Government
BY ANNA MANESS
City of Georgetown terminates water supply agreement
Six months after the city of Georgetown entered into an agreement with GateHouse Water LLC to expand its raw water resources, both parties have mutually terminated the agreement due to technical and nancial issues, according to the city’s website. What we know Georgetown City Council members unanimously approved authorizing City Manager David Morgan to sign the GateHouse Water termination during a May 27 meeting, with council members Shawn Hood and Ben Stewart absent. “The city and [GateHouse] mutually agreed that [GateHouse] did not have a feasible nancial and operational plan to deliver the water under the conditions of the contract,” a city o cial said in an email to Community Impact. “The city is looking for ways to leverage our nancing and engineering resources to buy out [GateHouse’s] assets and develop the project.” Assets could include wells, groundwater leases
and production or transportation permits, the o cial said. To date, the city has not paid GateHouse Water any money, and no fees are associated with the termination, according to the city’s website. How we got here During a special-called meeting Dec. 30, council members approved a 30-year agreement with GateHouse Water to purchase 16.5 million gallons per day of groundwater from the Simsboro Aquifer in Lee County. City Council was expected to give nal approval to the GateHouse contract by this summer, Community Impact previously reported. The city has two other water agreements. One with EPCOR would bring 32-62.5 mgd of treated groundwater to Georgetown by 2030. Another with Recharge Water will assess the cost of a phased delivery of up to 31 mgd per year of groundwater from the Simsboro Aquifer.
Looking ahead The city has existing agreements with EPCOR and Recharge Water, and o cials said they will continue to pursue additional water supply. Current water Water from agreements
200M
The terminated Gatehouse Water
150M
agreement would have
allowed the city to purchase 16.5 million gallons per day from the Simsboro Aquifer in Lee County.
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Water agreements
SOURCE: CITY OF GEORGETOWN COMMUNITY IMPACT
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