A water services agreement that would see Bossier City supply between 1.8 to 13.5 million gallons of water daily to an undisclosed “project” in north Bossier Parish is slated for a final vote at the Tuesday city council meeting at 3 p.m.
If Mayor Tommy Chandler’s administration gets approval to enter the agreement, the implications would be massive. To provide a sense of scale, the average American uses about 82 gallons of water per day at home, according to the EPA. That means a very rough estimate would suggest the agreement is for enough water for the daily home use of between 21,951 and 164,634 people, except this supply is for just one property. The deal is similar in size to the city’s multimillion-gallon agreement with the Port of Caddo-Bossier.
However, since it passed a preliminary council vote on Dec. 2, officials in Bossier City Mayor Tommy Chandler’s administration haven’t answered any questions about the agreement, and the ordinance leaves out a number of details…