On the agenda for the Tuesday, Sept 17 Town Council meeting: the council is going to be voting to commit Jamestown to $6 million to help pay for PTRWA’s treatment plant expansion and filtration system – a system needed to filter the PFAS, 1,4-Dioxane, contaminants and forever chemicals that factories and landfills have discharged and leached into the “Deep River Waste Stream” for decades.
Greensboro is the biggest partner-owner (53%):
All of the partners are contractually committed to buy a certain amount of water from PTRWA every year, use it or lose it.
In 2022, Jamestown’s actual usage was 0.464 mgd, but the town is contractually obligated to purchase 1.775 mgd (which means the town spurchased 1.311 mgd of water that it didn’t use):
The Agenda Item states “the Town is obligated to participate in the updates to the facility to address emerging contaminants.”
In the agenda item (below), the town manager says the town has “elected to participate in the facility expansion to further ensure adequate water capacity” for Jamestown in the future (even though we all know it’s for Greensboro’s expansion — not Jamestown’s).
