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I TEMPORARY EMERGENCY 14ATER SERVICE AGREEMENT MID -FLORIDA UTILITIES, INC., a Florida corporation, (Mid - Florida), the CITY OF VERO BEACH, a municipal corporation of the State of Florida, (City), and INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA, (County), hereby agree as follows, this day of April, 1978: WHEREAS, Mid -Florida provides from its own well -fields water to a service territory adjacent to and south of the city limits of.the City; and, WHEREAS, Mid -Florida is experiencing customers' demand for water in excess of its well field capacity at this time due to the lack of sufficient rainfall to recharge said well fields; and, WHEREAS, Mid -Florida and the County have requested that the City supply water to Mid -Florida as temporary emergency service; and, WHEREAS, the City agrees to supply water only under the terms and conditions as are stated herein;. NOW, THEREFORE, the parties hereto -agree as follows: 1. The City shall..have no responsibility to provide any services to the service territory of Mid -Florida except as specified in this agreement. 2. The City makes no guaranty of water quality, availability of any quantities of water at any pressure for any usage whatsoever, including fire fighting. 3. Any water to be provided hereunder by the City to Mid - Florida shall be subject to the availability of said water in the City'.s water system utilizing only the City's present well fields and present water treatment plant, and shall be available only when said capacity, or any part thereof, can be provided by the City to Mid - Florida without requiring any of the City's current or future water .customers to restrict or curtail, even slightly, their usage of City water. 4e Mid -Florida hereby grants the City all rights needed to connect to the Mid -Florida system at the three.(3) locations noted below. 5. Mid -Florida assumes all responsibility for any and all damage, loss, or destruction to any part or all of Mid -Florida's APR 19 1978 - BOOK A f '34 PAurF 3 S