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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 it*8 unrestricted $|3 Q. Then you are referring to a city that has meters in answering my question. A. That's right* Q. Were you taking into consideration when you answered ay question also that this Is a water dumping point for the Union Pacific, and that that water goes into the sewer — they dump and replenish water on the railroad line? A* I don't really know the quantity of that off-hand$ I don't know what that quantity is, Q* You answered Mr, Bennett's question— one question he put to you— in this manner, if I recall— that if the rate ©f usage exceeded the rate of discharge from the underground water &Kpply, it would necessitate the City's going to an outside source for water* What did you mean—did you hare any specific period in Bind? A. The growth of any city is limited hp the water, and the safety yield here has been reached, and it means that if the City is to continue growing in the same manner it has in the past few years, it will be necessary to obtain a supplemental supply. Q. At some time in the future. A. It should be dime as soon as possible because the yield Is being exceeded now, Q. As a matter of fact, according to Mr. Robinson's testi­mony, the discharge was lower in 19**9 than it was in 19>*S. A. t think a few hundred acre feet.