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Shelby County Health Department

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• Memphis City Council Committee Meetings: October 20, 2026 6:19

  where we're adding new street lights and this goes back to replace ones that again have been damaged or knocked down um and are no longer serviceable across the territory. The next request is for $1.7 million over 24 months. We have about an 11 million budget for purchasing wire. This is $1.7 million of that. Uh this is purchasing uh this is the high voltage wire that we use for distribution of electric power across our system. It's 405,000 ft just or 405,000 linear feet. That is 76 miles of wire that comes on these large spools that we will use um to both extend services and also replace services when it is time to replace the wires in our distribution system either because of failure or because of age. Subject to your question that concludes my presentation for the consent agenda items. So this is the pollution control water quality control program. This is with the Shelby County Health Department. This is allows them to do the monitoring. Let me talk since you asked the question about Caesar. We have two programs, two contracts that we um have. One is with Caesar and that is we're in the second uh second phase of that study. We provide all of the data that we have on our wells. They look at all of our wells. They help us determine where we can position wells uh so we don't introduce hazards into at the at the macro level. We also have the USGS contract and they're doing more micro level with the specific placement of wells in and around our well fields so that we don't hazard any contaminants in there. So two contracts Caesar has a broad ranging one that helps us overall manage and USGS is looking specifically

• Memphis City Council Committee Meetings: October 20, 2026 8:20

  that is the [clears throat] Shelby County Health Department. Caesar has access to all of our information. They have, you know, free access because we have a contract with them and and so we provide all of our data. We do not have access to the private well data. The Shelby County Health Department has that information. And so I think that's where they're looking for that data. And I don't know that it's uh there's any real limitation here. I think we just need to do a better job of coordinating across the county on that kind of thing. So, but we're not we're not in the middle of that engagement.

• Memphis City Council Committee Meetings: October 20, 2026 8:20

  that is the [clears throat] Shelby County Health Department. Caesar has access to all of our information. They have, you know, free access because we have a contract with them and and so we provide all of our data. We do not have access to the private well data. The Shelby County Health Department has that information. And so I think that's where they're looking for that data. And I don't know that it's uh there's any real limitation here. I think we just need to do a better job of coordinating across the county on that kind of thing. So, but we're not we're not in the middle of that engagement.