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~56 TUESDAY JANUARY 24, 1984 Water and Wastewater Disposal Plan" (M/R Plan), dating from September, 1973, clearly anticipates the expansion of the City's plant to serve the City and the southern part of Henry County, as required. More exactly, it proposes a 10.0 MGD capacity for the City's plant by 1990. 2. The M/R Plan does not contemplate the diversion of sewage from the City to the Koehler Plant. 3. The M/R Plan has no reference to a "third plant" on Marrowbone Creek or anywhere else in southern Henry County. (And neither did Overman's January, 1982 report.) However, what is more important, the City generally embraced the two-plant "regional" concept of Overman's report and lengthy negotiations followed between the City staff/engineers and the P.S.A. staff/engineers. The discussions finally revolved around the question of which of the two plants should be expanded first--since there was no short or mid-term need seen to expand both plants simultaneously. The which-first question was difficult to resolve because it appeared to the City, based on projected costs of diversion and buy-in and expansion of the Koehler plant, that such a move would be more expensive than expansion of the City's plant. Conversely, P.S.A. saw expansion of the City's plant to be more expensive for them, as a first step toward implementing the two-plant concept. We forced this issue on November 15, 1983, because it was apparent to me that the matter was stalemated and the capacity problem at our plant was ever-mounting. On that date, as you will recall, Wiley & Wilson briefed the Council fully and recommended specifically that the City proceed at our plant with (a) existing plant improvements and additional odor control measures, and (b) expansion from 6.0 MGD to 8.0 MGD. This recommendation was based on a couple of vital assumptions--that P.S.A. would honor the current sewer agreement and pay its share of the digester and odor control improvements (just as they did the "interim" improvements) and that P.S.A. would sooner or later find it necessary to buy and guarantee availability of its 1/3 portion of the expanded capacity. The Council took the matter under advisement, but at this point and for the first time the Henry County Board of Supervisors interceded. This took the form of a proposed meeting, held on December 19, 1983, between the Council, the Board of P.S.A. and the Board of Supervisors. The meeting was ostensibly to discuss "an old plan involving the building of a third sewage treatment plant south of the City somewhere in the vicinity of Leatherwood Creek". The letter of invitation went ahead to say, "The possible construction of a third plant is a relatively new concept and is definitely long range in nature. It should not be construed as interfering or supplementing the current discussions and