Hold on, let me go back to my notes.

You don't have to go to the slide.

I just needed to do this.

Yeah, yeah.

So okay, so during the fiscal year, it's per year.

So during the fiscal year, there are about 12,000 acre feet of water were pumped, right?

Yes.

But we're and we're currently permitted that we learned from Maria for about 26,000 acre feet per year.

And so I I wanted to make sure that I'm understanding that correctly because often we are asked about our you know, water capacity and are we pulling too much water and will we have water for years to come?

Um and so this is letting us know that right now we are producing less than half of the water per year that we're currently permitted to produce.

Is that an accurate summary of these two presentations?

Uh that is correct.

And of the 34 wells that she referenced, we'll have to continue to drill those wells uh as we get up to that 26,000 acre feet.

Uh and then that way we kind of take from little straws from different uh areas in there.

And uh but that is correct.

We right now we're producing uh and we report to the Office of the State Engineer in a calendar year.

So if you ever see the numbers not matched, that's what it could potentially be.

Uh but we're producing uh doing a little over 12,000 acre feet uh per calendar year with our current population.

Uh I don't know that we can double on population, but

uh

because we'll have commercial, we'll have schools, we have etc.

in

there.

But uh but yes, that is correct.

And then even on the wastewater slides, like I said, the the there's a certain percentage uh we're meeting our uh return flow back to the river too.

And again, direct and the difference we can inject or reuse however uh need be along the way in our system.

Okay, I think that and that's just just for me, it was a helpful summary for just for the two presentations to put those together as we look at the future growth of the city, right?

That's part of what we need to understand through this presentation is thinking about how the city can and should grow and what our water needs are currently, what our water resources are currently, and then what our water needs will be in the future.

Um so thank you for that uh clarification.

I think that's all I'll bother you with for now, but I know where to find you.

Mr.

Mayor, members of the governing body, I think Councillor Colbert's uh I don't want to take away any additional questions, but I think

that

you know you'll learn more about that from New Mexico Tech and the hydrology.

Um one of the things that you know in Maria mentioned the conservation efforts of of the city and you know, way back in the 80s, um our zoning ordinances required at least 10 percent of the lot be commercial uh be sawed or grass, right?

And so we had something that wasn't exactly in favor of conservation, um but it you know, through the efforts of conservation and and monitoring through a 40-year um water plan, one of the the figures that people like Jason at MED and OSC look at is GPCD gallons per day per

capita day.

Yeah, per capita day.

Um and it's you know steadily marched down from about 120, so 120 gallons per person to less than 100.

It's somewhere, it's in 90 somewhere between 95 and 90, 98.

I'm not gonna give you the exact number because I don't remember it off top of my head.

But so even you know, as population has grown, as businesses growing, the actual usage has gone down, and it's through a lot of things, and it's part of that's change in human behavior as well because we've come more conscious of uh being smarter with our water.

Thank

you, Councillor

Cobrath, Counselor Mann.

This is complicated, but you've done an excellent job of explaining it.

Um I believe the citizens of the city should have a great deal of confidence in what you've done, um and I'm uh confident that if we're we're ahead to 2041, um there is little need to be concerned.

Um I've it's dispelled a lot of my concerns that I've had as I've um been getting new to this job.

Um so thank you.

Thank you for your excellent work.

Um I'm grateful my kids on watching today because they think those um those water uh storage tanks are dinosaur houses, so you would have crushed their dreams.

Um with that I yield.

No dinosaurs.

No, thank

you.

Anything further from the board or council hearing none, thank you, Director Gregoris.

Let's take a five-minute break or a seven-minute group break and reconvene at 5.15.

They're not listening, so

if

you're gonna have