Pumping Costs: The Gift that Keeps on Taking

• If they offer to build it for free, don’t take it. The pumping costs will drive you broke

• If you build it (pump from Columbia), you won’t be able to afford to turn it on, but you won’t be able to afford not to turn it on because of standby power costs.

• …none penciled out

• No crop…

• About ten fold increase in Yak Proj. O&M