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pr - DEC 111979 ® rr�Ij� BOOK �� PA&E,G1 BUT THESE ARE REQUIRED OF FINISHED WATER AND THIS IS RAW WATER. HE BELIEVED THEIR TREATMENT PROCESS WILL REDUCE THE ALPHA AND BETA AND NOTED THIS IS RADIOLOGICAL. MS. ROEN FELT THAT MR. VAUGHN IS TRYING TO SHOW THAT THE RAW WATER MEETS THE APPLICABLE STANDARDS, AND IF THE RAW WATER DOES, THEN THE FINISHED WATER SURELY MUST. SHE NOTED THAT THEY NOW HAVE BOTH A RAW WATER TEST AND A FINISHED WATER TEST AVAILABLE. COMMISSIONER Loy COMMENTED THAT THEY SAY ALL MAINS IN AN AREA WHERE THERE IS NO HOUSING WILL BE ELIMINATED FROM THE RATE BASE; THEN THEY SAY ANY PORTION OF LINES FRONTING VACANT LOTS IN A HIGH DENSITY AREA ARE CONSIDERED TO BE USED AND USEFUL. COMMISSIONER SIEBERT ASKED IF THEY FELT THEIR FINISHED PRODUCE' WILL MEET ALL STANDARDS FOR PRIMARY DRINKING WATER IN 1930. MR. VAUGHN FELT CONFIDENT THAT IT WILL. HE EXPLAINED HOW SAMPLES ARE COMPOSITED ON A QUARTERLY BASIS FOR ONE YEAR, AND THE ANALYSIS IS NOT MADE UNTIL AFTER ALL FOUR COMPOSITES ARE RECEIVED, WHICH TAKES A YEAR. CHAIRMAN WODTKE DISCUSSED PERCENTAGE FIGURES RELATING TO USED AND USEFUL It FOR THE SEWER PLANT AND THE WATER PLANT, AND MR. VAUGHN STATED THAT THE WATER PLANT WAS 56.9% USED AND USEFUL, WHILE THEY ONLY CONSIDERED 43% OF THE SEWER PLANT USED AND USEFUL TO BE CONSIDERED IN THE RATE BASE. THE CHAIRMAN INQUIRED ABOUT WHERE IT SAYS "THE REMAINING 38.9% TO BE CONSIDERED HELD FOR FUTURE USE," AND MR. VAUGHN EXPLAINED THAT RELATES TO THE SEWAGE COLLECTION MAINS, NOT THE PLANT. ATTORNEY ROEN CALLED CHARLES FANCHER, JR., UTILITY RATE CASE COORDINATOR, AS HER NEXT WITNESS AND SUBMITTED COPIES OF HIS PROPOSED TESTIMONY, WHICH IS HEREBY MADE A PART OF THE MINUTES. 16