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Kent County adopts amendment to add Millington regional wastewater plant to county plan
Summary
After a public hearing, the Kent County commissioners adopted a resolution adding a proposed Millington regional wastewater treatment plant to the county's Comprehensive Water and Sewerage Plan and authorized a project design path that would replace the town's existing plant with a county-owned facility.
Kent County commissioners voted to adopt Resolution 2025-11, approving an amendment to the 2018 Kent County Comprehensive Water and Sewerage Plan to include a proposed county regional wastewater treatment plant for Millington.
The county plan amendment, presented by Department of Public Works staff, describes a new county-owned wastewater treatment plant on a 6.6-acre tract adjacent to Maryland Route 291. The proposed facility would be built with an initial treatment capacity of 350,000 gallons per day, provide enhanced nutrient removal to meet state E-NR standards, be sited to reduce flood damage risk, and replace the town of Millington's existing plant. Under the proposal the town's plant would be demolished and replaced with a flood-protected pump station to convey flows to the county facility. The county plans to operate the plant and provide service to the town under an intermunicipal service agreement; the county is pursuing state and federal funding for design and construction.
Why it matters: Adoption of the comprehensive-plan amendment is a required step for the county to be eligible for state and federal design and construction funding. County staff said the change is needed to account for expected development near the Route 301/MD 291 interchange and to reduce conveyance costs associated with treating wastewater offsite.
County staff told commissioners the new plant would discharge to the Chester River at a downstream point from the current Millington outfall and would be built to higher state nutrient-removal standards. The deputy director of public works said early design work is about 90% complete and that locating the plant inside the proposed development area would serve existing and new development with lower conveyance costs.
The public hearing for the plan amendment was opened and closed during the meeting; staff noted that, unlike the other two legislative hearings on the agenda, the record for this public hearing closed at the end of the session because the board was expected to vote that night. A motion to adopt Resolution 2025-11 passed by voice vote; no roll-call tally was recorded in the meeting transcript.
What happens next: With the amendment adopted, the county will proceed with plans to seek state and federal funding for the design and construction of the Millington regional wastewater facility. Staff said the county will prepare an intermunicipal services agreement with the town of Millington and continue the permitting and design process.
Provenance: The public notice and staff presentation introducing the Millington amendment were read into the record at the public hearing and the resolution adoption motion and voice vote are recorded in the transcript.
