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Griffiths: Mandrich: between Northern, Superior, and the Denver Water Board. What we're doing is getting water from the Western Slope through Gross Reservoir down through South Boulder Creek. That agreement was to allow Superior to go forward with our project until the pipeline was brought over. It took two agreements. One with Northern, Denver, and Superior. The other with FICO and our district. We talked about paragraph 1 of the agreement on the commercial development. I had asked a follow up on what Councilmember Sisk was asking. It was my understanding from you that the District currently has additional treatment facilities completed since May 1, which would serve .2 million gallons per day for commercial use. Is that correct? That's correct under this agreement. We started our discussions on this agreement last year and at that time we wanted to invest in the pipeline connection between our lines and Louisville's lines. It's not like we're opening a valve and we go from Louisville's system to our system. We have a series of components to put in and monitoring devices that go back to your new water treatment plant, plus we have to build a line back through into Superior (the old town) to connect to our existing lines. Up front our District would have to expend $300,000.00 - 400,000.00. All of these items were laid out with Tom (Phare). We went through several alternatives to pay for this water. That's where Tom came back with the $75,000.00 reserve capacity fee and then an incremental charge for the water that's treated. Hornbostel: We just got through settling out of Court with Superior in terms of our water commitments. If we go back and 18