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Resident urges utilities committee review after documents show sewer-plant-capacity limits and $15 million upgrade estimate
Summary
A utilities-committee member told the board that regulatory cuts reduced the plant's daily permitted flow from 640,000 to 320,000 gallons and cited a 2021 feasibility study estimating a $15 million full upgrade; he requested the utilities committee convene to verify facts and consider a town hall.
A member of the utilities committee told the board the community faces a pressing wastewater-capacity issue and asked the council to convene the utilities committee to examine his documentation. "We set it 640,000 gallons... The ecology cut it down to 320,000 gallons in 2013," the participant said, describing a long-running discrepancy in permitted capacity and a 2021 feasibility study he said estimated about $15 million for a full upgrade.
The participant asked the board to authorize a utilities-committee meeting to challenge or confirm his facts and to decide whether the issue merits a town hall. He warned that a lower state limit could trigger a building moratorium: "If the state reduces that level, it could be could cause a building moratorium here," he said. Board leadership agreed to consider scheduling the committee meeting and emphasized the need for a fact-based, moderated public conversation if the committee deems it warranted.
