1 miramar beach resort and bungalows project 2 - Santa Barbara ...

1 MR. BIERIG: It's safe to say you have
2 capacity and facilities to serve this property as is?
3 MS. GABRIEL: That's correct. This reduction
4 in the flow of sewage actually helps that situation. I
5 know there were some questions at the last planning
6 commission hearing about our capacity, and I thought I
7 might take just a moment to state those facts for the
8 record.
9 Our plant capacity is 1.5 million gallons per
10 day, and even if we took that conservatively and said,
11 "Once we're at 75 percent of capacity, we should start
12 looking at plan expansion" -- well, if we look at past
13 four years' flows to the treatment plant, including wet
14 and dry weather, our flows on average are .96 million
15 gallons per day. So that's 960,000 gallons per day. If
16 we take the sewage flows proposed from the Caruso
17 project at 35,835 gallons per day, that only gets us to
18 995,000 gallons per day.
19 MR. BIERIG: And that's what percentage of
20 your capacity?
21 MS. GABRIEL: That leaves us with over
22 129,000 gallons of extra capacity before we even reach
23 75 percent.
24 MR. BIERIG: Okay. What has your historic or
25 your increases in your use -- excuse me -- in effluent
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