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Council clarifies city water authority after questions about outside facility and potential ICE-processing use
Summary
Council staff outlined city rules: a facility in the MRGA already served with an 800-gallon allocation would likely require a service upgrade if occupancy rises; transfers into the MRGA require mayor-and-council approval and allocations move with property sales.
HAGERSTOWN — City staff told the council that a recently purchased facility located outside the municipal limits but inside the municipal growth area (MRGA) already has a purchased allocation (800 gallons/day), but that an occupancy change to house people would likely require a meter and service upgrade and a formal site-plan review.
Nancy, a water department staffer, said the property currently has a 2-inch domestic turbine meter with continuous flow capacity near 200 gallons per minute and intermittent capacity about 250 gpm, and that "a 2 inch domestic meter likely would not be sufficient" if the facility were to house…
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