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COMMISSIONER SCHMUCKER QUESTIONED MR. MCALLISTER ABOUT THE <br />AGE OF THE PIPE SECTIONS AND AS TO WHETHER HE FELT THEY WOULD BE REPRE— <br />SENTATIVE SAMPLES. HE ALSO ASKED ABOUT THE SERVICE LINES. <br />MR, MCALLISTER STATED THAT HE HAS BEEN WITH THE COMPANY 15 <br />YEARS AND KNOWS THE PIPE IS THAT OLD. HE ANSWERED THAT THE SERVICE <br />LINES WERE 997 GALVANIZED. <br />COMMISSIONER LOY ASKED IF THE METER READER IS AN EMPLOYEE <br />OF MID—FLORIDA OR IF THIS IS A CONTRACT SERVICE, AND MR MCALLISTER <br />STATED THAT IT IS A CONTRACT SERVICE. <br />COMMISSIONER LOY NOTED THAT MR, MCALLISTER HAD TESTIFIED <br />AT THE LAST HEARING THAT HE CONDUCTS A FLUSHING PROGRAM BETWEEN THE <br />21sT AND 25TH OF EACH MONTH BUT IN DIFFERENT AREAS ON A MONTHLY BASIS <br />AND ASKED WHAT HE HAD DONE IN THE AREA OF COLONIAL TERRACE THE LAST <br />OF AUGUST THAT MADE THE WATER CLEAR UP. <br />MR, MCALLISTER ANSWERED THAT HE HAD DONE NOTHING DIFFERENT <br />THAN HE HAS BEEN DOING,; THAT HE FLUSHED THE ENTIRE SYSTEM ON TWO <br />DIFFERENT NIGHTS BUT NOT EVERY SINGLE LINE. <br />DISCUSSION CONTINUED ON THE FLUSHING OF THE SYSTEM, AND COM— <br />MISSIONER LOY NOTED THAT THE CUSTOMERS WERE NOT NOTIFIED WHEN THE <br />SYSTEM WAS RECENTLY FLUSHED, AND THE WATER WAS OFF ALMOST ALL NIGHT. <br />MR, MCALLISTER SAID THEY WILL BE NOTIFIED NEXT TIME, AND <br />POINTED OUT THAT THE WATER WAS OFF AND ON ALL NIGHT, BUT YOU LOSE <br />WATER PRESSURE WHEN IT IS OFF IN SPOTS. <br />COMMISSIONER LOY REQUESTED THAT THE SECTIONS OF PIPE RE— <br />FERRED TO BE BROUGHT IN FOR THE BOARD TO SEE. <br />CHAIRMAN WODTKE REQUESTED MR. CARROLL WRIGHT TO COME FOR— <br />WARD. <br />COMMISSIONER SIEBERT NOTED THAT AS REFLECTED IN THE MIN— <br />UTES OF FORMER MEETINGS, MR WRIGHT ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS ALLUDED TO <br />THE PROBLEM BEING IN THE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND NOT IN THE RAW WATER. <br />MR WRIGHT STATED THAT AT THE TIME HE WAS BEFORE THE BOARD <br />IN MID—FLORIDAIS RATE CASE IN 1973, THEY ADMITTED THAT THERE WERE SOME <br />WATER QUALITY PROBLEMS,WHICH WAS A SURPRISE TO HIM. HE CONTINUED <br />THAT HE LATER TOLD THE BOARD THAT THEIR ENGINEERING STAFF FELT THE <br />PROBLEM COULD BE SOLVED BY THE PURCHASE AND.INSTALLATION OF A.WATER <br />SOFTENING SYSTEM, THE REFURBISHING OF THE OLD SYSTEM, AND THE INTRO— <br />DUCTION OF CERTAIN CHEMICALS. <br />MR. WRIGHTSAIDHE DID NOT BELIEVE HE d <br />15 <br />SEP 2 7197.7 <br />