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• • • Minutes, Regular Meeting, La Porte City Council January 6, 1982, Page 13 Askins: That suit was a constitutional attack on the creation of the district by a good number of cities, Katy and several cities in southeast Harris County. To my knowledge, it is now being appealed to the upper courts. Meza: As far as Pasadena having a new water contract with Houston, no, I was not aware of Pasadena having a new contract. Of course, I'm not involved with the City of Pasadena in the negotiations of their contracts. Now a feasibility sutdy or an in-depth study has not been done. A preliminary feasibility study was made back before I was mayor. At that particular time, that study told those folks on that Council there was a need. Those folks were desirous of doing something to prepare La Porte for whatever may happen, if we did have to go off ground water. Since then we have been in different meetings with the City of Houston, C.I.W.A. folks and with the subsi- dence district on it. The City of Houston, in fact, at one particular time, Mr. Corbin was there, agreed to sell the area down here water, in fact in a peculiar situation where there was not another treatment facility, and at that time the cost • of water was estimated to have been 18 cents. I understand that today it is somewhere around 22 cents per thousand gallons. The potential customers, well before the sale of anything we are going to have to create potential customers. We had a meeting back in 1979, if I remember correctly, at the Civic Center. I don't have all of the detailed work here in front of me. There were representatives from 13 different industries and representatives from several cities outside our immediate jurisdiction that were interested in paying a share of the cost for an in-depth feasibility study. However, the only way all of these could be brought together is through a water authority that would have the authority to do something, instead of the City of La Porte doing it with everybody else participating. As far as lines going to Fairmont Park, there are adequate lines going to Fairmont Park and there are already emergency connec- tions to Morgan's Point and BayMUD. The line going to Fairmont Park is a 16 inch line. The loop going around McCabe Road is a 12 inch line. If anybody else is desirous of purchasing water, I believe it has been the policy of any city that dis- tributes water, that the purchaser bear the cost of the line laid to that City. The City of La Porte presently pumps 3 mil- lion gallons of water per day. The La Porte Area Water Authority will not operate the La Porte Water Department. The City of La Porte will purchase water from the Authority. The City of Houston indicated to the City of La Porte that a proper water • authority would be allowed to distribute water to other entities in the surrounding area. That is potable water. As far as 40 year contracts, I'd have to ask legal counsel about that as far as the limits of a contractural agreement are concerned.