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St. Joseph County approves $114 million water and sewer deal to serve Amazon Data Services site
Summary
The county commission unanimously approved an ADS (Amazon Data Services) water and sewer infrastructure agreement totaling about $114 million, with water to be turned over to New Carlisle and sewer to the City of South Bend; county officials said taxpayers will not bear the debt and latecomer fees could total roughly $11.44 million over 10 years.
St. Joseph County commissioners on Aug. 6 approved a negotiated water and sewer infrastructure agreement with ADS (Amazon Data Services) to design and build utilities serving the IEC development area, county staff said.
Bill Shelow, a county economic development official, told the commission the contract “in dollar amount perspective, is a $114,000,000 contract,” including about $62,700,000 for water work and $51,300,000 for sewer work. Shelow said ADS will provide funds and that project expenses to date can be reimbursed; future expenses will be paid either directly or via structured payments to participating companies. He described latecomer…
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