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<br />from Shoshone. We're also working with Excel Energy on Redlands Power Company, down at <br />Grand Junction at the Gunnison River, where they have power production for going through <br />_? _ capability and for pumping purposes for water. And they are looking at restructuring <br />their contracts with Redland to get through this with minimal economic impact to the irrigation <br />and power companies, the Redland Power Company, and the district is looking at how much pump <br />analysis on those costs. So Excel is going to take a bit of a hit to manage, to help the state manage <br />the resources that we have here, recognizing that power is important, but also water is very <br />important too. We appreciate what some of them want to do with it. <br /> <br />Joe - And they have _?_limitations going in and out of those stations, and as long as they have <br />enough water available to put with their permanent _?_' <br /> <br />- Actually, they've taken those down. They're actually reducing their capability. <br /> <br />Joe - I understand. But they're complying with the permitted temperatures. <br /> <br />- Shoshone is, and Oakrun (?) is. Some power plant predates Federal Power <br />Administration, not just FERC, and they will do nothing to change that. <br /> <br />Question - Is it possible to fmd out what the energy consumption was, say, for the last 20 summers <br />(?). It could relate, understanding the number of people who live here, it would be tricky to see <br />how much the power consumption has varied, because, like in the late '80s, early 90'S we had a <br />couple of very severe heat waves that could be nice prototypes to see how much consumption <br />there was.. .(inaudible). <br /> <br />Brad - Let's move along to Health. <br /> <br />Carl Norbeck - I'm Carl Norbeck, Water Quality Control Division, and the impacts that we're <br />concerned with are related to those facilities that we regulate. So that would be 2,000 water <br />treatment plants, and the 1,500 wastewater treatment plants. The range of problems we might <br />anticipate with extreme low flows could go all the way from the minimal end of operational <br />difficulties, to the more extreme end of concentration of pollutants in the streams. So the impacts <br />that you might see could also range from the minimum level of taste and odor problems associated <br />with drinking water all the way to water-borne illnesses for people who happen to be recreating in <br />those segments downstream of a wastewater treatment plant, where you don't have that final last <br />dilution of the effluent that's coming out of that treatment plant. The things that we are doing, by <br />way of our actions, we're putting together a general press release that will at least highlight this <br />issue to the public, but very carefully crafted so as not to alarm anyone in terms of this situation, <br />because we haven't seen these impacts, and we may not see them. What we're trying to do is <br />simply anticipate them so that we can have a response in place. We're also putting together an <br />information piece for public water systems, so that if you have this type of an issue, this type of a <br />problem, here's an appropriate response to address that, here's resources that you might look to <br />assist you in that effort, and the third thing that we're trying to do is to put together some early <br />warning stuff, so that we are working with.. .it's good interface between quality and quantity, so <br />we are working with USGS and the State Engineer's Office in terms of their flow gage system, so <br />that we can anticipate those segments. They are a concern to us, as far as having wastewater <br /> <br />33 <br />