I have to say it's outstanding that that was approved. I know that there were some hoops to jump through and some conversations to be had, but the fact that it was approved to be repurposed in this fashion, I think is uh definitely a win for North St. Paul because it's a significant expenditure.

the deficiency in storage, water storage I'll call it, right? We have two water towers total in the city and I might need Ron to pipe in with some facts and figures here if I get stuck. But um we're we're talking about the north tower and um we've known the city has known that there was a a shortage or a deficiency a shortfall in overall total storage uh since well before my time.

And so looking at the upfront capital cost of the tower plus the ongoing maintenance. So every guessing on this cycle, but every 10 to 15 years, it's necessary to um strip and paint sometimes both the outside and the inside or just the outside and kind of refinish that tower. And so with a composite tower, there is a little bit less of painting and repainting that needs to happen. general ongoing maintenance is less costly and less um I don't know potentially problematic from a coordination standpoint or trying to stay on top of it.

the idea of using it's Tower Park, right, Ron? Yeah. So, so the that we call it Tower Park. So that's that area um that surrounds the existing tower. We have some playground equipment there. I think there might be some other amenities or maybe it's just kind of passive green space in that whole area. We also have a whole lot of uh cellular wireless companies that lease space on the existing tower there.

So, uh, typically on a water tower, you have one year of design and one year of building. And because we're talking about then demolishing the old tower afterwards, I guess I I can't say right now for sure that it would all happen in one year from a construction standpoint. There might be some things that spill into year two from a construction standpoint.

we are within uh 10 state standards for we don't have any areas within the city that fall below um kind of that recommended lowest range of pressure... We don't have a pressure deficiency in the city.

it was creating problems by solving problems, I guess, is the ultimate outcome, if I can kind of describe it like that. and and so that that didn't really go anywhere, but we did look at it.

the wells just basically fill the tower. And them wells can fill the tower on the south side of town, too. the way our system is set up,

it basically it gives us a low tower alarm, a high tower alarm. Uh, it they're in all of our wells. It tells us when our wells are pumping, when they're when they're not pumping... But that SCADA system monitors all that. And if we get a low tower alarm, we get a text, we get an email, we get a call, and every guy on our crew gets that.

it's supervisory control and data acquisition. Okay. But it's the industry standard for basically if there's a lot of talk out there about smart cities right now. SCADA was the original smart cities uh thing that that everybody adopted decades ago to try to help automate and understand and control their infrastructure systems whe whether that's wastewater or water. It's been around for some time and it's pretty sophisticated technology truly.