Commissioners on the Eugene Water & Electric Board are reconsidering the size of a potential new water treatment plant after seeing financial details.
At its July meeting, EWEB commissioners reconsidered two options: A plant that would treat the utility’s full 19.4 million gallon per day allotment of Willamette River water, or a larger 30 million gallon per day plant that would allow it to seek more rights to river water and possibly become a distributor to nearby utilities who lack the water their communities need to grow.
But, at the Aug. 4 meeting, when commissioners were presented with how the 30 MGD plant would stress EWEB’s finances and possibly leave it unable to borrow for other projects, they voted unanimously to direct staff to proceed with further study of the smaller, 19.4 MGD plant…