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Council grills administration over Miami fact‑finding trip as city readies water ban
Summary
Finance Committee members pressed the mayor and CFO about a fact‑finding trip to Aquaria (Dighton desalination) and a possible purchase; administration said the exploratory trip cost about $1,700 for staff, identified it as necessary for evaluating options, and DPW announced an outside‑watering ban effective Oct. 8 while ramping Aquaria to about 3.81 million gpd.
The Brockton Finance Committee on Oct. 6 spent more than an hour questioning the administration about an August fact‑finding trip to meet Aquaria representatives about a potential purchase of the Dighton desalination plant and a successor operating contract.
CFO Dr. Troy Clarkson said the trip was exploratory: "Our objective for the trip is to discuss the remaining years in the contract, begin to understand what a successor contract might look like and also explore the possibility of a purchase," he told the committee. Clarkson said the…
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