On Wednesday, the town of Canton signed an agreement to purchase a section of its decommissioned Pactiv Evergreen papermill.
Canton is purchasing 35 acres of property, including warehouses and a chipyard, from the current proprietors of its decommissioned papermill site for $12.5 million dollars. The land was owned by Two Banks Development.
The town formerly used the mill’s wastewater treatment plant for free. The mill’s plant, however, was in a vulnerable area next to the Pigeon River, and flooded several times: twice in 2004, in 2021 during Hurricane Fred, and 2024 during Hurricane Helene. The new plant will be built behind the old one, on higher and less- vulnerable ground, extending previous connections to the town’s pipes…