A $5 million wastewater treatment plant in Whittier, N.C., faces insolvency because its customer base never developed as planned.
The 200,000 gpd (design) plant was built for development that was supposed to happen along a U.S. Highway 441 corridor. After a decade, the plant is handling just 8,000 gpd with 36 customers – 25 residential and 11 commercial, according to a story in the Smoky Mountain News in Waynesville.
“There’s only enough money to keep operating, as is, for two more years,” the news account stated. “Then it’s decision time for the Tuckaseigee Water and Sewer Authority. TWSA, formed to oversee water
