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<br />~60 <br /> <br />TUESDAY <br /> <br />JANUARY 24, 1984 <br /> <br />1. Our plant is operating, for all practical purposes, <br />at capacity. It is, therefore, susceptible to <br />another serious failure--such as occurred in <br />Spring, 1980. As one of our operating people puts <br />it, "We're hanging on by the skin of our teeth". <br /> <br />2. Our credibility with the regulatory agencies is <br />wearing thin; and we'll not be allowed to run up <br />one trial balloon after another indefinitely, while <br />routinely exceeding our permit constraints. <br /> <br />3. The Council is being assailed it seems by advice <br />from many quarters. Such advice is probably all <br />well-intended, but it is entirely uncoordinated <br />and much of it uninformed. I urge you to maintain <br />your confidence in your consultants and your staff- <br />who know more about our plant and its problems <br />than anyone. It's no trouble to give advice, if the <br />advisor has no direct responsibility for the outcome. <br /> <br />4. We must avoid short-sightedness in the acquisition <br />of sewage treatment capacity. We have taken much <br />comfort in having secured the City's anticipated <br />water needs for the next 20 years. How then could <br />we be content to expand our capacity to treat that <br />water as sewage for only the next 2 or 3 years? <br />Even if we go to Koehler first, we should be ready <br />and willing to expand our plant to 8.0 MGD in a <br />short time. The people in the Forest Park area <br />should not, therefore, be encouraged to think that <br />our plant might remain at current capacity for very <br />long. <br /> <br />5. The idea proposed by the "Committee for Citizens <br />Against Odor", to divert to Koehler while doing <br />absolutely nothing at our plant, is one of the <br />strangest twists in this whole affair. These <br />same folks, who have been consistently demanding <br />assurances that whatever we do will make our <br />plant absolutely odor-free, are now willing to <br />accept the plant as is, divert a certain amount <br />of our sewage to Koehler, and just see what <br />happens. The suggestion that the amount of <br />sewage diverted in Jones Creek, which is primarily <br />industrial, would be completely or permanently <br />replaced in our plant with domestic waste is, in <br />a word, wrong. P.S.A.'s industrial flow to our <br />plant continues to increase, and we know that <br />Pannill plans to expand. <br />