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TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1986 -- Pursuant to Vice-Mayor Severt's request, City Manager Brown presented a "status" report entitled, "City/County Wastewater Facilities", in which Mr. Brown reviewed developments which culminated in an agreement between the City of Martinsville and the Henry County Public Service Authority by which it was determined the City- County wastewater treatment needs, as projected, might best be met, and the estimated costs thereof, and ways and means by which the City might finance its share of said costs, details of which are recorded in the minutes of City Council's meeting held October 9, 1984 (pages 442 through 445, Minute Book No. 24). City Manager Brown reported that improvements to the City's wastewater (sewage) treatment plant were completed as of December 31, 1985, and (that) the Jones Creek Pumping-Diversion facilities should be completed by August 11, 1986, for which latter project the Henry County Public Service Authority let a contract in December of 1985, and on which project work began January 13, 1986. Mr. Brown further informed Council, that, because of recently-developed plans of three local major textile industries to in- crease their dyeing operations considerably within the next year or two years, ".....it is imperative that the construction of the Marrowbone Plant be expedited to provide treatment capacity" for this additional waste, with the capacity of said plant (to be owned and operated by the Public Service Authority) to be increased be- yond the initially-projected 4 MGD capacity, for which a permit application was filed by the PSA on October 11, 1985, with the State Water Control Board. Associated with the need to expedite and enlarge treatment facilities, City Manager Brown pointed out, is the on-going effort by both Henry County and the City of Martinsville, through the Martinsville-Henry County Economic Development Corporation, toward attracting new industry to the area. City Manager Brown indicated that local industrial treatment needs can be met if the PSA's Marrowbone treatment plant can be "on line" by late 1988. Vice-Mayor Severt expressed real concern over the fact that ".....eighteen months have gone by....." (since the agreed-upon development of ways and means to -, ~ . 241