: most cost effective option for us to pursue of all
Speaker 3: the options that we've looked at, and we've been in
Speaker 3: discussions with the Core of Engineers to start a study
Speaker 3: for them to look at what that would entail. They
Speaker 3: look at not only the impact to the structure of
Speaker 3: the dam itself, but also to potential risk and loss
Speaker 3: of benefit from a flood control perspective. So Hula Lake
Speaker 3: was originally built in the late fifties primarily as a
Speaker 3: flood control structure with a very limited amount of water
Speaker 3: supply that's available within that lake. So we have made
Speaker 3: those requests. We will meet likely with the Core here
Speaker 3: sometime in mid October to start getting into more of
Speaker 3: the details of that study. That study will likely be
Speaker 3: a three year type of study that the CORE will perform.
Speaker 3: We will participate, probably in some form or fashion financially
Speaker 3: with them in that effort, and we will see how
Speaker 3: that progresses. But we do believe that that's a viable option.
Speaker 3: That was an option the CORE did identify in the
Speaker 3: early two thousands when we looked at that potential option
Speaker 3: as well, so we believe that it's still viable. It's
Speaker 3: just going through the process to ultimately secure and to
Speaker 3: move forward with that option. So Copan Lake is really
Speaker 3: the same type of process. They do have water rights
Speaker 3: available that are reserved currently by the Town of Copan,
Speaker 3: so we are working with them to get some legislation
Speaker 3: as in conjunction with the Town of Copan to release
Speaker 3: those water rights so that we can purchase those water
Speaker 3: rights and then move forward with the flood control reallocation
Speaker 3: as well. But with all these things, they'd literally take
Speaker 3: an Act of Congress to move forward. So we've been
Speaker 3: very blessed to have a very engaged delegation of senators
Speaker 3: and representatives from the state of Oklahoma that have been
Speaker 3: working with us and on our behalf to put language
Speaker 3: together to move forward with that. So again that effort
Speaker 3: will continue. These are projects that take years and years
Speaker 3: to do, and if they've have been years and years
Speaker 3: in the making, to move forward to get to that point,
Speaker 3: so we will continue to pursue that option as well
Speaker 3: to see if that can be supplemented as far as
Speaker 3: water rights and additional water stories that we might be
Speaker 3: able to capture at that Lake as well, so the
Speaker 3: aid of a mussa aquifer. So again, this is an
Speaker 3: aquifer in Central Osage County is considered or classified as
Speaker 3: a major aquifer by the United States Geological Service. We
Speaker 3: have done some studies and we're able to find some
Speaker 3: previous studies that we're done on the amount of water
Speaker 3: that's available, how much can you pump out through a well,
Speaker 3: and some of the different considerations for that. So while
Speaker 3: the aquifer is considered a major aquifer and there's over
Speaker 3: fourteen million gallons of water available within it, there is
Speaker 3: a very shallow aquifer and just not a lot of
Speaker 3: water that we can pump out at on a given well.
Speaker 3: So it has a fairly slow recharge rate, is how
Speaker 3: they classify that. So the water doesn't move through the
Speaker 3: soil very quickly, so if you pump out a lot
Speaker 3: of water, it just doesn't replenish itself very fast. So
Speaker 3: to counteract that, you just simply can't pump out that
Speaker 3: much water. But what we have found through that water
Speaker 3: source is that if we had twenty five wells, we
Speaker 3: could get one point four million gawns of water a day.
Speaker 3: So from a usage standpoint, we average about five million
Speaker 3: gallons of water a day. Our current water storage rights
Speaker 3: are just above twenty million gallns of water day currently
Speaker 3: and to get about ten million gallons of water day
Speaker 3: for future use, which should really get us for the
Speaker 3: next fifty to one hundred years from a water supply standpoint.
Speaker 3: So that option is out there, it's available, it's just
Speaker 3: not hope. It just wasn't as beneficial as far as
Speaker 3: the amount of water that we could get from that
Speaker 3: source as we were hoping. But that's an option that
Speaker 3: the Water Resource Committee will certainly take into account as
Speaker 3: we look at all these in conjunction as well as
Speaker 3: what the cost impacts would be for the customers to
Speaker 3: pursue that. So the last one that we have looked
Speaker 3: at is Call Lake. So this is an extremely large lake.
Speaker 3: It's on the Arkansas River. It has a watershed or
Speaker 3: the area that drains to that lake starts all the
Speaker 3: way at the Rocky Mountains. So it has a watershed
Speaker 3: area of about thirty seven thirty eight thousand square miles,
Speaker 3: So a huge, huge watershed, very large lake, and they
Speaker 3: do have an abundance of water that's available to secure
Speaker 3: for a water supply standpoint. So in earlier this year,
Speaker 3: we contracted with an engineering company called S two Engineering
Speaker 3: to take a look at what the cost would be
Speaker 3: in the pipeline pump station to get that water to us.
Speaker 3: That study will wrap up next week and then we'll
Speaker 3: present the results to the Water Resources Committee. But that's
Speaker 3: going to be our most expensive option of the four
Speaker 3: that we are looking at, so it's likely going to
Speaker 3: be in the hundreds of millions of dollars to pursue that.
Speaker 3: The good thing is that it will address our water
Speaker 3: needs for the next one hundred plus years, but we
Speaker 3: will have to pay or find a way to pay
Speaker 3: for that security if that's the option that is pursued
Speaker 3: in the future. So in conjunction with that, we also
Speaker 3: are doing a little bit of an innovative product project
Speaker 3: at the wastewater plant, and that is what we are
Speaker 3: terming a water reuse type of scenarios. So this is
Speaker 3: where we take water that's treated at the plant and
Speaker 3: that we pump that water to the Caney River and
Speaker 3: that will allow us to capture that water again at
Speaker 3: the Caney River pump station at Johnstone Park, treat it
Speaker 3: for pottable applications, and then reuse that. So that's somewhat
Speaker 3: of an innovative technology for the state of Oklahoma. It
Speaker 3: has been widely used on the coast, so both the
Speaker 3: East Coast and West Coast have done this type of
Speaker 3: application for quite a while, but it's new for us,
Speaker 3: and so we have been going through the process of
Speaker 3: generating data and doing different tests and scenarios to look
Speaker 3: at not only the viability of that source, the safety
Speaker 3: of it, looking at all the trace chemicals contaminas that
Speaker 3: can be found potentially in a waste water source, and
Speaker 3: to see how we can treat that to ensure that
Speaker 3: that water is not only safe, but a viable option
Speaker 3: for us to move forward with a future. So that
Speaker 3: study was done earlier this year. We finished it back
Speaker 3: in June. We actually did a we termed a pilot study,
Speaker 3: so we actually simulated the process that we are looking
Speaker 3: to implement with the wastewater treatment plant expansion to demonstrate
Speaker 3: the results of that as well as to do all
Speaker 3: the testing and sampling to facilitate that you send to
Speaker 3: generate the data that would be associated with it. So
Speaker 3: I brought for our Facebook Life audience. I've brought some
Speaker 3: demonstrations to show what good we've got. So here you go, Tom,
Speaker 3: here's your You got to be on point. Okay, let's
Speaker 3: go all right, make sure I get in the camera.
Speaker 3: So this is the water we drink right now from
Speaker 3: the Caney River. So the Candy River is our is
Speaker 3: our primary water supply. So we use water from the
Speaker 3: Caney River twenty four hours a day, seven days a week,
Speaker 3: and we supplement that with lake water in the summer
Speaker 3: during high use periods, but really every day we're using
Speaker 3: this water. And that's what it looks like in the river.
Speaker 3: So the next part, Tom, is you get to participate
Speaker 3: on which one is which which one is treated water.
Speaker 3: Let me get it, hopefully I can get it right
Speaker 3: for the camera. Here we go, which one is treated
Speaker 3: by the river or which one is treated water that
Speaker 3: we drink, and which one is water that we send
Speaker 3: to the river from the wastewater treatment plant.
Speaker 1: One in your left hand looks like send, that one
Speaker 1: looks like receive.
Speaker 3: Okay, you're right. Taste tests. Yeah, so you get a test.
Speaker 3: So this water is the water that we drink. So
Speaker 3: we take this water. I flipped a coin, by the way, great,
Speaker 3: guess this water and we create this water from it.
Speaker 3: There you go, So what we are looking to do
Speaker 3: is to take this water ye and add it to
Speaker 3: this water, which makes this water cleaner and actually easier
Speaker 3: to treat from a water standpoint. So it's kind of
Speaker 3: the simple adage is dilution is a solution. I don't
Speaker 3: know if that's a simple adage, but that's kind of
Speaker 3: an industry coin is that this water makes this water cleaner.
Speaker 3: It doesn't take a whole lot of technical background to
Speaker 3: understand that the.
Speaker 1: Water that you're putting back is cleaner than the water
Speaker 1: that's already in the river.
Speaker 3: That's right there, you go, that's right, and so that
Speaker 3: makes that water cleaner, and that makes that water easier
Speaker 3: to treat, and it makes the water source more healthy
Speaker 3: from an environmental standpoint. So it's I feel better already.
Speaker 3: Thank you for this, good good, good. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 3: now you know again, this is new for the state
Speaker 3: of Oklahoma. We will likely be the very first in
Speaker 3: the state that reuses our water from this standpoint. The
Speaker 3: city of Fort Worth, Texas is this already. So they've
Speaker 3: done this for a number of years that they have
Speaker 3: treated their wastewater and they reuse that wastewater for their
Speaker 3: drinking water. Drinking water source and the truth is is
Speaker 3: that we use all surface water. So we are drinking
Speaker 3: somebody else's wastewater and have been since Bortlesil has been
Speaker 3: a community and been providing water, and we will continue
Speaker 3: to do so as long as we are providing water
Speaker 3: for the city of Bartlesville. Right now, Broken Arrow is
Speaker 3: drinking all of our wastewater and Lucky Lucky then so
Speaker 3: we're sending them a very good product. So we are.
Speaker 3: And so this is they call this de facto reuse.
Speaker 3: It's been around forever, it will be around forever. Just
Speaker 3: because water is not being made, we're having to reuse
Speaker 3: it from the various sources that we get or that
Speaker 3: falls from the sky. And so that's what we are
Speaker 3: looking to do in conjunction with these four other options
Speaker 3: to secure our water apply for the next fifty two
Speaker 3: hundred years. So in conjunction with that, I always like
Speaker 3: to talk about what should we be putting in our wastewater,
Speaker 3: what should we be flushing? So, Lord, this is going
Speaker 3: to be for you. This is just an unannounced little
Speaker 3: test for you. So I'm gonna say, I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 3: gonna ask you can we flesh it or not? Can
Speaker 3: we put it in the toilet or not one of
Speaker 3: these types of things. So you and you and Tom
Speaker 3: can participate. This is a group participation. Okay, So what
Speaker 3: about a fleshable wipe? No such thing as a fleshable
Speaker 3: one such things. What if it says that on the
Speaker 3: container fleshable wipe, it's not sure, that's right. There's nothing
Speaker 3: fleshable about a nice because of that, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 3: So we call these disposable wipes. But they are not
Speaker 3: like toilet paper. They do not break down in water,
Speaker 3: so they become basically a clog for your system. So
Speaker 3: people that are fortunate enough to flush them and they
Speaker 3: don't get stuck in their sewer service line. Eventually they
Speaker 3: do plug up the wastewater main. And about seventy five
Speaker 3: percent of the backups that we have to work and
Speaker 3: to unclog have disposable wipes within it. So if you
Speaker 3: have a disposal wipe, the proper place to put that
Speaker 3: is in the trash, never ever, ever in the toilet.
Speaker 3: Go all right, So what about bacon grease. I'm a
Speaker 3: big bacon lover. I love bacon, So you get bacon grease.
Speaker 3: So pour down the drain when it's nice and liquidy. No,
Speaker 3: what about olive oil? What if you have olive oil?
Speaker 3: You know it didn't well.
Speaker 1: She's kind of skinny.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, olive can be yeah, olive oil. So you're
Speaker 3: right on both. So what about like vegetable canola oil
Speaker 3: something like that always stays liquid? Have you ever seen
Speaker 3: that get hard?
Speaker 1: The feeling that somewhere down the line is not going
Speaker 1: to work?
Speaker 3: No? No, no, So that's a that's right. It doesn't
Speaker 3: lubricate it, so that actually becomes problematic for us to treat.
Speaker 3: We use a biological process to treat wastewater, meaning that
Speaker 3: we produce as humans the enzymes of bacterias that break
Speaker 3: down the waste and clean the water up. So this
Speaker 3: is all from what we produce as humans. Now, we
Speaker 3: do have some mechanical screens that remove the inorganic or
Speaker 3: the non biological stuff that's in the water. Unfortunately there's
Speaker 3: more than we'd like to have in there, but the
Speaker 3: rest of it is done by the bacteria and the
Speaker 3: enzymes that we produce. We just create an environment that
Speaker 3: these things work really really efficiently and do a fantastic
Speaker 3: job with it. So what about like paper towel? Oh,
Speaker 3: probably not probably not, probably not okay. So anyways, if
Speaker 3: you want to find out more of what you can
Speaker 3: flush or what you can flush, this is available on
Speaker 3: the city's website. Please feel free to look at it.
Speaker 3: If you have any questions, always feel free to call
Speaker 3: your city management team which is nine one eight three
Speaker 3: three eight four two eight two, which they'll they'll redirect
Speaker 3: you to me. But we appreciate your help, and this
Speaker 3: is not only for your benefit but for everybody that
Speaker 3: served by the wastewater system.
Speaker 1: Already on that note, folks, we've got a flush and
Speaker 1: go