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easy to wholesale water back and forth the way this is to be set up. Wastewater is not tied together like that right now, but Director Pinto believed as time goes on, we will be looking closer and closer at doing that. City Manager Little also commented that some day as things change, what staff has done from a technical standpoint would make it easy to have a water and sewer authority. Director Pinto advised that there is room in the agreement so that if there is some isolated special condition, by agreement of the City and County, we can service each other's customers. That summarizes the proposed boundary line, and what this leads to is the wastewater and what the county is looking for in the south part of the county. Commissioner Bird left the meeting at 9:15 o'clock A.M. Director Pinto noted that it is very obvious the County is going to have to do something on its own to accommodate growth in the south of the county. He advised that we have sent notice to GDC that we want to pursue purchase of their treatment facility, and if that does not come about, we will be building a treatment plant right near them. We also have hired the firm of Post, Buckley to do a countywide master plan on reuse of effluent. The first phase would be the south county, and Director Pinto believed we all have the same problem there. There is concern about the City's effluent going into the river, and we certainly don't want to go into the river. He knew the City has done some work on looking at reuse of their effluent, and he believed at some point in time there can be interconnec- tions for reuse of that effluent. All the irrigation we get out of the use of that effluent, we lessen what is taken out of the drinking aquifer. We are in the permitting stages for a major force main to run from the City plant south on the Boulevard and on U.S.I; it is designed ultimately to turn the flow completely 5 APR 2 0 1989 POOK76 PAGE 661