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David Persinger

28:39 - 29:09

“that's significantly more. That's essentially what the capacity of the Eklutna Water Treatment Facility is designed That's the maximum it can push through that.”
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So that's significantly more. That's essentially what the capacity of the Eklutna Water Treatment Facility is designed That's the maximum it can push through that. We do see in the summertime at times when we have hot, dry weather, we'll see spikes up into the 50 million gallons a day, but that's usually a very short duration for several hours, and that's where we use our supplemental sources like Ship Creek and the deep wells that we have.

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