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Atoka reviews new inter-municipal wastewater agreement, secures larger share of expanded lagoon capacity
Summary
Town attorney and staff summarized a new three-party agreement with Munford and Brighton that recalculates capacity shares for a planned expansion of the regional wastewater lagoon and adds safeguards including moratorium triggers, a 40-year depreciation term for new capacity and annual percentage reviews.
Atoka officials reviewed a proposed three-party wastewater agreement with Munford and Brighton that recalculates each town’s share of a planned expansion at the regional lagoon and adds new governance safeguards.
The town’s attorney, Amber (Town Attorney), walked the board through the 25-page draft, describing changes from an older perpetual agreement dating to 1985 and the replacement of multiple legacy contracts with a single modern agreement. “We incorporated the agreement between Atoka and Brighton as to the maintenance and the usage of the Brighton force main that connects it to Atoka,” she said.
The new contract ties each town to a defined percentage of the expanded 1,000,000-gallon capacity increase and establishes that Atoka’s negotiated share will be…
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