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" " , ~".' ~..} TUESDAY AUGUST 25. 1981 near the City's Industrial Park to provide water service from this source to the City's water customers within the Industrial Park and (that) a well, at or near the City's Jones Creek Water Treatment Plant, has been reactivated, from which latter source the City is receiving approximately 150,000 gallons of water per day (instead of the estimated 200,000 gallons per day). City Manager Edmonds further reported that the current level (below normal or below the spillway) of the City's Beaver Creek Water Reservoir is 11' 7~" and is currently receding at the rate of l"-to-l~" per day. In addition, Mr. Edmonds provided Council with copies of the following letter (dated August 25, 1981) from Mr. Lee Lintecum, Henry County Administrator, setting forth the Henry County Board of Supervisors' action taken August 24th on the City's request for permission to obtain raw water from Reed Creek on a temporary basis: At its meeting on August 24, 1981, after duly considering the City's request for permission to utilize a raw water transfer from Reed Creek to the Beaver Creek Reservoir, the Henry County Board of Supervisors offers the following proposals to the City of Martinsville: (1) Utilize existing capacity of the Public Service Authority's Marrowbone Treatment Plant to the fullest reasonable extent, which we believe to be 1.8 million gallons per day. (2) In the event this this supply is not adequate, the Henry County Board of Supervisors would obtain the necessary ease- ments and equipment for the Reed Creek raw water transfer, maintain it, and sell to the City the raw water available at a negotiable rate. I am enclosing a copy of a report from William C. Overman Associates which addresses the utilization of the Marrowbone Treatment Plant. Mr. Overman has estimated the cost of providing the 1.8 million gallons per day of treated water to be less than $150,000. This, of course, does not consider the negotiated price of that water, which would be worked out between the City and the Public Service Authority. Mr. Overman believes that 850,000 gallons per day could be provided within a thirty-day period. This would require the installation and connection of approximately 3,500' of 12" transmission main to tie the PSA's lines with the City's lines. The other cost in providing the additional million gallons would include a pump station, which would require a longer period of time than the thirty days previously mentioned; but Mr. Overman does believe that this can also be done in what he terms a "short period of time."