A big issue for us is that we just can't simply afford to do all of this by ourselves. |
The fact that we have such a small customer base continues to be our biggest weakness here. Take a place like Richmond, where they've got one treatment plant, and 100,000 customers - and here we're trying to do four treatment plants with 7,000 customers. The cost impact per customer is significantly higher for small facilities. |
We have to be careful that our rates don't get to the point where they're unaffordable. |