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50 Company would commit to expend $9,000,000 in Martinsville for additional facilities needed to meet their increased production. After considerable discussion of the matter Council voted to authorize me to prepare, through Wiley & Wilson (the City's consulting engineers), plans for the expansion of the City's Plant from 6 MGD to 8 MGD and to present a plan for financing the improvement at the June 10 meeting of Council. Immediately thereafter I authorized our consulting engineers to proceed with the plans and specifications in an effort to provide the facilities needed to meet the needs of these industries, paralleling the time frame schedule of their projected treatment needs. During Council's June 10, 1986, meeting, by memorandum dated June 3, 1986, I presented a proposed plan for financing future wastewater transmission and treatment facilities which was approved by Council. Current Status--Industrial Expansion Since the decision by Council to expand the City's Plant we have been advised by letter and through the news media that Pannill Knitting does not plan to expand their dyeing operations in Martinsville or Henry County and have purchased a building in Eden, North Carolina, which will be used to supplement their local dye facilities. We are advised, however, that their water consumption in Martinsville will not diminish and in fact will probably increase slightly through the end of 1986. We have also checked with Tultex and their projected needs will be as previously stated with the possibility of a slight increase. Bassett Walker Knitting's future estimated consumption remains the same as previOusly estimated according to Bob Grant of the PSA. Re-evaluation of Wastewater Facilities Needs and Capacity In consideration of Pannill Knitting Company's announcement not to expand their dye plant facilities in Martinsville we have re-evaluated the need for wastewater facilities for the area with specific reference to the question of whether the City's Plant should be expanded from 6 MGO to 8 MGD. Attached is a revised schedule of projected flows from Tultex, Pannill Knitting Company and Bassett Walker Knitting compared with capacity to be made available by January 1, 1989, under the City/County approved plan for meeting wastewater treatment needs through utilization of the existing plants at their designed capacity, construction of the Marrowbone Plant and the diversion facilities to the Upper Smith River Plant. As you will note from this revised schedule, there will be a treatment deficiency as of April 1987 of 1.3 MGO and a deficiency of 1.6 MGD by January 1, 1988, assuming a 1.5 MGD diversion to Koehler as planned. These deficiencies could be reduced if 2.8 MGO (maximum flow in Jones Creek line) rather than the 1.5 MGD as now planned could be diverted from 2