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21 TUESDAY NOVEMBER 15, 1983 - problem. Mayor Cole then went on record as placing the odor abatement goal (i. e., control process) first and foremost and (that) he will not support any further expansion of the City's treatment plant unless the pro- cess can be controlled. -- 2. In 1974, the City of Martinsville and the Henry County Public Service Authority entered into a contract or agree- ment by which the City's treatment plant became a part of the Metropolitan Regional Comprehensive Wastewater Disposal Plan. This plan, which was updated in June of 1977, has as one of its purposes, "To coordinate the pro- visions of sanitary sewage and industrial waste disposal systems by local governments ... II and through this agree- ment the City was able to obtain funding (for prior plant expansion from 4 mgd to 6 mgd and for secondary treat- ment facilities) in the amounts of $2,181,000 from the Environmental Protection Administration and $81,000 from the State of Virginia, which grants, coupled with the Henry County Public Service Authority's share of $728,000, made for a total of $2,990,000 toward the financing cost of the plant expansion and secondary treatment facilities. In citing this background information, Mayor Cole asked to be assured that both the City and the PSA are jointly consider- ing the regional capacity problem and needs in the develop- ment of long-range treatment -disposal plans. On behalf of Wiley & Wilson, Consulting Engineers, Mr. Crush reviewed the history of the City's water pollution control plant, emphasizing the fact that the original plant was designed to treat (based on available data and projections at that time) a predominance of domestic sewage and a relatively small amount of industrial wastes; however, even with plant expansion (cited hereinabove) and the installation of - secondary treatment facilities, it was unable--nor was it designed --to handle the increasing influx of industrial wastes (which require a much longer detention or tiholding" treatment process than do domestic wastes) brought about by recent industrial plant expansions in the area, particularly those of the local textile industry. Ih developing plans to meet the treatment needs of the City's plant, Mr. Crush com- pared the plant's existing flow with its projected flow (to year 2005), as follows: