Excelsior Springs is continuing its decades-long business relationship with Missouri-American Water Co. (MAWC).

On Oct. 3 at the Hall of Waters, the City Council approved a five-year agreement for the city to continue selling water to the MAWC. As Public Works Director Chad Birdsong stated in a Sept. 29 memo to city leaders and City Manager Molly McGovern reiterated shortly before the vote, Excelsior Springs has supplied the Parkville-based company water for 22 years.

The relationship allows the city to supply Lawson with water, Birdsong and McGovern explained.

Per the agreement, Excelsior Springs will provide a daily minimum of 137,000 gallons of water, with an 8.25-million-gallon-per-month cap.

“Amounts in excess of 8,250,000 per month may be supplied at the sole discretion of the seller and shall be billed at the rate in effect at the time of delivery,” the agreement states.

Some flexibility, however, is allowed. “In the event of an extended shortage of water, or the supply of water available to the seller is otherwise diminished over an extended period of time, the supply of water to the purchaser shall be reduced or diminished in the same ratio or proportion as the supply to the seller’s residential customers is reduced or diminished,” the agreement states.