Plymouth Village Water & Sewer District opens public hearing on 2025 budget, proposes multiple capital warrant articles and 5–7% rate increase

PLYMOUTH, N.H. — The Plymouth Village Water and Sewer District opened a public hearing Jan. 14 on the district's proposed 2025 budget and a package of capital warrant articles that together seek state and federal grant and loan funding and would support multiple water and wastewater projects.

The hearing, opened by the chair at 5:05 p.m., covered eight warrant articles describing projects including Highland Street distribution work and reservoir shortfall remediation (roughly $6.3 million cited), a 2.5-million-gallon low-service water storage tank (about $7 million), replacement of Well No. 1 (about $1 million), a wastewater treatment plant master plan (about $315,000), electrical and HVAC upgrades at the wastewater plant (about $3.5 million), solids-handling/sludge-drying improvements (about $7 million) and headworks/influent pump-station upgrades (about $7 million). District staff said the articles are being posted so the district can apply for financing and grant packages, not as a binding commitment to construct every item.

Jason (Director of Operations) provided the technical descriptions and condition summaries for the capital projects, saying the Reservoir Road tank (installed…