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Council approves intergovernmental agreement to transfer KEMET sewer service to MetroConnex
Summary
To avoid costly replacement of an aging sewer line that serves KEMET, Simpsonville agreed to an intergovernmental arrangement transferring KEMET’s sewer service to MetroConnex; the change reduces the city's immediate maintenance and environmental risk but will forgo roughly $50,000 in annual sewer-collection revenue.
Administrator Graceley presented an intergovernmental-agreement option after staff determined a sewer line that serves KEMET (outside city limits but on Simpsonville’s collection system) is antiquated and would cost about $1.5 million to replace under I‑385. MetroConnex would accept responsibility and build a new connection on its side of the interstate at its expense; MetroConnex declined to cede capacity in return for no financial benefit.
Graceley and staff said the city currently generates about $50,000 annually from serving KEMET; however, replacing and then maintaining the aging interstate crossing would be costly and operationally difficult. Council member Hutchings moved to approve the MetroConnex intergovernmental agreement as presented; the motion carried unanimously, 7–0. Staff said the city would pay abandonment costs to plug the old pipe ends (estimated to be less than $100,000) once MetroConnex’s connection is operational.
Council characterized the agreement as the least costly, least risky path to avoid an environmental failure while staff pursues longer-term funding or infrastructure solutions.
