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<br />TUESDAY <br /> <br />JULY 28, 1981 <br /> <br />-- <br /> <br />In considering a plan, presented by City Manager Edmonds at Council's July 14th <br /> <br />meeting, to encourage voluntary water conservation practices by the City's <br /> <br />water customers and/or to mandate such practices through certain penalties or <br /> <br />surcharges, Council was provided by Mr. Edmonds with certain additional information, <br /> <br />particularly as to certain possibilities of obtaining--subject to approval by the <br /> <br />Henry County Board of Supervisors, the State Department of Health, and/or private <br /> <br />land owners--raw water from various sources within the County of Henry as well as <br /> <br />treated water from the Henry County Public Service Authority's Marrowbone Creek <br /> <br />Water Treatment Plant, plus the possible reactiviation of a well at the City's <br /> <br />Water Treatment Plant, the total estimated volume from all of these sources, if <br /> <br />made available and determined as feasible on a short-term basis during the current <br /> <br />emergency, barely being equal to the current draw-down of 3,000,000 gallons of <br /> <br />water per day at the City's Beaver Creek Reservoir. The largest single possible <br /> <br />source was identified as Reed Creek, estimated to provide 2,000,000 gallons of <br /> <br />water per day, the use of which would require--again, on an emergency basis--the <br /> <br />construction of an overland pipe to convey raw water into Beaver Creek and thence <br /> <br />into the City's reservoir. As to the Henry County Public Service Authority's <br /> <br />Marrowbone Treatment Plant, with a transmission line already in place Closely <br /> <br />adjacent to a City water main at or near the City's Industrial Park, which--if <br /> <br />connected--could meet the Industrial Park consumers' daily needs of 65,000 <br /> <br />gallons with no major problems involved, City Manager Edmonds and Assistant City <br /> <br />Manager-Public Works Director George W. Brown pointed out that to use this source <br /> <br />to supply other City needs, even the users within the southern part of the City, <br /> <br />which would be isolated from the City's circulating system, many adverse conditions <br /> <br />would arise because of the design differences between the two systems, the <br /> <br />differences in the treatment processes, the differences in the elevations, the <br /> <br />differences in sizes and composition of the two systems' pipe lines, the <br /> <br />differences in pressures and velocities, plus the probable flushing of sediment <br />